After failing to win a medal on the vault on Sunday, Jade Carey went back to the U.S. gymnastics team’s hotel and searched for ways to shake off her disappointment. With one more event to go in these Tokyo Games, the floor exercise, she needed to bounce back, and fast.
Advice from Simone Biles, her teammate, helped.
“Let it go and move on,” Carey recalled Biles telling her. “It happened and you can’t do anything about it.”
On Monday, during a floor exercise final that was more complex than that of her peers, Carey took Biles’s advice and flipped and twisted her way to Olympic gold as if there had been no pressure on her at all.