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Simone Biles Says Representing Abuse Survivors Is Part of Why She’s Returning to the Olympics

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Today about what her return to the Olympic stage means. “I knew I had more to give to the sport for myself and I felt like I had a purpose…God called me,” the , four-time gold medalist revealed. “I just feel like [with] everything that happened, I just had to come back to the sport, to be a voice, to have change happen.”Biles said representing the gymnasts of the Nassar period is one of the factors motivating her to continue. “I feel like, if there weren't a remaining survivor in the sport, they would have just brushed it to the side.

But since I'm still here and I have quite a social media presence and platform, they have to do something,” she said. “So I feel like coming back, gymnastics just wasn't the only purpose I was supposed to.

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