‘Doing the beam for herself’: Inside Biles’ return | SamanthaSMorris
” mid-air during her vault competition, both of which caused her to pull out of the subsequent even bars, floor exercise, and the team and individual all-around events.
“Balance beam, you have that beam underneath your feet, you feel a little more secure,” says Liddick, a former Gymnastics Australia national coach and long-time personal coach to American Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shannon Miller. “And she’s [Biles] only doing single skills on the beam, therefore she’s only doing skills on one axis, it’s a lot simpler for her.”
“The big question tonight is, if [Biles] chooses to just do a simple double back dismount with no twist, will her muscle memory take over and accidentally do the twist,” says Liddick, who coached Miller through the “twisties” when the gymnast experienced them in the lead-up to the 1996 Olympics. “You’re setting it up to just do a double back, but it might automatically do a twist in there because you’ve done 10,000 repetitions [like that].
And when an athlete loses internal motivation, it can be a significant and “quite alarming” psychological hurdle, says Australian Institute of Sport mental health lead Mary Spillane.
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