Olympian Levi Jung-Ruivivar to step back from competition for eating disorder treatment

American-born gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar, who represented the Philippines astatine past year's Paris Olympics, announced plans to measurement backmost from contention to code her health.

She said she would statesman attraction for an eating disorder.

"Hi everyone, I wanted to travel connected present contiguous to stock immoderate profoundly idiosyncratic information. I person decided to redshirt this play and instrumentality a little permission of lack from Stanford (just the wintertime quarter) to heal from an eating upset I person been struggling with. I volition instrumentality to schoolhouse and grooming earlier the outpouring 4th starts," Jung-Ruivivar wrote successful a connection via a collaborative Instagram station with the Stanford gymnastics account.

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Levi Jung-Ruivivar during the 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships astatine SAP Center Aug. 25, 2023. (Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports)

Jung-Ruivivar, 18, is simply a pupil astatine Stanford University. She added that her conflict with the upset has wounded her diversion vocation and her clip arsenic a student.

"My clip astatine Stanford has been everything I dreamed of and more. I person been loving gymnastics and schoolhouse and some person been going well, nevertheless I felt the upset was infringing connected my quality to afloat bask these aspects of my life; it was pulling an abundant magnitude of my intelligence and carnal vigor distant from the things I clasp dear," the prima gymnast wrote.

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Jung-Ruivivar admitted she experienced "lots of trepidation" arsenic she weighed whether to talk retired astir her backstage battle. But she determined it was "important" for her to stock what she was grappling with.

Levi Jung-Ruivivar competes successful the uneven bars during the women's elder part of the U.S. Classic astatine Maverik Center July 30, 2022, successful West Valley City, Utah. (Alex Goodlett/Getty Images)

"As an elite athlete, I felt it was captious to halt the harm it was doing to my assemblage and caput by seeking help," she added.

Jung-Ruivivar besides expressed appreciation for the enactment she's received from loved ones and coaches, adding she looks "forward to getting to relish each of this and much arsenic I flooded my eating disorder."

Levi Jung-Ruivivar astatine the Mixed Cup March 20, 2022. (Marijan Murat/picture confederation via Getty Images)

Fellow gymnast Hezly Rivera showed enactment for Jung-Ruivivar, penning "i emotion you Levi," beneath the societal media post. Gymnast Skye Blakely added a brace of bosom emoji successful the remark section.

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In a abstracted societal media station directed astatine Jung-Ruivivar, Stanford University wrote, "supporting you each measurement of the way."

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