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She Has a Love-Hate Relationship With the Beam

Ever since she took home a bronze medal on the balance beam at the Rio Olympics in 2016, Simone has struggled with her confidence on the beam. Even more than three years later, she confessed to USA Today Sports that 2016 affected her feelings about the beam in a way she wasn't sure she could recover from — but she's definitely made progress. "It took a while," she said. "I have this love-hate relationship with the beam. I've always told myself, 'If you hate beam, the beam will hate you.'"