Simone Biles has said she is '50-50' on competing at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, telling CNN Sports in an interview aired on Thursday, 29 April, that the LA28 home Games are on her mind but that a looming 'time crunch' and her mental health will ultimately decide whether she returns.
Biles is already the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history, with 11 medals, and has lived more than one sporting lifetime in the space of a decade. She withdrew from multiple events at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021 after experiencing the 'twisties,' a terrifying loss of spatial awareness in mid‑air, and later spoke openly about the pressure she felt and the mental health crisis that followed. She returned to Olympic competition in Paris in 2024, where she last competed, but the idea of stretching her career through another four‑year cycle is a different calculation altogether.
