Posted on 07/29/2021 4:49:52 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Edited on 07/29/2021 8:37:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Paul tells the inconvenient truth about Simone Biles and her non-performance at the Tokyo Olympics.
A summary would be helpful for those of us who don’t have time to watch the videos.
Panic attack...plain and simple. No one needs to make a five-star drama out of this. You see this in baseball, football, etc. You can line up a hundred athletes and I bet that 10-percent will admit some form of anxiety or panic problems.
Self-created.
You can’t truly appreciate how death-defying her skill level is. I don’t blame her a stitch.
Man, the responses from the FR crowd that jumped to her defense and clucked at everyone that said anything even remotely negative for lil Miss Simone are going to be priceless!
Did a team of arguably the best basketball players in the world also have a group panic attack causing them to lose to the French you think?
It’s a video. The title is self explanatory. If you don’t have time to watch it then it doesn’t matter.
Good post. I agree.
“ Panic attack...plain and simple.”
It would be pure and simple if she hadn’t been the major draw for the olympics
You can line up 10 % of athletes who have anxiety but none who quit with such timing and visibility
Let’s not do that to them. They gather what it takes to finish. It was too much for her. Very few are condemning her for that. But please don’t detract from those who did not quit when they wanted to. They get to enjoy rewards.
People watch sports in part to see what it looks like to not quit when it might get bad. Anxiety is not exclusive to sports.
If she wanted to quit that’s fine by me but since she quit she should have caught the first flight home, saying she’s staying to support her team mates is pure BS, when she quit it’s no longer about her and she should remove herself from the spotlight so the media can focus on the athletes not whatever she’s become now.
I looked at it. Sounds like he’s claiming that she missed her first vault, then quit, leaving her team to fend for themselves. They would later be beat by the Russians.
He claims that she said she had some mental health issues, and was feeling the pressure of the world on her shoulders, etc.
Her level is so high, that even when she flows, she scores.
I like her, and if I find out that she’s some flaming liberal freak ass then, I’ll be sad.
She should just hang in there, and what happens, happens.
Panic attack...plain and simple
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Longer, really, in golf, isn’t it called the Yips?
A summary would be helpful for those of us who don’t have time to watch the videos.
..but where is the fun in that? All of the internet is clickbait when you get right down to it. You want me to read the article? (FR rule #1)
Is she a trapeze artist?
Is she thinks gymnastics is so scary, who go into that sport?
I don’t blame her either. I guess folks would have felt better if she broke her neck or suffered a career ending injury. Biles proved herself. She faces tougher judging etc. Despite her success she has had a tough life. Adopted by grand parents, her drug addled mother feed a cat instead of her children. She suffer sexual abuse at the hands of Dr Nasser. I leave you with Teddy Roosevelt’s “ the man in the arena “. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A311CnTjfos
He’s an Alex Jones acolyte. Right there he’s an idiot. He knows nothing about Biles or what she’s going thru.
Oh & Milo is his other buddy. Thanks for bringing us such stellar people.
Good take.
I haven’t watched it yet but just wanted to say Gymmastics has some major exceptions distinguishing from other sports. Having an “off” day doesn’t just mean placing 7th, it can mean a broken spine or snapped neck.
Simone makes it look easy and she goes beyond the threshold of the normal safety boundaries. I don’t know if the solution is for gymnasts to have “easier” skills and routines to perform as backup when they don’t feel up to the challenge of what they planned...but even “easier” routines come with monumental safety hazards.
The Soviet Union’s Olympics regime left some of their gymnasts permanently crippled or quadriplegic. I’m sure China and others the same.
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