Posted on 04/15/2022 4:51:15 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Simone Biles has become nearly as famous for the Olympic events she quit as the ones she won, and now she is doubling down, saying that walking away last year was her “biggest win” yet.
The renowned gymnast became the target of criticism after she dropped out of several events at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The 24-year-old gymnast said she skipped the events due to her “mental health.”
Since she walked away from some of the events, Biles has become the toast of the left for deferring to her “mental health” instead of achieving excellence in competition.
She later took aim at the critics and insisted that bowing out of the events does not make her a quitter.
“This Olympics doesn’t erase the past accomplishments I’ve achieved, nor does it define who I am as an athlete. I’ve pushed through so much the past couple years, the word quitter is not in my vocabulary,” she wrote on Instagram in September of last year.
“Walking away from the Olympic Games was a win in itself,” Biles exclaimed.
“I know a lot of people thought I failed because they expected me to go out with five or six medals, but walking out of it was my biggest win.“
She even said her decision to turn her back on the events she was signed up to play was “probably the most courageous” thing she has ever done.
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The worst of all time.
Whatever helps you sleep at night
Like Obama’s leading from behind ,LOL
I don’t live in Opposite World.
It’s good what she does is meaningless. It’s also good she’s not a neurosurgeon
I don’t blame her.
I think most of us would have done the same thing if our activities had been conduits to sexual abuse upon us.
-PJ
a peak into the mind of a liberal:
where being a quitter = biggest win!
lmao
Shes a loser
War is peace.
Bizarro World
Freedom is slavery
Losing is winning
We should restrict participation in the Olympics to athletes up to 21 years old. It should be an experience that you get as a College athlete. Then you move on with life.
Was there an issue of that?
She talks about the atmosphere over there, locked in rooms
only coming out for meals and events.
That was what everyone else had to put up with. Not sure
why it was unbearable for her.
She can do what she wants. I haven’t been interested in the
Olympics for 30 years or so.
Whey they started revealing the horrible lives of each
athlete, I asked myself if I needed to see that. My response
was no.
I tuned out.
It was HOW SHE QUIT that was the problem. One of the greatest running backs of all time, Barry Sanders quit during his prime. Sugar Ray quit at the top. I have nothing but great admiration and respect for both.
But Biles quit half way through the Olympics because she couldn’t deal with not winning. She let down her team, she robbed someone else the chance to compete.
Uh, no Simone, it does make you a quitter.
Don’t blame her.
#32 Jim Brown.
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