Simone Biles tweets support to Mikaela Shiffrin after she exits 2nd Olympics event

Seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles, who suffered her own setbacks at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics, is exhibiting help for U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who on Tuesday suffered her second early exit from a Beijing Olympics competitors.

Biles tagged Shiffrin in a tweet Tuesday, posting her deal with alongside three white hearts.

Biles, 24, went into the Tokyo Olympics with the strain of being on monitor to win an unprecedented six gold medals, with the purpose of changing into the primary girl since 1968 to win back-to-back titles within the all-around gymnastics competitors. As an alternative, citing psychological well being struggles, Biles withdrew from the group competitors in addition to a number of particular person competitions, leaving the 2020 Video games with two medals: a silver and a bronze.

“I actually do really feel like I’ve the burden of the world on my shoulders at occasions,” Biles wrote on Instagram during the Summer Olympics. “I do know I brush it off and make it look like strain does not have an effect on me however rattling generally it is laborious hahaha! The olympics isn’t any joke!”

Like Biles, Shiffrin, 26, entered the Beijing Olympics with the burden of excessive expectations and the strain of being an American Olympic star.

The Colorado native and two-time Olympic gold medalist is one medal away from tying the file for many Olympic medals by an American feminine Alpine skier — 4. She is 2 gold medals away from holding the file for many golds ever by a feminine Alpine skier — additionally 4.

Shiffrin fell throughout her first run within the big slalom Monday, disqualifying her from the occasion.

On Tuesday, Shiffrin missed the fourth gate in her slalom run, the occasion the place she received her first Olympic gold in 2014.

After the accident, she sat on the aspect of the hill, together with her head in her palms, for minutes.

“I’ve by no means been on this place earlier than,” Shiffrin stated after the autumn, according to the Associated Press. “And I don’t know methods to deal with it.”

Previous to the beginning of the Beijing Olympics, Shiffrin stated she had watched how Biles dealt with her personal pressure-cooker surroundings on the Tokyo Olympics and famous that for some Olympians, the notion is, “It must be gold or else that’s an enormous disappointment.”

Talking of Biles’ expertise, Shiffrin told the AP, “It even went a step past that. It wouldn’t have been a ‘disappointment;’ folks simply didn’t even take into account it a chance. And what I do know from that sort of strain is: It’s not straightforward to win. Ever.”

On Twitter, Biles additionally highlighted one other facet of the strain Olympic athletes face: what occurs after a supposed failure.

Biles retweeted a submit that learn, “I do not know, shaming folks simply because they did not carry out properly on the Olympics appears like the other of why we supposedly have the Olympics within the first place.”

Shiffrin’s boyfriend, fellow skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who’s competing for Norway in Beijing, requested for followers to help Shiffrin. He shared a photograph on Instagram of Shiffrin sitting on the snow after her fall within the slalom run.

“If you take a look at this image you may make up so many statements, meanings and ideas. Most of you in all probability take a look at it saying: “she has misplaced it”, “she will be able to’t deal with the strain” or “what occurred?”… Which makes me pissed off, as a result of all I see is a prime athlete doing what a prime athlete does!,” he wrote. “It’s part of the sport and it occurs. The strain all of us placed on people within the sports activities are monumental, so let’s give the identical quantity of help again.. It’s all concerning the stability and we’re simply regular human beings!!”

Shiffrin continues to be anticipated to compete within the super-G on Thursday, the downhill on Feb. 14 and the mixed on Feb. 17.