Last night I posted about Simone Biles’s superpower of knowing where she is at every nanosecond while in midair, and how that power suddenly failed.
This is what it must feel like:
The mind-body disconnect of “the twisties” can be dangerous, even for someone of Simone Biles’s caliber.
She performs some of the world’s hardest skills, including a double-twisting double tuck dismount off beam and a triple-twisting double tuck on floor. https://t.co/lhG0jzuftE pic.twitter.com/LiMElrNn1O— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 28, 2021