On her Instagram story on Friday, Biles detailed her struggles in training with the "twisties," a gymnastics term for when a gymnast`s body and mind seemingly stop working together. "My mind and body are simply not in sync," Biles wrote in one of her story slides. "For anyone saying I quit. I didn`t quit."
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