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Simone Biles Highlights the Importance of Mental Health After Olympic Win

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Simone Biles won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics women’s gymnastics individual all-around finals Thursday—a milestone that took as much mental health work as it did physical training.

Today, the three-time Olympian shared an image of herself meditating on the athlete bench ahead of her floor routine at yesterday’s finals—a moment that was streamed live on television and captured fans’ attention as the world awaited her latest grand performance.

She finished with an overall score of 59.566.

“Mental health matters,” she wrote on Instagram alongside the touching image.

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