Simon Biles goes home devastated - quits in middle of team competition

This is well said.

Gymnastics is such a challenging sport. Imagine having to grind your entire life to be where Simone Biles is today. Eat and sleep gymnastics your whole life has to be mentally brutal. Then at the Olympics you have to be absolutely perfect to win gold. Some of the GOATs in other sports can have a mediocre game and still win. Look at Tom Brady, his last superbowl was not the greatest performance ever

Katie ladecky just choked again. 5th place, but she finished the race so all is good.

hey koypind, like the urine in your foreskin. Your mama has the same.

D3Jogger wrote:

Gymnastics is such a challenging sport. Imagine having to grind your entire life to be where Simone Biles is today. Eat and sleep gymnastics your whole life has to be mentally brutal. Then at the Olympics you have to be absolutely perfect to win gold. Some of the GOATs in other sports can have a mediocre game and still win. Look at Tom Brady, his last superbowl was not the greatest performance ever

You don't have to be perfect. Biles had 3 huge mistakes in the qualifying round and still had the best score. Maybe she needs to do an easier routine than she can actually do. Like a 7 foot high jumper trying to do 8 feet.

She did one warmup vault and won another silver medal. Maybe she was the smartest person on the team. Do nothing and still add another medal to the collection.

doingthistopost wrote:

Quit team comp after the vault. Not injury related. Bet she made the decision before the comp but I think the rules require each team member to compete on at least one event.

Nope, that is not a rule.

The only conclusion to draw from this thread and every other thread like it on letsrun is that runners are the most miserable bastards on earth. Are you all really this insecure? This whole site is showcase for dickishness and assholery.

I remember when Barry Sanders retired at the top of his game. Not the same thing, but it brought back somewhat of the same memories of people talking about his situation.

I wonder what the paralympic athletes must be thinking about her quitting over something so minor. It is very embarrassing for her when you think about it from that perspective.

"Mental health" is the favorite excuse of the left. It can't be visibly seen or measured which makes it impossible for anyone to call BS on you. You'll also get endless applause and sympathy from all the other quitters.

If she wants true respect she could just come out and say "Look I was under a lot of pressure and I choked. I shouldn't have quit on my team but I just wasn't prepared to fail like that. I'm going to take this as a learning experience and let this motivate me for next time."

She had something called the twisties (kind of like yips), which is when your brain and body disconnect mid air. Flipping and doing intricate skills then losing air awareness can cause major injury because you can’t control how you land. If you rewatch that vault she did, you can see she gets lost in the air. Her pulling out was the best choice for her safety.

Idk why NBC is spinning it as a mental health issue...

just saying... wrote:

I wonder what the paralympic athletes must be thinking about her quitting over something so minor. It is very embarrassing for her when you think about it from that perspective.

"Mental health" is the favorite excuse of the left. It can't be visibly seen or measured which makes it impossible for anyone to call BS on you. You'll also get endless applause and sympathy from all the other quitters.

If she wants true respect she could just come out and say "Look I was under a lot of pressure and I choked. I shouldn't have quit on my team but I just wasn't prepared to fail like that. I'm going to take this as a learning experience and let this motivate me for next time."

"favorite excuse of the left" Glad to see someone throw some cowardly political take on it. That explains the weak paralympic comparison. Anyone that makes this political clearly has no maturity to discuss this thoughtfully.

-My take. She was clearly off in qualifying, was lost on that vault (and somehow didn't blow it and fall). Probably thought her teammates could do better than her, and didn't want to be a liability. do you want to see that out of the best? No, but if you had a teammate with a bum hamstring who decided to run, and pull up lame during the race...you get nothing.

If anyone has a take...aske her teammates., those are the only ones that matter. If they're pissed at her, fine. If they support her, than thats all that matter. Not the takes from a bunch of internet trolls.

Well.................. wrote:

At Augusta, Tiger's nerves would often result in a snap hook off the 1st tee.

To think he could've just quit after round 3, citing mental health problems. Glad he didn't do that in 2019.

He's not going to land on his head after 3 somersaults and a couple of twists because of nerves.

only conclusion wrote:

The only conclusion to draw from this thread and every other thread like it on letsrun is that runners are the most miserable bastards on earth. Are you all really this insecure? This whole site is showcase for dickishness and assholery.

Bro, I never dropped out of the 2 D1 invitationals I got to travel to into my entire 4 year career in college. I know what it's like.

Well l played sir!

+1

He drove it left and landed on his head in LA

numb nuts wrote:

Well.................. wrote:

At Augusta, Tiger's nerves would often result in a snap hook off the 1st tee.

To think he could've just quit after round 3, citing mental health problems. Glad he didn't do that in 2019.

He's not going to land on his head after 3 somersaults and a couple of twists because of nerves.

He might not make it to round 3