As someone who has been supporting Nile, initially with his gymnastics career for around 7 years now, this was a really interesting read! I really felt Nile’s passion for his career and family and found it refreshingly honest in terms of addiction and mental health. NetGalley, Lauren Hudspeth

Wilson enjoyed a successful junior career, becoming the first Briton to win five gold medals at the European Junior Gymnastics Championship in 2014 before representing England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he won horizontal bar and team gold as well as silver in the parallel bars and all-around bronze. Rio Olympics 2016: Nile Wilson wins Great Britain's first high bar medal". BBC. 16 August 2016 . Retrieved 16 August 2016. With My Story, Nile takes the reader though his celebrated career as he shares his brutal training regimens, his battles with addiction as well as his struggles with mental health that unfortunately goes hand-in-hand with being an elite level athlete. Nile writes of the dangers that come with measuring your self-worth against your career accomplishments and your level of performance.

Commonwealth Games: England's Nile Wilson wins all-around gold, James Hall silver". BBC Sport. 7 April 2018. absolutely incredible and I can thoroughly recommend it to anybody who is interested in sport or even just physical and mental wellbeing. I'm much more proud that five months after getting metal shoved in my spine I was performing at world-class gymnastics than any medal I won. People tell me I had some career and it was a crazy, bonkers time and I loved every single moment of it.

Historic World Championships come to a close". British Gymnastics. 1 November 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) [2] is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. [3] In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries. [4] In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart. [5] Personal life [ edit ] Despite experiencing those dark days, Nile comes across as an optimist with an overwhelmingly positive message about how crucial it is to ask for help when you need it so you can avoid the pitfalls of self-pity that comes with self-destructive behavior. The second half of the book is a 21-day challenge, that is meant to teach you how to do a handstand by the end of the challenge. The weeks are explained clearly, the exercises are shown well and overall the layout of the challenge works well.

Wilson was crowned British Junior Champion in March 2014 and received the Young Sportsman male award at the Leeds Sports Awards.

'It was tough to accept that I wasn’t going to be the athlete I once was'

Leeds' Olympic and Commonwealth Games hero Nile Wilson retires through injury". www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk . Retrieved 15 January 2021. I am now in tears writing this. Everyone that has watched, supported or found inspiration from my gymnastics, thank you so much.” Wilson became the first British gymnast to win an Olympic medal on the horizontal bar Sometime during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, my fiancee stumbled across Nile Wilson’s YouTube channel. Wilson, a British Olympic medalist, would gather his friends and family and shoot videos of them competing in various gymnastics-based challenges in a variety of environments. It was a bit of fun and comedy for us during some of the darkest days of 2020. His story isn't an easy one, as he has suffered from mental illness issues and addiction. It's definitely a tough read at times. And more than anything, Nile is strong in his encouragement of others to ask for help when they need it. GB Men Win Historic Silver at World Championships". BBC Sport. 29 October 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2016.