“Scary” – Gymnastics Community Offers Prayers as 33-Year-Old Star Reveals Struggles After 3 Gruesome Surgeries

Venue? – The city of love. Stage? – The grandest of all. Occasion? The return of a gymnast to the Olympics after 8 years. “I’m super, super proud,” were her words when she was interviewed by the Olympics themselves. “I was actually really emotional when I stepped in the arena,” she said. The gymnast, then 32, led Team GB in the women’s artistic gymnastics competition. In the team final, she delivered a standout performance on the uneven bars, earning the highest score of the day with a 14.933, contributing to Great Britain’s fourth-place finish, narrowly missing the podium by just 0.234 points. But behind her return, behind every swing she made at the bars, was a struggle. A struggle she now talks about. But what is it?

“This is a very personal post, but one I wanted to help raise fibroid awareness with, “ Becky Downie wrote in her recent Instagram post. “If you’d have asked me a year ago what a fibroid was, I’d have been clueless, along with many of my family and friends.” A year ago, when she was gearing up for her Olympic return, she had started her season at the Cairo World Cup in February.

She wrote, “A few months before I went to Paris, I thought I could feel a lump in my stomach. I told my medical team, but no one else was aware of what was going on. Initially, it was thought to be tight muscle, and having defined abs from training made it a bit more difficult to diagnose.” In her post, she talked of how she had to undergo an ultrasound to get the diagnosis and finally know that she is having uterine fibroids. She talked of it getting so bad for her that there was no other way for her other than to get surgery.

Having been done with surgery, she added, “I’ve never felt more grateful to be home and recovering from a surgery, this one was a big one and was pretty scary. 3/3 surgeries complete ….. 2025 please be kinder to me now !! ”

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