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Simone Biles out of Olympic gymnastics team competition in Tokyo
Yahoo Sports ^ | 07/27/21 | Dan Wentzel

Posted on 07/27/2021 5:51:06 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

TOKYO — Simone Biles was pulled from the team competition here Tuesday after an awkward, low-scoring attempt on vault, leaving the United States, which was already locked in a tough battle with Russia, in serious trouble as it seeks its third consecutive gold medal.

Biles bailed out on her expected vault, attempting just a Yurchenko 1.5. She still needed a massive bounce/stumble upon landing.

She looked to be in tears as she left the mat and then soon walked out of the arena floor with a trainer from USA Gymnastics.

She did not appear to suffer any obvious physical injury during her attempt. NBC reported that she was dealing with a “mental issue” not a physical one. USA Gymnastics would just describe it as a "medical issue."

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KEYWORDS: olympics; simonebile; simonebiles; wokechoke
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To: Skywise
Intentionally throwing the game because she hates the US?

From what I’ve seen, she has never come off as “woke.” She seems pretty down to earth.

But I haven’t watched any Olympic coverage this year, so maybe I’ve missed something.

41 posted on 07/27/2021 7:10:28 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: hoagy62

Nothing physically wrong it is a mental issue.

She copped out basically a sore loser a product of today’s generation.


42 posted on 07/27/2021 7:14:46 AM PDT by hercuroc
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To: winoneforthegipper

Maybe she’s pregnant.


43 posted on 07/27/2021 7:20:29 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: Skywise

Not trying very hard, at the very least. How can she give her all for a country she thinks is evil? She hates more than half of us.


44 posted on 07/27/2021 7:21:44 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: winoneforthegipper

I celebrated madly when “The miracle on ice” happened back in 1980. But this time around, I want the US to get whacked in the games. I’d like our medal count to be below that of some place like the Philippines.

To hell with all this woke BS.


45 posted on 07/27/2021 7:25:00 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: winoneforthegipper

To quote my father:

Some days you gets the bear
Some days the bear gets you
Most days you just gets
Bear hair all over you.


46 posted on 07/27/2021 7:30:24 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Ridiculous.

Circle back to my:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3979549/posts?page=26#26


47 posted on 07/27/2021 7:54:50 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well, apparently Simone Biles is woke, and that is what the discussion was about.


48 posted on 07/27/2021 7:55:50 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: FrankRizzo890

Funny you should mention the Philippines. Yesterday, they got their very 1st gold medal in any sport. It was in women’s weight lifting, and it was from a sergeant in the philippine Air Force. She was very proud of her country. You could tell. When they played the Philippine national anthem, she snapped to attention, saluted, and was bawling her eyes out during the anthem.

That was their first. When I last looked, we had 7. None of them did any kind of protest on the podium.

Now, my question to you: WHY do you want us humiliated so badly? What could you possibly want to come out of that?


49 posted on 07/27/2021 8:01:23 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: FrankRizzo890

I want the soccer girls and the pro black basketball boys to get whipped. Or at least lose out.

Otherwise, it depends on the athlete. I don’t wish for the whole lot to get beaten.


50 posted on 07/27/2021 8:21:27 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: dfwgator
Sports that depend on judges really isn’t a sport.

For an amusing taking on gymnastics and judging, watch the movie, "Stick it". There is a double entendre intended...both the landing and the judging. A very entertaining movie. Real gymnasts including Nadia Comaneci along with some dolled up actress/gymnasts.

51 posted on 07/27/2021 8:27:28 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Stravinsky
The women's floor routines are always my favorites. The beam routine followed by uneven parallel bars are next. Sticking a landing on a vault really takes lots of practice. I'll wait for the Youtube replays to watch at a later time.
52 posted on 07/27/2021 8:31:59 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Stravinsky

But COVID theater means no spectators except a handful of teammates.


Not watching the Olympics but have been watching Pro Rugby from Europe/Britain lately. Some matches they’d feed in fake fan noise, but in some you could actually hear what the players were saying to each other on the field which is kind of neat. Of course every now and then the proper English sportscaster would say, ‘sorry for the language’.


53 posted on 07/27/2021 8:40:47 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: winoneforthegipper
She's 24. I think the pressure got to her.

NBC has been crowning her the "GOAT" and she over-compensated.

She was over-powering her routines in an attempt to meet the expectations.

On her qualifying floor exercise, she went so high and so fast that the momentum flew her off of the floor mat.

On her first qualifying vault, she hit the springboard right at the end instead of the middle, and it threw off the balance of the rest of the vault.

I didn't see this morning's event so I can't comment on today, but it looks to me that she let the pressure get the better of her.

-PJ

54 posted on 07/27/2021 8:43:00 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
it looks to me that she let the pressure get the better of her

She's distracted, entwined with BLM and spreading wokeness can do that.

55 posted on 07/27/2021 8:44:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: dfwgator

Agree. Get rid of half the events, like skateboarding, and all the flippy drippy stuff.


56 posted on 07/27/2021 12:43:47 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: winoneforthegipper
Meanwhile, get a load of this...

Award-winning Deaf-blind Paralympian bows out of Tokyo Games after officials deny her request for certain disability services

57 posted on 07/27/2021 12:44:50 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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