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The poor girl from Utah that won silver on the vault had to almost apologize and basque isn’t the glory of Biles for her quitting and allowing her the opportunity to compete. Strange how almost every interview this girl had she had to bestow so much credit on the quitter.
She is from Arizona - born and raised there - not Utah. As is the woman who won Gold on the floor skill. Biles, at herself, would have won all the golds. Sunisa Lee said as much when she stated that the most any of them could hope for was silver before Biles quit. It is just a fact. There is no one near Biles level and may never be again.
She is from Arizona - born and raised there - not Utah. As is the woman who won Gold on the floor skill. Biles, at herself, would have won all the golds. Sunisa Lee said as much when she stated that the most any of them could hope for was silver before Biles quit. It is just a fact. There is no one near Biles level and may never be again.
It’s appropriate to say someone if from “XYZ” if they are a collegiate athlete. Akin to a QB being from Notre Dame or Alabama which means they attended that school are were notable athlete representing it while not being from there.
why would she be allowed to compete if she's having equilibrium problems?.....she should have been sent home a couple weeks ago. Her career is done.
There will always be a convenient excuse to explain away anything.
She didn't do well because she couldn't take her drugs. She dropped out because of mental health issues. She was able to compete because she lowered the difficulty of her routine. On and on and on.
And anyone that dares to say anything about Simone that doesn't glorify her, is just a mean-spirited, 'hateful racist.' This is why her teammates and the media keep gushing over her, because they are petrified that if they don't go along with the program, they will be shamed and crucified.
Like I said before, she quit because she couldn't handle the pressure that she brought onto herself. She then uses the convenient 'mental health' cop-out excuse, knowing very well that many people will automatically side with her. Despite her denials, she was bothered because she knew in her heart she quit. You don't go from anointing yourself the GOAT and wearing GOAT themed attire at the trials, to suddenly having a 'mental health' crisis at the Olympics.
Her ego therefore took a humongous hit, and the only way to salvage this embarrassment and shame was to make one last appearance in an individual event. It's no coincidence it so happened to be the beam, on the very last day of gymnastics competition. What better way to craft the narrative of a 'courageous' comeback performance than that.
There will always be a convenient excuse to explain away anything.
She didn't do well because she couldn't take her drugs. She dropped out because of mental health issues. She was able to compete because she lowered the difficulty of her routine. On and on and on.
And anyone that dares to say anything about Simone that doesn't glorify her, is just a mean-spirited, 'hateful racist.' This is why her teammates and the media keep gushing over her, because they are petrified that if they don't go along with the program, they will be shamed and crucified.
Like I said before, she quit because she couldn't handle the pressure that she brought onto herself. She then uses the convenient 'mental health' cop-out excuse, knowing very well that many people will automatically side with her. Despite her denials, she was bothered because she knew in her heart she quit. You don't go from anointing yourself the GOAT and wearing GOAT themed attire at the trials, to suddenly having a 'mental health' crisis at the Olympics.
Her ego therefore took a humongous hit, and the only way to salvage this embarrassment and shame was to make one last appearance in an individual event. It's no coincidence it so happened to be the beam, on the very last day of gymnastics competition. What better way to craft the narrative of a 'courageous' comeback performance than that.
Nailed it. I've been vilified for expressing these exact sentiments. I'm just a regular person, certainly no gold medal winning gymnast, but here in the real world, we aren't congraulated for ditching our team at the last minute and walking out on them in front of BILLIONS of TV viewers so we can "take care of #1," leaving them high and dry. That's selfish and wrong. We're only given props for persistence and hard work. The team were the real heroes. And that Twitter video? Can't get more staged than that.
Even an amateur can grab the uneven bars. Biles could have done that in her sleep. Likely her performance fell off because of her age (or whatever,) she didn't want to risk losing her endorsements and $$$ because she couldn't win, and she claimed she dropped out due to "twisties" in as public a way as possible so she could remain the media darling. She was certainly aware of Olympic pressure and the Olympics had been postponed a full year; she could have quit long before.
Nailed it. I've been vilified for expressing these exact sentiments. I'm just a regular person, certainly no gold medal winning gymnast, but here in the real world, we aren't congraulated for ditching our team at the last minute and walking out on them in front of BILLIONS of TV viewers so we can "take care of #1," leaving them high and dry. That's selfish and wrong. We're only given props for persistence and hard work. The team were the real heroes. And that Twitter video? Can't get more staged than that.
Even an amateur can grab the uneven bars. Biles could have done that in her sleep. Likely her performance fell off because of her age (or whatever,) she didn't want to risk losing her endorsements and $$$ because she couldn't win, and she claimed she dropped out due to "twisties" in as public a way as possible so she could remain the media darling. She was certainly aware of Olympic pressure and the Olympics had been postponed a full year; she could have quit long before.
From reading this thread it looks like Simone Biles could have saved herself a lot of trouble by just doing something that the right wingers would have interpreted as "hating America" rather than doing what she did in these Olympics.
Saw an interview about the bronze where she said, "I just wanted to go out there for me and that's what I did." I think that's the problem for many of us, the games used to be about doing it for your country, not yourself.
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