Former USA Gymnast Dominique Dawes on Simone Biles, athlete mental health 

Glad these Olympian Super Stars are coming out to support Simone Biles because all the racist hate I've been seeing across social media is ridiculous

Dominique Dawes has been my favorite gymnast all my life. She didn’t disappoint in this interview.

Dominique is the reason I started watching gymnastics! I loveeeeee her ❤

This woman NEEDS to be our National Team Coordinator. Period.

Thank you Dominique Dawes for your support of Simone Biles. So many athletes have criticized and condemned her for her decision to put her mental health first. Plus what no one is reporting except Yahoo Sports is that by her pulling out she enabled the rest of the team to win silver. Her bad/low score after the vault hurt the team and if she had continued getting low scores, the team may not have gotten a medal of any kind at all. Simone herself said that was a factor.

Thought Simone did the right thing & put her mental health first. Takes a brave person to admit she has a problem. Hope she gets the help she deserves. She comes across as a lovely person.

She is still “awesome Dawesome”.

I had a hard core crush on Dominique she is still beutiful

I am proud of Simone for listening to her body👏🏾

Dominique Dawes my all time favorite gymnast! When I first saw Biles abilities, she Biles, reminded me of the great Dominique Dawes. Dominique was strong, powerful, quick but solid she also had grace within all of that strength. To know she has 4 children and her own gymnastic Academy... I love happy endings💖 P.S. no offense but in 1996, Dawes was the goat for me in spite of all she had to endure back then. For me, she was the absolute best of the 7.

prayers for this awesome person. we ❤ u goat.

I think what Simone is doing for the others is awesome. She has her medals, but this team is ready to take o er and she knows it and now they have a chance to make their own shadow. Bravo!

People judging what they are clueless about. They don't even understand that doing what Simone does can be deadly. They compare this to soccer, baseball blah blah blah. Yet they can't even go to the gym for an hour. Adults saying awful things about Simone are pathetic and clearly have achieved nothing in their individual lives. If ur head is not in the game u could die or seriously injure yourself nxa. Get that over ur big fat bellies.

Also one of my biggest crushes back then!

Wow! THEE Dominique Dawes 🐐 .. she summed that up so eloquently. Great interview!

Yes !!!!! Dominique !!!

Imagine other nations they have less and stuffer much more they have to worry about food and a roof we worry about small stuff

This recap of the event is completely different then what came out in the Australian news the same day lol

Both them are queens! Hope to see Simone Biles in the next Olympics

She still looks great

Simone has nothing to prove to anyone. she is proven already. no one is perfect you did a lot already in this country. I respect your decision Thank you. you are the Best of the Best 🙏🏻

And it's Suni Lee !

I think they call it “Team USA” and NOT “Simone biles USA” maybe the team captain should be the coach and not a contestant. These are humans and NOT animals like lions that have a male lion at the head of the Tribe. The team captain should not have so much responsibility and maybe there should be a backup captain too. In any case these Olympian’s should have a mental evaluation to prove they are capable of such a responsibility because many Olympian’s from other nations have allot of pressure on them to WIN and are shun in there own nations when they don’t WIN. Its NOT just Simone its the entire Olympic system. These participants have allot of pressure not just to represent but to WIN. And I think America should take the rains and point this out to other nations that is NOT about WINNING but celebrating human ability to be your best. Its NOT just about humans but the machines and devices we are building and testing these devices we test in the olympics to help humans perform their best.

2:15 shameless plug 😄

and now eveybody is worried about her mental health but before only win win win !!

Thank you!

I will always love her and am so proud of her ! She showed great courage to go back out there on the beam which is so difficult, and win a medal! Those who say otherwise have no idea what they r talking about… they just don’t know how hard it is to preform with so much riding on her… she will always be the Goat!! She doesn’t have to prove herself anymore!! God Bless her future and her marriage!!❤❤❤

This is an imposter!...not the real Dominique Dawes!

Listen she is a very smart girl. She knows where she is more than anyone else. She saw a set up in the mix. They where setting her up to have the biggest failure of her life and she spotted it. Sho she peacefully pulled out.

GOAT? Huuuum. "The 12 P's", Pressure: You mean Harriet Tubman type pressure; You mean, Martin Luther King type pressure; You mean, the Civil Rights Riders type pressure; You mean PFC Vanessa Gillien type pressure, when commanders would not listen to her claims of sexual assault; You mean LTC Karen Wagner, deployed to Afghanistan 2 times type pressure. O... Okey. Now I see.

👌👽#SIMONEBILES👽👽👽👽👽

Of course goats feel terrible pressure. Just ask top athletes like Jordan, Brady, woods, Billy goat

How bout we not call anyone “the goat” until they have been retired for quite a while? It would be like the academy awards handing out lifetime achievement awards to child actors. What can you do after that and NOT miss expectations.

Love Dominique. ❤️

Dominique stayed out of the lime light.

So they had to get another black person to opine on this, btw she put the Goat on her leotard, so invited more pressure and then she quit.

Still The Greatest Of All Time. 🥰 Simone you are such an inspiration. Please take care yourself . No Medal is worth your life. And don’t mind the ungrateful Americans. We your international fans love you and are thankful for what you’ve done for the sport. 🥰

Daughters of Zion live according to the scriptures and it will go well with you

The diagnosis should be: Ms. Biles is suffering the unseen affects of COVID-19 Virus. Dizziness, mental acuity, balance, depth perception, depression, sleep deprivation, depression. All the things that the School Teachers, Healthcare Workers, and Doctors display. An Olympic Athlete depends on not only physical ability but mental acuity. While her Coaches took good care of her physical condition they neglected the Mental condition and need for Brain Food, such as Omega-3.

4:38 sorry girl, you can't say about a quitter that she is generations above her competition when she chocked and quit. In Gymnastics especially, you have a lot of people who performed amazingly at home but who fail when they are put under pressure. In those type of situations, the one who win are not the most talented but the ones who can let their talent shine under amazing pressure and unfortunately Biles caved.

I don’t have a problem with people listening to there body’s.And mental health issues I just hope this doesn’t become a trend and people decide just to quit because there having a bad day. I get it , but she had teammates that were relying on her.

What I don’t understand why didn’t Simone talk with someone before getting dressed with her team so they would have been more prepared as a team that she wasn’t going to compete in the team event? Instead Simone tells her teammates on the floor with on these eyes on them wondering what the heck going on? What Simone did to her teammates wasn’t fair & I’m sure they’re parents didn’t appreciate the way Simone handle the situation either? This is no way to handle a situation as a team leader as Simone is & is highly respected in gymnastics! I personally think this whole situation could have been handled a lot better by Simone! What would have happened if one of the other gymnastics done this to Simone at the last minute how do you think Simone would feel? That’s a lot of pressure on the rest of the teammates to step up & fill a big void! I’m not blaming Simone for her mental health issues! I just saying it should have been handled so much better than it was for the teammates! All the best to Simone 🙏🇺🇸

I think the haters threatened these TOP ATHELEATES because of who the are. Black women who were the best in their field. Back in the day they did the same thing to Black athletes because years later they told there story of how they were berated, threatened and belittled. Think about it. Black women deal with uber stresses daily and have since the beginning of time. My heart goes out to them all. Even the ones with mental illness, but I think this goes deeper than than that. Just my opinion.

" I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

What is the difference between "mental health" and psychiatric disorders?

meanwhile oldest female gymnast retires at age of 46

This is not brave. This was very weak. She will regret this for the rest of her life. Supporting this quitter mentality is why America is slipping down the rankings in everything. The mental stress is what athletes sign up for. It's part of competition. Mental toughness is not a clichè it's a real thing. Supporting this is ridiculous.

this aint bashing. truth is, she (Simone) is just too hyped. she was being put in the pedestal more than the many other strong athletes representing the USA, which is already partial to begin with. how the media pushed and labeled her as the 'best' made her lose the ability to win (especially after realizing that her competition were doing better) and the courage not to quit (regardless of the result). it is very easy to say that she has become mentally unfit, as the reason of her pulling out. true or not, however, isnt it the same for many years already that she was being 'hailed' as the best? the pressure should no longer be an issue to her in the first place. at the end of the day, she just really fears losing all I can say. i still remember before how Kelly Strugg kept her composure with an injury and struggled to still pursue completing the last vault (and unfortunately suffered even more after), but gave the USA its first team gold! she has the spirit of of true sportsperson. im not saying Simone is not, but her quiting is very questionable to me frankly. Just saying..... Yes, mental health is still everything... no questions about that. but i doubt if she (along with the rest) havent gone mental check pass before the games, even more so, way before being selected as team USA for that matter. its just the fear of losing, i can tell.

Why are you defending her quitting on her team mates? There is no 'I' in team. She chocked and then she quit because "it wasn't fun anymore." There's NOTHING admiral about that.

I like them to interview aly instead...not so much self plugging.

Simone should never again be put in the same Category as Michael Jordan!

If you don't apply pressure.. you will never produce a great. Good but not great.

Alot of people are saying that Biden should quit the presidency and focus on his mental health. I disagree...

So is the Silver Medal now Considered a Participation Award? Since she received one with her teammates after Quitting on them!

If you can't handle pressure don't compete.nobody is forcing these athletes compete

Can't be a GOAT if you're a quitter...

She became Woke, then became a Joke....

So why just athletes deserve mental health breaks? What about other pressure packed professions who deal with life and death like piolets, policeman, surgeons? They can just walk away in the middle of action?

Simone Biles quit cause she knew she had competition with Suni she knew Suni was gonna beat her.

I'm Boycotting the woke Olympics.

Disturbingly weak.