{"id":179318,"date":"2021-12-15T00:26:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=179318"},"modified":"2021-12-15T00:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:56:12","slug":"gymnast-simone-biles-named-time-magazines-2021-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/gymnast-simone-biles-named-time-magazines-2021-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnast Simone Biles named Time Magazine&#8217;s 2021 Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York, Dec 14 (AFP): Simone Biles was named Time&#8217;s 2021 Athlete of the Year, the magazine announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world&#8217;s most decorated gymnast was hailed for putting her mental health first when she withdrew from four event finals at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biles, a four-time Olympic medalist, later revealed that she suffered from what gymnasts called &#8220;the twisties &#8211; when you lose the sense of space and dimension in the air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the setback, the 24-year-old managed to earn a team all-around silver and a bronze in balance beam at the Tokyo Games.<br \/>\nA month after the Tokyo Olympics, Biles gave an emotional testimony at a US senate hearing into former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biles along with hundreds of athletes accused the FBI, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee for failing to stop the abuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, Dec 14 (AFP): Simone Biles was named Time&#8217;s 2021 Athlete of the Year, the magazine announced. The world&#8217;s most decorated gymnast was hailed for putting her mental health first when she withdrew from four event finals at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, a four-time Olympic medalist, later revealed that she suffered from what gymnasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}