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re: Simone Biles with triumphant return to gymnastics after chickening out of Olympics
Posted on 8/7/23 at 12:14 am to Dawgsontop34
Posted on 8/7/23 at 12:14 am to Dawgsontop34
I think I’m in the same boat but just barely on the opposite side as you.
My first instinct was “oh here we go again” with the media diving head first to save a Simone Biles, Bubba Wallace, that tennis girl who quit, etc bologna. I don’t know the chronology there but I do know by the time Simone was quitting right before the Olympics I was tired of hearing the media put on a full front sticking up for this shite.
I think I did a fine job sitting back and trying to learn about Simone’s issues and not blindly condemning her(as so many assholes did). But shite man, it’s getting hard.
It’s terrible when people on the right gang up and attack an individual like Simone. Like it’s her job to put on the red white and blue and satisfy anyone’s patriotism
She represented herself and our country as well as one could ever hope.
But shite, it’s also hard to see how the media treated it and not join the other corner out of principal.
My first instinct was “oh here we go again” with the media diving head first to save a Simone Biles, Bubba Wallace, that tennis girl who quit, etc bologna. I don’t know the chronology there but I do know by the time Simone was quitting right before the Olympics I was tired of hearing the media put on a full front sticking up for this shite.
I think I did a fine job sitting back and trying to learn about Simone’s issues and not blindly condemning her(as so many assholes did). But shite man, it’s getting hard.
It’s terrible when people on the right gang up and attack an individual like Simone. Like it’s her job to put on the red white and blue and satisfy anyone’s patriotism
She represented herself and our country as well as one could ever hope. But shite, it’s also hard to see how the media treated it and not join the other corner out of principal.
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 12:17 am
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Posted on 8/7/23 at 12:19 am to AUriptide
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So many limp wrist fricks like you love to reward cowards and traitors is honestly not impressive at all.
Traitors? a bit dramatic.
it’s not like they stormed the capitol.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 3:34 am to Talkum Poudar
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Now we have to blame her agent for making her wear GOAT gear.
Anything but making her take any responsibility.
Lmfao
I'm just trying to take a guess on how this came about. Maybe you're right. Perhaps it was her idea and hers alone. I don't know.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 4:25 am to ReauxlTide222
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Like it’s her job to put on the red white and blue and satisfy anyone’s patriotism
At the Olympics? Yes. That is 100% her job. She was selected to represent the United States of America at the biggest international competition in the world. That means she is there not representing herself, but the 330 million people who live in the United States.
I realize in this era of "me" we seem to have forgotten that, but there's an excellent scene in the 2004 movie Miracle where Kurt Russell's Herb Brooks drives that point home to his team at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
What it comes down to is this, as Paul Joseph Watson put it some two years ago, we shouldn't lionize people as heroes for failing at the one thing they are supposed to be professionally trained for - handling pressure.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 6:31 am to POTUS2024
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'Twisties' are serious. If you don't know where you are, you can come down and kill yourself
People are dismissing the seriousnes of this waaaaayyy too easily.
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it would hurt her scores which hurts the team
Biles already had plenty of medals at this time, there's no reason to truly suspect that she quit or wasn't mentally prepared. Twisties are real, and if she knows she's not herself enough to perform to her abilities then that hurts Team USA to go out there and be selfish and try. Pulling out was probably one of the hardest things she's ever had to do. I'm not suggesting we all wear "Back Biles" shirts or any shite like that, but the hate she got here for not wanting to risk injury or her teams score at the freaking OLYMPICS is crazy, especially after she's done it before.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:08 am to RollTide1987
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Or, I'm sorry, got "the twisties" and bowed out of the competitio
So you clearly don't follow gymnastics. This is a legit thing. It's similar to someone the yips in golfing, it gets in your head.
Not sure why someone would hate on her for this, she is one of the best Olympic athletes of all time and she did the right thing in bowing out because she would have been hurting the team if she did try to keep going.
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 10:12 am
Posted on 8/7/23 at 10:12 am to iwyLSUiwy
Let's all be real here.
If this was Livvy instead of Biles, everyone that is shitting on Biles would be bending over backwards to defend Livvy... after all, she's white, hot and has been co-opted as a symbol against cancel culture because of that one time.
If this was Livvy instead of Biles, everyone that is shitting on Biles would be bending over backwards to defend Livvy... after all, she's white, hot and has been co-opted as a symbol against cancel culture because of that one time.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:01 am to RollTide1987
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At the Olympics? Yes. That is 100% her job. She was selected to represent the United States of America at the biggest international competition in the world
You know there were people that could and did fill in for her (alternates). So if she would have retired after 2016, would that have changed your opinion?
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there's an excellent scene in the 2004 movie Miracle
Oh, so we’re using made up words by professional writers now to drive our point home.
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Paul Joseph Watson
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 11:03 am
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:07 am to TackySweater
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And then she couldn’t compete when the pressure got to big.
Winning 1 gold medal is a big deal, winning 4 is incredible. I think she has shown many times she does well under pressure. She may not have this last time but she’s done it 4 other times which is pretty remarkable, especially to someone like you sitting on the couch with cheese sauce dripped all over the shirt your mom just bought you
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:10 am to Broski
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If this was Livvy instead of Biles, everyone that is shitting on Biles would be bending over backwards to defend Livvy... after all, she's white,
Biles doesn’t need white liberals coming in to defend her from evil white people dude, she’s ok. We get it, you aren’t “racist” It’s just gymnastics
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:14 am to Mushroom1968
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Biles doesn’t need white liberals coming in to defend her from evil white people dude, she’s ok. We get it, you aren’t “racist” It’s just gymnastics
Oh... you missed the point.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:23 am to Broski
The craziest thing in all of this is that Bikes is 26 and still a world class/medal contender type after not competing for 2+ yrs.
At that age, most Olympic gymnasts have been retired for 5-10 yrs and wouldn't be able to get close to a US Olympic roster spot... And probably wouldnt want to, either.
At that age, most Olympic gymnasts have been retired for 5-10 yrs and wouldn't be able to get close to a US Olympic roster spot... And probably wouldnt want to, either.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:24 am to Broski
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Oh... you missed the point.
Wouldn't be my first time
I'm a fan of Biles, enjoyed watching her compete. Amazing how good she is. Wife and oldest daughter (no pics) both use to do gymnastics and are big fans of her. Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:41 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Guessing you've never lost a fellow soldier/Marine to undiagnosed mental health issues/undiagnosed PTSD?
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SoFla Tideroller
I see you still haven't answered this question.
You're dodging.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 11:49 am to Broski
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If this was Livvy instead of Biles, everyone that is shitting on Biles would be bending over backwards to defend Livvy... after all, she's white, hot and has been co-opted as a symbol against cancel culture because of that one time.
I said the same thing last night a page or two back, I just didn't bring up the fact that Simone was black b/c we both know how that would have went.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 12:06 pm to RollTide1987
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She originally talked about the pressure of the moment and being in the spotlight becoming too great for her.
She was already a 4X gold medalist including winning the all-around individually.
She obviously dealt with the pressure well enough in 2016. Something happened either mentally, or as someone said with her Adderall usage, that made her shrivel since she had already shown the ability to deal with immense pressure
Posted on 8/7/23 at 1:06 pm to Buckeye06
Somehow people are forgetting that she is one of the greatest Olympic athletes ever. Certainly the greatest gymnast of all time. She has carried USA to Golds numerous times but for some reason she doesn't get a pass because she did the right thing by stepping aside last time. She
deserved to be on that team more than anybody on there, but at the start she got the yips and couldn't perform to the best of her abilities. She didn't go in with the plan of stepping aside. She tried and didn't have it. There is seriously nothing wrong with what she did. Who cares if she chalked it up to mental health. If she never competes for the US again her legacy swill be that she is the greatest Olympic gymnast ever. Any gymnast fan knows that, bozos that know nothing about the sport will only remember her stepping aside last go around.
deserved to be on that team more than anybody on there, but at the start she got the yips and couldn't perform to the best of her abilities. She didn't go in with the plan of stepping aside. She tried and didn't have it. There is seriously nothing wrong with what she did. Who cares if she chalked it up to mental health. If she never competes for the US again her legacy swill be that she is the greatest Olympic gymnast ever. Any gymnast fan knows that, bozos that know nothing about the sport will only remember her stepping aside last go around.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 2:20 pm to Dawgsontop34
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So many of y’all care so much about these athletes you hate like Biles and Rapinoe.
It’s honestly impressive ?
I wish I could care as much about anything that they claim to not care about. frickin looney toons.
If you don't give a frick, then you don't pay attention. Stop lying to yourself.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 4:54 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Take solace from the witch doctors with a degree if you must. You’d do just as well talking to your mailman.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 7:32 pm to TackySweater
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College gymnastics/nationals isn’t the Olympics.
She has dominated the World Gymnastics Championships ever since what, 2013?
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Or it suggests she couldn’t handle the biggest stage there is and she quit.
She also dominated the Rio Olympics.
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 7:32 pm
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