Director of Netflix's Simone Biles documentary: 'It's awesome' to see her up close and personal

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Katie Walsh got the opportunity of a lifetime: following Simone Biles throughout the Paris Olympics.

The 27-year-old gymnast was making her return to the grand stage after she was forced to miss several Olympic events in 2021 due to experiencing the "twisties." She won just one medal in Tokyo, a bronze.

The pressure was on in Paris, but Walsh, the director of "Simone Biles: Rising" on Netflix, said she was "calm, cool and collected."

"But I'm sure she was feeling the pressure," Walsh said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. "I think it would be impossible not to. As much as she does her very best, and has done a really good job of managing all of the outside expectations and sort of tasks on her, she's still the face of the Olympics and everyone was there to see her compete and everyone was there to just see her, period."

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Simone Biles of the United States smiles during the national anthem with her gold medal during the medal ceremony for the vault on the first day of gymnastics event finals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Bercy Arena in Paris on Aug. 3, 2024. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)

Biles got her revenge, taking home three golds and a silver in Paris. Of course, she won four golds in Rio in 2016 and failed to medal in a fifth event in Paris. All in all, Walsh said she considered it a very successful Olympics.

"She had said to me, I mean, we as the outsiders put all these expectations for her to just win everything all the time. But for her, I know team and all around were so important, that was what she was really focused on. And that was where she