Simone Biles shares health update: ‘Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card this week’ 10%

By Amber Raiken0%

6/6/2026, 2:20:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Hindsight Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 11.2% saturation with 40 hits. Analysis detected 377 faulty-reasoning hits from 356 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.1% and a BS Rank of 10% (19,694 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.

Simone Biles has revealed she’s in the midst of recovering after a recent health scare. 
The Olympic gymnast, 29, posted a statement Saturday on her Instagram Story, alongside a picture of multiple hospital bracelets on her wrist. 
However, she did not disclose what landed her in the hospital. 
‘I’m not one to normally share things like this because I value privacy in today’s age. 
But almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card earlier this week,’ she wrote. 
‘This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life. 
Especially since Jonathan [Owens] was in Indy for practices,’ she continued, referring to her husband’s preseason NFL training for the Indianapolis Colts. 
‘I’ll be here,’ she captioned another picture of her bed, alongside a screenshot of a monitor that read her current resting heart rate, 126 beats per minute. 
*The Independent* has contacted a representative for Biles for comment. 
Biles has previously spoken out about navigating health conditions throughout her career. 
Last year, she recalled how competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she won three gold medals and one silver, took a toll on her body. 
‘I went back to the village, took the elevator, and my body literally collapsed,’ she told *L'Equipe*, the *Associated Press*’s French sports outlet, in April 2025. 
‘I was sick for 10 days.’ 
‘The other day, we were sprinting in the garden with friends,’ she added. 
‘I had aches and pains for three days.’ 
Biles withdrew from some of the finals events during the 2021 Summer Olympics after suffering from “twisties,” a condition in which athletes experience a loss of spatial awareness mid-air, leaving them at risk of injury when they land. 
After she changed the difficulty of her rotation midair  correcting her body position to avoid an accident  there was speculation about what might have been causing her struggles. 
However, she insisted that she didn’t have a physical issue, adding, “No, no injury, thankfully. 
That’s why I took a step back, because I didn’t want to do something silly out there and get injured.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 1.0%The Independent: 2.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Amber Raiken: 1.4%The Independent: 3.2%Availability Heuristic7.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 8.4%Amber Raiken: 1.7%The Independent: 0.6%Hindsight Bias8.4%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.7%The Independent: 2.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 3.9%Amber Raiken: 2.8%The Independent: 8.2%Framing Effect3.9%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 4.5%Amber Raiken: 0.5%The Independent: 0.6%Status Quo Bias4.5%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 7.6%Amber Raiken: 3.0%The Independent: 2.4%Optimism Bias7.6%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Amber Raiken: 1.1%The Independent: 12.2%Negativity Bias7.0%This article: 5.6%Amber Raiken: 0.6%The Independent: 2.5%Self-Serving Bias5.6%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 6.2%Amber Raiken: 0.6%The Independent: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 1.4%The Independent: 2.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.6%Amber Raiken: 1.1%The Independent: 1.5%Recency Bias7.6%This article: 7.3%Amber Raiken: 2.1%The Independent: 0.4%Primacy Effect7.3%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 2.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.8%The Independent: 3.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 11.0%Amber Raiken: 3.1%The Independent: 6.5%Appeal to Emotion11.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 8.4%Amber Raiken: 0.9%The Independent: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.4%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.7%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 11.2%Amber Raiken: 1.9%The Independent: 2.2%Anecdotal11.2%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.6%The Independent: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.6%The Independent: 2.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 3.9%Amber Raiken: 0.8%The Independent: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection3.9%This article: 6.2%Amber Raiken: 1.6%The Independent: 7.8%Biased Writer Voice6.2%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 2.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Amber Raiken: 0.0%The Independent: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

356 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers53%attributed speech168writer words
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178 attributed words95% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Biased Writer Voice-13.1 ptsWriter: 13.1%Simone Biles: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.3 ptsWriter: 8.3%Simone Biles: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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