He also explains how he feels gymnastics and the positive mindset it needs can help everyone in their day to day lives, whether they are athletes or not. All things he has put online before and explained in interviews, but it was interesting reading it as it was slightly more in depth than I have previously seen from him. GB Men Win Historic Silver at World Championships". BBC Sport. 29 October 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. Artistic – Men's Individual Qualification". Archived from the original on 21 August 2017 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. 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. The first half of the book is him explaining how gymnastics has impacted him and changed his life, how it has affected his behaviour and mindset and what he feels he has learnt from it.

Historic World Championships come to a close". British Gymnastics. 1 November 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. Wilson was born 17 January 1996 in Leeds to Sally and Neil Wilson [2] [6] and is the great nephew of Duncan Fearnley. [7] He has a sister, Joanna. He attended ' Farsley Farfield' Primary School and Pudsey Grangefield School. [8] He said: "I said I would stop gymnastics when I fell out of love with the process or my body does not let me do it any more, and both are true today.

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

absolutely incredible and I can thoroughly recommend it to anybody who is interested in sport or even just physical and mental wellbeing. 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.

Gray, James (16 August 2016). "Rio 2016: Who is Team GB gymnast Nile Wilson? How did he win Olympic bronze?". Daily Express. a b "ITV Dancing on Ice fans share same complaint over 2023 final as winner crowned". Manchester Evening News. 13 March 2023 . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Rio Olympics 2016: Nile Wilson wins Great Britain's first high bar medal". BBC. 16 August 2016 . Retrieved 16 August 2016. Wilson competed at the 2015 Gymnastics World Championships in Glasgow. He placed tenth all around in qualification with 88.365, but did not advance due to the two per country rule. [11] Wilson competed on three apparatus in the team final: Still Rings (14.933), Parallel Bars (15.033) and Horizontal bar (14.833), contributing to the team silver medal. [12] Wilson also qualified to the Parallel Bars final, placing 8th with a score of 15.233. [13] 2016 Summer Olympics [ edit ] Roan, Dan (10 August 2020). "Nile Wilson: British gymnasts are treated like 'pieces of meat' ". BBC Sport . Retrieved 3 November 2021.

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Nile Wilson to miss British Championships, World Cup and European Championships after surgery". BBC Sport. 20 February 2019. In 2018, Wilson was selected to represent England and compete at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia. On 5 April, he won a gold medal in the men's artistic team all-around [18] and qualified in first place for the individual all-around which he went on to win for his second gold medal. [19] He added a third gold on the horizontal bar, [20] and won silver on the rings [21] and on the parallel bars. [22]