I'm giving her a break.....
Only time will tell, but with our woke corporate media there’s a better than average chance they will shift into overdrive trying to promote her as brave and heroic. Afterall, she checks all the right boxes and nothing screams victimhood louder and identity politics more than a black female athlete.
Tokyo Updates: US Wins Silver in Gymnastics Team Event After Simone Biles Exits
Maybe she can get a job pumping gas in Oregon or New Jersey, else at McDonalds if she also speaks Mexican.
So if she can’t win she won’t compete ? Why was she even there then ??
Oh it will.
Mark it.
She hasn’t yet come out to blame as many men for her failure yet. That’s the next phase.
Then she will milk the alleged victimhood the rest of her life.
This is why we have alternates, Jordan Chiles in this case.
I thought Jordan Chiles was part of the regular team, but in all the articles she’d being identified as the alternate?? I guess I don’t understand how all this works
The top golf pros usually have a sports psychologist in their coaching entourage. Pro golf is very unforgiving. Just a few mental errors, a few missed putts, takes the golfer out of competition. Not to mention it is very embarrassing for a ranked player to not make the cut.
I think the few mistakes she made in her fairly easy opening routine shocked her and she panicked. She feared the humiliation of failing. So she quit.
She already had her gold medals and fame. She should have quit while she was ahead if she wasn’t hungry for more. She could have used age as an excuse. I bet the lure of commercial money was the smelly cheese in the trap.
There is no “I” in “team.”
Simpler than that, is the reality that she got a case of the Yips, and can’t just shake it off.
I still like her even though she is having a hard time like other humans.
I would have had no issue with her “withdrawing” if it were prior to the trials - we don’t need the drama, but apparently they require it.
/nuclear-grade s
Biles' 2016 Olympic performance was far more impressive than Retton's 1984 Olympics (even if you ignore the fact that many top competitors were absent in 1984 due to the boycott.)
Biles' non-Olympic career is also much more impressive than Retton's.
In the vault she did the other day, she lost her positional awareness, and then was unable to overcome that in practice. On the vault, they land on that huge, soft mat and she managed to land on her feet. In other events, they land on a thin, firm mat. If that happens in those events, it could easily result in serious injury.
She could probably get over this, given some time. She doesn't have that right now. If she doesn't get over it, she's done as a gymnast.
Guessing she gave up millions in income by stepping aside, so the word selfish would very difficult to use about her.
If she did stay on and attempt competition in a compromised condition, people would then bitch and moan that she was selfish and should have stepped aside and let someone else compete in her place.
It’s a no win for her.
Having said that, it sucks she’s not competing .
We all wanted to see her overcome a obstacle and triumph over it.