Simone Biles acknowledged the Larry Nassar scandal and its subsequent fallout was weighing heavily on her as she prepared to compete in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
"If you looked at everything I've gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team," the four-time Olympic gold medalist said to Camonghne Felix of The Cut.
"I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry Nassar was in the media for two years. It was too much. But I was not going to let him take something I've worked for since I was six years old.