Simone Biles Reveals Moment She Decided to Withdraw From Tokyo Olympics in Powerful New Footage

Simone Biles knew immediately after stumbling on a warm-up vault at the Toyko Olympics that something was wrong -- seriously wrong.

The seven-time Olympic medalist revealed the moment she decided to withdraw from the 2020 Summer Games in a new Netflix docu-series called "Simone Biles Rising."

Biles recalled how she landed awkwardly after the vault, stumbling forward. The NBC broadcast noted that it appeared Biles got "lost in the air," and she was later seen hugging teammates and wishing them well as she decided to bow out of the team competition.

In the new documentary, Biles said she knew immediately that it was a problem she could not recover from immediately.

“As soon as I did it, I was like ‘You’ve got to be [expletive] me, like right now, really right now, we’re going to do this?’ ” Biles said, via People magazine .

“I knew from that very moment that it wasn’t just, like, one time and done, cause I feel like you can feel it in your head.”

The docu-series showed Biles calling her mother in Houston to tell her about the decision to pull out.

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“To me it felt silent, almost like death, and if I could have ran out of that stadium I would have,” Biles told the camera. “But I was like, keep it cool, calm, collected, don’t freak anybody out, let’s go over and be like, ‘We’re done here’.’ “

Biles was able to move beyond the mental health struggles that struck in Tokyo and will be returning to the big stage this summer at the Paris Olympics. At 27, she became the oldest U.S. gymnast to compete in the Olympics since 1950.