welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am brianna keilar alongside john berman, and it is tuesday, august 3rd, and we have some good breaking news from tokyo. simone biles fighting through mental health challenges to capture the bronze medal on the balance beam, closing out her roller coaster olympic experience on a high note. i m going with she won the bronze. biles performance was a kind of victory for her and for the millions of people who suffer from mental health issues. in a moment, we re going to discuss what biles accomplished this morning with olympic gold medalist dominique dawes. bringing in coy wire in the room where it happened. oh, what a morning, coy. this was really really dramatic. john, you re a big tom brady fan, and this was like him pulling out in the first half of the game saying he didn t feel well mentally. fourth quarter, game on, i ve got my mentals right, as simone
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top of the podium, she is a competitor, but facing her fears, getting that monkey off her back, and stepping out and competing again, and facing the twisties was something that people were uncertain about. i m so pleased with her performance. i m sure she is as well, and i have been up since 4:00 this morning, and just sitting at the edge of my seat, cheering her on. were you afraid? i was afraid watching her. i want to know what you as an olympic gymnast felt. were you afraid? i wasn t afraid watching her because she wasn t going to put herself in a situation where she was going to possibly injure herself. if she didn t have the confidence and feel as if she was secure in doing the routine she and her coach had set out to do, she wouldn t be out there on the podium. i felt satisfied, and even when she earned the bronze medal, it took me back to my 1996 olympic games, after falling in the all around to come back for the floor individual finals and i earned a bronze medal, and to th