Simone Biles says she 'should have quit way before Tokyo'

Simone Biles has said she should have quit gymnastics “way before” Tokyo 2020, where she withdrew from some events to focus on her mental health.

The 24-year-old has now admitted that the impacts of the abuse of former team doctor Larry Nassar, now serving a de facto life term without parole in prison, meant that she “should not have made another Olympic team”.

“But I was not going to let him take something I’ve worked for since I was six years old,” Biles told New York magazine. "So I pushed past that for as long as my mind and my body would let me."