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Simone Biles Wears Walking Boot After Injuring Calf at 2024 Olympics: ‘It’s Just Precautionary’
Simone Biles explained why she was wearing a walking boot on her left foot during a post-Olympics interview after injuring her calf amid the 2024 Games.
Following her final competition at the Games on Monday, August, 5, Simone sat down for an interview with NBC’s Mike Tirico and was wearing a walking boot on her left foot. While footage of her warmup fall played in the background, Simone admitted, “I feel like elite athletes are pretty tough, so we’re just, through pain or pleasure, we’re ready for whatever. Her experience at the 2024 Games was much different than what she went through in Tokyo in 2021, during which she withdrew from a majority of events after experiencing a mental block called the “twisties.” Although the Ohio native has admitted she once didn’t know if she’d ever return to gymnastics again, she persevered and continued to rack up the medals during her comeback.
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