Remember this a few weeks ago. She needs help handling this. She is bordering on the classic one hit wonder who can't live up to her perception of others' expectations:
"I'm not sick. I'm not hurt. I'm not out of shape," Simpson said, breaking into tears. "I just had a shameful performance today, and I'm really sorry to all the people that care about me and work so hard with me."
"I have no excuse," Simpson said. "I'm in really good shape. The workouts indicate I'm in good shape. I'm ready to run. The one thing I could say, if I could give any tidbit to people following in my footsteps, it's don't let anyone talk to you about the final until you're in the final. It's so hard when you're a (world) medalist moving into the next year, especially when you have nothing like a crutch, like an injury or something to be like, 'If it doesn't go right, I can blame it on this.'
"I have nothing. I'm in great shape and I feel good. You just have to earn every single step, and I think I thought about the final before I had earned it."
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