Through extraordinary access to Biles, this dramatic docuseries takes on the dark side of being an elite athlete. It’s a touching plea for compassion that sets up her Olympics return beautifully
f you watched Simone Biles: Rising only to marvel at what the most decorated gymnast in history can do, that would be a couple of hours well spent. It is astonishing to see her moving through the air, rapidly contorting her body with such astounding motion that gymnastics is still having to adjust its parameters to accommodate her abilities. Moves have been named after Biles, some of which have been completed only by her.
“Your body can only function for so long before your fuses blow out,” says Biles today. She came down with a bad case of “the twisties”, in which gymnasts lose their sense of place and become disoriented, mid-air. “Most of the time, it’s unrelated to gymnastics,” notes one of her coaches, Laurent Landi, drily.
The film-makers have been given extraordinary access to the gymnast, her family and her home life. We meet everyone from her husband, the NFL player Jonathan Owens, to her mother, Nellie. We see her family gathered in front of the TV to watch her at the 2020 Olympics and see the moment that they realise things are falling apart. In the immediate aftermath of Tokyo, Biles films herself talking about shame and confusion. She admits that she “wanted to quit, like, 500,000 times”.
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