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Simone Biles Says She Remains Motivated Despite Constantly Getting Unfair Valuation From Judges

Simone Biles Says She Remains Motivated Despite Constantly Getting Unfair Valuation From Judges

The star athlete, however, said she remains motivated by internal forces and refuses to allow scoring discrepancies to hold her back, Yahoo reported.

“I just want to see, before I hang my grips and leo up, how far can I go,” she said. “I feel like we’re right on the brink of that.”

Biles said she remembers being angry in 2016 because people were disappointed when she earned a Bronze medal. But the veteran athlete adds that she no longer cares about what people think.

“I was so happy with my Bronze, but I couldn’t be happy because nobody was happy for me,” she said. “I felt alone in that aspect. But now, going into this year, this time it’s really for me. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody. And that feels nice.”


The Facebook Watch series has already revealed many other interesting aspects of Biles’ life.  As Blavity previously reported, Biles’ boyfriend, Jonathan Owens, revealed on the series that he didn’t know who the Olympian was when they first met. 

“Her work ethic was really the first thing that caught my eye. I never really watched gymnastics before I first started talking to her,” he said. “When I met her, I honestly didn’t know who she was. It was just kind of like, ‘Oh, she’s got a lot of followers. You know, she must be pretty good or something.”

The world champion gymnast also opened up about her upbringing in foster care and having been adopted by her grandparents.

“I don’t remember a lot about foster care, but I definitely knew that we had been taken from our biological mom and then you just think you’re going to go back to her,” she said in the episode titled “Who Am I?”

“We were very fortunate that we got to stay with our siblings because a lot of the time you either get re-grouped to home to home to home or you and your siblings get split up,” the superstar added.

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