“It’s OK to quit when things get tough” -The message Simone Biles sends to little girls

utbcw wrote:

trashcan wrote:

I have never heard of a fighter getting the yips. Fighters do back out Of fights regularly they feel an injury is likely to render them ineffective, but I don’t think there is a direct correlate to her situation in MMA.

Oliver McCall

He has an emotional breakdown and quit. I haven’t seen anything indicating it was the yips. McCall didn’t say that. It was really weird, though.

Deadstream wrote:

A week before the 1964 Olympic Games, American discus thrower Al Oerter suffered a neck injury and torn cartilage in his ribs.

He competed anyway, won the third of his four consecutive gold medals, and broke the Olympic discus record.

When his doctor questioned his decision Oerter said, "This is the Olympics. You die for them."

That's all I have to say about Simone Biles.

What happened to Al Oerter?

Let it Rupp wrote:

you eh eh wrote:

doesn't take a lot of energy to figure out why so many letsrun posters hate her

part of it is the obvious racism, the other part is that they're angry, bitter incels who couldn't get laid in a morgue

You're on an anonymous forum, you don't have to virtue signal.

....but he's not biling it on....

hsiwbdidb wrote:

Motorsports are much more dangerous than gymnastics. They are doing 100+, some of them on motorcycles, and don't let one bad lap make them quit.

Motorcyclists crash, quite safely these days, and fighters get knocked out, hence you don't here about it.

hear

trashcan wrote:

You have to compare her situation to another one where getting the yips can paralyze or kill you. All of these other comparisons miss key aspects of her case.

Yes, as I linked before, as stated by a former olympic gymnast, but the Letsrun trolls don't agree, they know more about gymnastics thatn her, they have spent years down in mum's basement doing pull ups from the joists and rafters, forward rolls on their sleeping bag.

The point I made earlier is that every idiot somehow thinks that an Olympic favourite 'owes' them a medal, if not gold. They don't.

Its just a competition, read the ethos of the Games, you try your best and sometimes things get in the way. Your safety and health comes first. It's not for the morans and idiots at home, they have not put in the hard work.

Grow up you useless f*cks

trashcan wrote:

vaIjean wrote:

Wow, that settles it then.

You have to compare her situation to another one where getting the yips can paralyze or kill you. All of these other comparisons miss key aspects of her case.

Or perhaps you are aware of a fighter who got the yips. That would surprise me, but if someone has a link that would be interesting.

5 seconds of googling

Biles seems like the type of person that takes two trips to bring the groceries in the house.

mehhh wrote:

It's interesting that you'd be comfortable with an athlete's death all for a little piece of metal.

Copy & paste the part where I said that, or stop wasting my time.

+1000

I wish that our general public had more empathy

ultramarine wrote:

Oh what a role model!

Oh what a GOAT!

you probably hate the following:

Homosexuals

Transgenders

Women

Children

Black people

Biden

BLM

Socialism

Any track and field athlete that isn't white

See how insane people can sound over the internet? This is what you sound like "ultramarine", probably never deployed. Enjoy your "veteran" status.

roller coaster wrote:

You must not know how scoring works, one athlete cannot negatively impact a team because only the top 3 scores in each event are taken.

You must not know how the team competition works, because three athletes compete on each apparatus and each score counts.

I think it was really brave of Simone to step back. It takes tremendous courage to admit you are not okay - let alone admitting to the entire world. She's a world class athlete and role model and I'm proud to have her representing our country.

She abandoned her team when they needed her most. Instead of trying to overcome a poor performance, she quit rather than risk losing. She is the Roberto Duran of gymnastics.

She’ll be supported by our self obsessed culture in which emotional equilibrium is the highest value, no matter what the cost to those around you. But that doesn’t change what she did.

Mikeh33 wrote:

She abandoned her team when they needed her most. Instead of trying to overcome a poor performance, she quit rather than risk losing. She is the Roberto Duran of gymnastics.

She’ll be supported by our self obsessed culture in which emotional equilibrium is the highest value, no matter what the cost to those around you. But that doesn’t change what she did.

Bingo.

You know what, raise your damn kids to be like this. Teach them to bail on their teammates if they aren’t

feeling up for the fight. Tell them it’s ok to walk away if the pressure becomes overwhelming. I’ll raise my kids to do the exact opposite and you and your kids can watch my kids win games, medals and championships.

Biles will always be associated with the word ‘quitter’.

Always and forever.

Side Show Moe wrote:

Mikeh33 wrote:

She abandoned her team when they needed her most. Instead of trying to overcome a poor performance, she quit rather than risk losing. She is the Roberto Duran of gymnastics.

She’ll be supported by our self obsessed culture in which emotional equilibrium is the highest value, no matter what the cost to those around you. But that doesn’t change what she did.

Bingo.

You know what, raise your damn kids to be like this. Teach them to bail on their teammates if they aren’t

feeling up for the fight. Tell them it’s ok to walk away if the pressure becomes overwhelming. I’ll raise my kids to do the exact opposite and you and your kids can watch my kids win games, medals and championships.

Clearly some of yall never watched avatar the last airbender

+1

^this

Totally agree. She probably wasn't feeling well before the beginning, she still tried. Result = that poor vault. She had the guts to say "I quit because obviously my back-up will do better scores than I".