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re: Gymnastics - Simone Biles dominant again
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:57 am to TackySweater
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:57 am to TackySweater
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Instead of graciously competing till the end and not winning, she left like a sore loser.
Dumb take, you don't risk ruining the career of the best gymnast ever AND costing your team a medal just to say "I tried".
If someone can't compete it's next (wo)man up.
She wasn't able to perform her routine as we saw when she tried.
Austen Matthews (leading scorer in the NHL) had to miss a playoff game this year because his body wasn't up to the task, nothing to do with not wanting to be out there. He gave it a shot the next game and was ineffective.
The way gymnastics works is so different than other sports because you only get 1 chance at your routine. U cant give it a shot and get subbed out 3 minutes in if you don't feel right. If you go in for your 1 run at beam and frick up, you cost your team.
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 11:07 am
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Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:16 am to POTUS2024
Some of you need to get a grip. The mental gymnastics (ISWYDT) used to call a woman mentally weak who happens to have the MOST Olympic gold medals in women's gymnastics* in the history of the United States is crazy. She's performed at the highest stage of and succeeded multiple times.
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 11:54 am
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:21 am to Corinthians420
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Austen Matthews (leading scorer in the NHL) had to miss a playoff game this year because his body wasn't up to the task,
So his was a physical issue?
Bikes has said over and over hers was mental
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Dumb take, you don't risk ruining the career of the best gymnast ever AND costing your team a medal just to say "I tried".
Lol. The only thing she was risking was her ego when she would have not won. She wasn’t on her A game and she walked out pouting.
But y’all continue to eat up all the excuses she and everyone around her continue to put out there.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:21 am to Sterling Archer
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The mental gymnastics (ISWYDT) used to call a woman mentally weak who happens to have the MOST Olympic gold medals in the history of the United States is crazy. She's performed at the highest stage of and succeeded multiple times.
That's the biggest hole in their entire argument.
I could go along with their theory that she is too mentally weak to get it done if she hadn't already don't it more than anyone else in history.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:23 am to TackySweater
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The only thing she was risking was her ego when she would have not won
According to other Olympic gymnasts that is not true and she was at severe injury risk. Show me your gymnastics credentials (besides mental gymnastics) and I'll consider your opinion on the matter with theirs. Until you show me where you have ever performed gymnastics at a high level, your opinion is meaningless compared to those who have.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:24 am to Corinthians420
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That's the biggest hole in their entire argument. I could go along with their theory that she is too mentally weak to get it done if she hadn't already don't it more than anyone else in history.
Eventually all that pressure to keep doing it again and again hits a breaking point.
We saw what happened at that breaking point. She collapsed and walked out after not being her best.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:25 am to Corinthians420
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According to other Olympic gymnasts that is not true and she was at severe injury risk.
You think other gymnasts are going to come out against her?
Especially as a black female? Lol
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:26 am to Buckeye Backer
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I don't want quitters on team USA
She couldn’t perform, would’ve hurt the team and likely gotten injured. If she’s back we need her
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:44 am to AkronTiger
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f she’s back for the duration of the competition we need her
FIFY
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:49 am to Sterling Archer
quote:And often through crazy pain and injuries.
Some of you need to get a grip. The mental gymnastics (ISWYDT) used to call a woman mentally weak who happens to have the MOST Olympic gold medals in the history of the United States is crazy. She's performed at the highest stage of and succeeded multiple times.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:51 am to TackySweater
quote:Even if your version were true, it's not even that bad of a thing. Let's say she hit her breaking point - the correct response to that is to risk yourself and the team instead of removing yourself for the next woman up? You live in a weird world.
Eventually all that pressure to keep doing it again and again hits a breaking point.
We saw what happened at that breaking point. She collapsed and walked out after not being her best.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:52 am to Big Scrub TX
Didn’t she remove herself after the cut off, not allowing a replacement/alternate to be submitted?
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:54 am to POTUS2024
Internet D-bags weren't the ones putting GOAT and sequined goats on their uniforms only to quit though.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:03 pm to TackySweater
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Especially as a black female?
There it is.
She gets more shite than Ryan Lotche, someone who is a literal disgrace, and it's asinine.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:06 pm to POTUS2024
My thing isn’t that she quit, hey if the pressure is too much, I get it, step aside, let someone else take your place and you go get yourself right, especially since the Olympics really aren’t all THAT serious - it’s literally called the Olympic GAMES after all.
What pissed me off is she knew she wasn’t right and wasn’t going to be able to compete and still went to Tokyo anyways, taking the spot of someone who could actually compete and represent our nation. She became a distraction (i don’t put that 100% on her). Rather than the attention being about the young women who were competing, it was about her not competing.
But anyways, gymnastics isn’t a sport I care much of anything about in general so it’s no big skin off my back but with the 475 Olympic commercials I’ve been seeing on USA/NBC/Peacock every day and most featuring her, it does get annoying (and I don’t blame her one bit for their annoying arse marketing).
What pissed me off is she knew she wasn’t right and wasn’t going to be able to compete and still went to Tokyo anyways, taking the spot of someone who could actually compete and represent our nation. She became a distraction (i don’t put that 100% on her). Rather than the attention being about the young women who were competing, it was about her not competing.
But anyways, gymnastics isn’t a sport I care much of anything about in general so it’s no big skin off my back but with the 475 Olympic commercials I’ve been seeing on USA/NBC/Peacock every day and most featuring her, it does get annoying (and I don’t blame her one bit for their annoying arse marketing).
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:10 pm to POTUS2024
She had the yips. Same as chuck knoblauch did for a stretch while playing with the Yankees.
Only difference is the yips caused knoblauch to airmail routine throws into the stands behind first base. Biles' yips could have resulted in very serious injury.
Only difference is the yips caused knoblauch to airmail routine throws into the stands behind first base. Biles' yips could have resulted in very serious injury.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:10 pm to Dairy Sanders
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What pissed me off is she knew she wasn’t right and wasn’t going to be able to compete and still went to Tokyo anyways, taking the spot of someone who could actually compete and represent our nation.
Hard to say she didn't compete. She still got us an individual bronze medal in Beam and her score was part of team silver in the overall.
Was there someone left off the team that could've done better than bronze on individual beam? Sunisa Lee didn't and she was the overall gold.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:11 pm to Big Scrub TX
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that is to risk yourself
Y’all keep saying she was in this huge risk of possible death.
She’s said countless times in her own words that she withdrew to step back for a moment and focus on her mental health because she was struggling with the pressure. Nobody is making that up. That’s her words. She couldn’t handle the social media pressure either.
She said the Olympics weren’t fun anymore because she wasn’t competing for herself anymore, and competing for others. Wellllll yea it’s the fricking Olympics and you’re part of the team program. You’re competing for yourself, your team, and your country.
Pressure got to her, plain and simple, and she quit. And “mental health” is just the easy excuse people want to use for quitting.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:14 pm to Corinthians420
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She still got us an individual bronze medal in Beam
AFTER she walked out on the team and quit, mind you, lol
Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:14 pm to Buckeye Backer
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Nothing will change the FACT that idiots who know little to nothing about how dangerous gymnastics can be continue to think Biles could have safely competed and won gold for the US in the last Olympics.
FIFY
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