Sports and Mental Health
4 min readSep 3, 2021
The beauty of Simone Biles’s Olympic performance 2021 is not only that she had the courage to speak up about mental health challenges, pause, and still earn a bronze, but also that: (a) she took initiative before a crisis; (b) she had support of coaches and loved ones; and © she had the ability to recognize that her identity does not depend on public perception.