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

Maybe because everybody knows she's far and away the best, they can just award her and the USA team

the gold anyway without actually having to compete. Only fair.

above_average_joe wrote:

I noticed one strange thing: it seems many Americans are happy that their star athlete had to pull out? Is it because Boris is posting from St. Petersburg? Or what else could it be that Americans don't like about her? Mmhhh....

No. Far from it. Americans are lamenting the lack of toughness that you took for granted at the Olympic level. "Mental issues" was a term previously reserved for actual, serious psychiatric conditions. Now, a case of nerves = "mental issue". It has become a catch all phrase along with "panic attack" and "anxiety attack".

above_average_joe wrote:

I noticed one strange thing: it seems many Americans are happy that their star athlete had to pull out? Is it because Boris is posting from St. Petersburg? Or what else could it be that Americans don't like about her? Mmhhh....

It’s the commie magamorons. With her being out it makes it easier for Russia to win and since in our upside down world Russia is now our biggest ally they root for Russia. Anything to own the leftist libs.

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.

Yes, comrade, now the very powerful Russians break the weak willed Americanskies once and for all!

Very strange to just leave your team in the middle of the team competition. But what that tells us is that the US team is not very deep. Can’t win without her.

If she's all of a sudden "OK" for the all around and the individuals, what she did here is totally bogus.

6403 wrote:

If she's all of a sudden "OK" for the all around and the individuals, what she did here is totally bogus.

Especially since there's another us women that would have given anything to compete in her spot for a team medal

6403 wrote:

If she's all of a sudden "OK" for the all around and the individuals, what she did here is totally bogus.

Certainly that would not look good for her. All this about so much pressure on her is lame. Its the Olympics, champions have pressure, so do those who want to medal but never have. Yes there is pressure in the Olympics.

wejo wrote:

Thing I don’t get is why doesn’t nbc show the vault. I’m watching today show and they have Hoda telling us what happened. Yet on NBC Olympics .com they are showing the competition live.

Does nbc not want to broadcast it so other entities don’t put it on news?

Perhaps she had a minor physical injury and doesn’t want to jeopardize all the other events she has.

NBC is likely saving it for their prime time programming tonight?

I agree I'd guess it's more psych but she also had a nagging lower leg injury. But how they're not ruling her out for individual event competition in a few days makes me doubt a physical injury that would wipe her out for team competition and lose out on the team gold medal to Russia but then be ok a short time later. Her injured is still better than anyone else we had.

NBC keeps calling her the greatest gymnast of all time. The pressure crushed her and she bailed.

bare knuckles wrote:

6403 wrote:

If she's all of a sudden "OK" for the all around and the individuals, what she did here is totally bogus.

Certainly that would not look good for her. All this about so much pressure on her is lame. Its the Olympics, champions have pressure, so do those who want to medal but never have. Yes there is pressure in the Olympics.

For her sake and the teams I really hope she doesn’t say it’s mental. The best athletes in the world are strong physically and mentally. You don’t quit because you “aren’t felling it” that day. Runners prove this with every race. It hurts every time but you get out there and finish

100%….

Need to stop throwing this title of “goat” around

BekeleKip wrote:

NBC keeps calling her the greatest gymnast of all time. The pressure crushed her and she bailed.

No one would have cared if she tried and failed. She's 24(very old for the sport). Thousands of girls would give anything to beninher spot (mckala skinner).

Why are all these us athletes (Osaka is us) having so many mental issues? Same with our nba stars. Too much time on social media?

The reactions on Twitter.....

This is female privilege. If a male superstar in nfl or nba quit on the team in the super bowl due to mental pressure they would be vilified.

But a cute female: "Praise girl! You are always the GOAT!"

One would have to think the thoughts of what their social media accounts will have in store for them after they compete is in the back of many of these contemporary athlete’s minds.

You live by the sword and you die by it.

Is there an option for younger, up and coming athletes to not have these accounts or is that simply not the way the world works?

takesavillage wrote:

bare knuckles wrote:

Certainly that would not look good for her. All this about so much pressure on her is lame. Its the Olympics, champions have pressure, so do those who want to medal but never have. Yes there is pressure in the Olympics.

For her sake and the teams I really hope she doesn’t say it’s mental. The best athletes in the world are strong physically and mentally. You don’t quit because you “aren’t felling it” that day. Runners prove this with every race. It hurts every time but you get out there and finish

I’d like to caution everybody about jumping to conclusions before all the facts are out. Reminding everybody about the Brazier bashing on this site as being soft until he was seen wearing a boot. More importantly, the mental health angle is real and not about being soft or not. Biles is suddenly soft, like she has a character flaw after winning multiple Olympic and WC golds? Look at what just happened to Osaka too. If the issue is now one of mental health, it should be viewed in the same vein as a physical injury, no more no less. Whatever is going on, I hope Biles and Osaka recover because they are awesome athletes.

OlympicMedalChaser wrote:

BekeleKip wrote:

NBC keeps calling her the greatest gymnast of all time. The pressure crushed her and she bailed.

No one would have cared if she tried and failed. She's 24(very old for the sport). Thousands of girls would give anything to beninher spot (mckala skinner).

Why are all these us athletes (Osaka is us) having so many mental issues? Same with our nba stars. Too much time on social media?

I dunno, but maybe a once in a lifetime pandemic that is still ongoing, worldwide upheaval, nationwide lock-downs, a steady diet of negative media news, social isolation and routine disruption has something to do with it.

What a joke. Im sorry, but if an nfl qb quit on his team it would be a huge stain on their record.