Gymnast Skye Blakely says working on her mental health has helped put her in the mix for the 2024 Olympics.
Skye Blakely competes on the floor during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Friday, May 31, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. – Skye Blakely didn't want to hear it. Just like most teenagers whenever their parents offer to help.
Instead, she left St. Louis in tears after her elbow gave way during vault warmups, tearing the ulnar collateral ligament and ending any shot she had at making it to Tokyo.“It was traumatic and I had to have surgery,” Blakely said. “So that was a big shift in my world, and for while it was hard for me to understand, and it just really hurt my feelings in my heart.”
Blakely jotted down her target score for each event in the Notes app on her phone before competing. She did it on three of them, including a powerful and precise Cheng vault that left her “shocked” when the 15 flashed. Everything that was taken away from her when her elbow gave out in St. Louis is now back on the table. She's trying not to get ahead of herself. That wasn't always the case. She admits she put pressure on herself in 2021, maybe too much. She understands now that it “just wasn't my moment.”
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