"It was so, so brave": Simone Biles' doc director on the gymnast pulling out of Tokyo Olympics

It's not the word you would expect to be associated with one of the greatest athletes of all time. After suffering from a bout of "the twisties" — a disorienting sensation in which one's brain and body don't align during a mid-air move — during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Simone Biles, the most decorated Olympic gymnast of all time, elected to bow out of the competition. In "Simone Biles: Rising," Netflix's docuseries about Biles' life and career, she explicitly refers to her twisties at Tokyo as a "trauma response" to the abuse she endured and its subsequent fallout. "She's got more tools in her toolkit now for handling those challenges," Katie Walsh, director of "Simone Biles: Rising," told Salon. And it's her "why," you know, this next chapter in her career that I don't think she necessarily thought was going to be part of her career — going into Tokyo.