Olympian Jordan Chiles Says She and Simone Biles ‘Understand Each Other,’ Ask About Mental Health
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00:00 I definitely can say at the beginning of the year.
00:03 Towards so after my college season,
00:07 it took me a while to really like
00:10 understand if I really wanted to go to the Olympics or not
00:13 because I didn't like my brain was there but it wasn't
00:17 because I felt like if I go back,
00:20 what if I disappoint people if I go back,
00:22 they're going to think I need to do this that and the other.
00:23 So where that motto, I'm not girl came from was really,
00:26 you know, obviously Beyonce herself has said it.
00:29 That was one of her songs and you know,
00:31 and just seeing the resilience she had within herself to
00:35 become this amazing person, right?
00:37 She didn't have to
00:38 look back on other people's opinions.
00:40 She didn't have to do any of those things and kind of just
00:42 kept to herself.
00:43 So the pressure kind of weared off right now.
00:47 I'm just you know, I don't have to prove to anybody.
00:49 I'm always forever.
00:51 I'm going to be an Olympian whether I make the team or
00:53 don't make the team.
00:54 So I just really been taking that into, you know,
00:57 consideration and just again,
00:59 I'm not girl.
01:00 I'm just been living life doing everything that I can to stay
01:03 focused and also taking a day by day.
01:06 That's the best thing that any person can do right now,
01:08 whether it's with a sport, not a sport,
01:11 like just take it day by day.
01:12 I would say this, you only have one life to live.
01:15 We don't have nine lives like cats.
01:16 So yeah, we live it to the fullest as much as we can for
01:20 sure.
01:20 I really didn't like talk to her about it.
01:23 I mean, I brought it up, you know, some days there are
01:26 better than others when you're at practice.
01:28 So I think the real thing was we understand each other
01:32 whether we do have to talk to each other or not, you know,
01:34 we'll ask each other for okay,
01:36 especially, you know,
01:38 mental health is such a huge thing right now.
01:40 So we want to make sure everybody's okay in each and
01:42 every way,
01:43 but I really when it came to that I kind of kept that to
01:46 myself.
01:47 It was more so of like I told my parents or my siblings
01:51 because I really didn't know I was like,
01:53 what do I do?
01:55 Yeah, once it got closer.
01:58 I was like, nah, this is what I'm doing.
01:59 This is how we put everything into this.