re: Simone Biles with triumphant return to gymnastics after chickening out of Olympics

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mental health issues

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I’m genuinely curious. Why do so many people dismiss the notion of mental health issues in this case?

Yes it’s been a hot topic recently as more and more athletes say they have them, but they’ve been happening forever they just weren’t talked about. You think hiring someone to break your opponents knees isn’t mental health issues? You think McEnroe going ape shite on a judge isn’t mental health issues?

Some of y’all are so soft, you’ve got to bash a young woman because she didn’t rise to the occasion to make yourself feel better?

Quitter makes return to not quitting

How noble

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Didn’t she bow out from the Olympics due to the sexual assault case from Larry Nassar?

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No. That case was over in 2017, he was sentenced by January 2018.

Stunning and brave

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Why do so many people dismiss the notion of mental health issues in this case?

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Because that wasn't what her original reason for bowing out was. She originally talked about the pressure of the moment and being in the spotlight becoming too great for her. It was only after the blowback she received from that explanation that mental health was brought up. After that we all were supposed to nod our heads and understand.

I just find that a little too convenient.

Didn't you get the memo

Any time there is anything challenging in your life you just play the mental health card and everyone has to blow you because of how brave you are.

Simple.

Double points if you wear your own gear calling yourself the greatest of all time and fail and then claim press pressure did this.

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Simone Biles with triumphant return to gymnastics after chickening out of Olympics

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It's crazy how people that hate ESPN and Steven A Smith try to imitate him with their hot takes.

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You don't think that can cause mental health issues?

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If pressure in the Olympics is a mental health issue than anything else is and it means nothing.

You are supposed to be under a frickton of mental pressure.

It's fricking sports.

What happend to 90% of the game is 100% mental shirts.

Jesus

Ok, let me set some of yous straight on some things.

1) Biles does not deserve, in any way, to be compared to the women's soccer team. There have been rumors for years that she may not be the greatest person - I have no idea if that's true. She may be an awesome person. I have no idea. But nothing indicates that she is in the same category as the America-hating soccer players.

2) Her Adderall was allowed in Tokyo. Reference the following from Insider.com, "A special arrangement is in place specifically for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to allow athletes taking these medicines for therapeutic use, and with an approved Therapeutic Use Exemption, to import personal supplies for the treatment of their medical condition while they are in Japan," a document provided via Team USA says.

3) 'Twisties' are serious. If you don't know where you are, you can come down and kill yourself. Withdrawing as she did was a bit of a no-brainer. I understand some people say, "It's the Olympics, you have to keep going" but this would not only be dangerous, it would hurt her scores which hurts the team. Just as the competition began she did a vault and Olympic gold medalist Tim Daggett immediately said, "Uh oh...I don't think she knew where she was." She didn't even do the vault she was supposed to do. If this continued throughout the competition it would have led to a lot of scoring deductions. I wish I could find the video again, but guys like Daggett know this stuff when they see it. Other broadcasters noticed as well.

4) What might be the worst part in the whole situation is that the remaining girls delivered the most clutch performance in the history of US women's athletics, to keep going and get silver, and they don't get the credit they deserve. Biles was considered the best gymnast on the planet by a wide margin. Her scores were going to be extremely important. The Russian team was exceptional and for the remaining US girls to get silver was amazing. If they had folded and said 'forget it', no one would have blamed them. But they didn't. The Russian team was spectacular in Tokyo. They were in first after qualifying, and that was with Simone in the mix. What the US girls did was very impressive. They deserve more credit than they get.

5) After yesterday, Simone is very likely to collect a lot of medals in Paris. Team USA is stacked with talent right now. I think they could split the US into two parts and get two teams to medal in Paris.

My opinion is that the lead up to the Olympics, with people calling her the greatest of all time, put too much pressure on her and she got the gymnastics equivalent of the yips and the twisties developed. You can't be the 'goat' while still competing - it sets the bar too high and there's no way to reach those expectations. I think she should have pushed the goat stuff away, rather than putting it on her leotards, gym bags etc. That's just too much expectation and there's no way to live up to it.