Tokyo Olympics Thread

Maybe Simone watched this video and decided better safe than sorry :noidea:

 
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gobigred said:
Did you even see her though? She didn’t look right even on practice vault. They talked about on air that It’s extremely dangerous when you lose where you are in air. She could have hurt her team and herself if she had continued. She probably shouldn’t hve done vault
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This.

Her vault was almost two points off her standard vault. And the vault she did wasn't even particularly difficult (for her, anyway), and she still flubbed it.

Again, I'm way more willing to take the stance that if she was going to withdraw, she should have done it before the meet started, because her crappy vault tanked the team score and forced them to use a lower-scoring floor routine from another gymnast that basically prevented them from catching the Russians. She gave it a shot, knew she didn't have close to her best, and pulled out so they'd at least have a shot at a medal.

Surprised this hasn't turned into a "media crowns someone else who wasn't ready yet" thread, TBH.
 
Guy Incognito said:
This.

Her vault was almost two points off her standard vault. And the vault she did wasn't even particularly difficult (for her, anyway), and she still flubbed it.

Again, I'm way more willing to take the stance that if she was going to withdraw, she should have done it before the meet started, because her crappy vault tanked the team score and forced them to use a lower-scoring floor routine from another gymnast that basically prevented them from catching the Russians. She gave it a shot, knew she didn't have close to her best, and pulled out so they'd at least have a shot at a medal.

Surprised this hasn't turned into a "media crowns someone else who wasn't ready yet" thread, TBH.
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Its already a media circus......

Mho.....she quit...."Oh golly gee,I cant handle it mentally"...

Its not her first rodeo....jeezus chryss,rub some dirt on it and get back in there.....
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These girls have been waiting for how long and trained fir how long now just to be in the Olympics knowing theres a great chance at winning gold,and the so-called goat cant handle it because of mental anguish....

Its a joke.....
 
Flipping through the channels the other night and caught the women's ping pong match between Japan and Singapore

Holy shit. Fast and Furious action for sure.
 
Wood20ks said:
Mental well being....?....

Ya,,I watched it late last night......

Thats also known as being a quitter in my book.....

Shes suppose to be a role model and teamleader... .
A teamleader goes and plays under any circumstances.....

When you are this so-called goat gymnast,you dont bow out because of issues in the greatest stage of all their careers.....
Some of those girls may never make it back to the Olympics and was their only shot at gold with her being in it........

If she was to think of someone,it should of been her teamates and not her.....

Atleast they all could of said we gave it our best.....
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What the fuck have you ever done?
 
Wood20ks said:
Its already a media circus......

Mho.....she quit...."Oh golly gee,I cant handle it mentally"...

Its not her first rodeo....jeezus chryss,rub some dirt on it and get back in there.....
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These girls have been waiting for how long and trained fir how long now just to be in the Olympics knowing theres a great chance at winning gold,and the so-called goat cant handle it because of mental anguish....

Its a joke.....
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So you know what it's like to also have been sexually abused through a majority of your childhood by a team physician, and then have the entire world watching you?

Maybe just sit this one out.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
What the fuck have you ever done?
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Played sports for many years........walkes away one timeplaying ss and a ball took a funny bounce,smacked me in the mouth where it took 4 stitches to close.....
I was back in the lineup our next game....

NEVER quit on your teammates.....

I grew up when men were men and not this pussified era.......
 
Wood20ks said:
Played sports for many years........walkes away one timeplaying ss and a ball took a funny bounce,smacked me in the mouth where it took 4 stitches to close.....
I was back in the lineup our next game....

NEVER quit on your teammates.....

I grew up when men were men and not this pussified era.......
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Didn't see you in the tough guy thread
 
Wood20ks said:
Played sports for many years........walkes away one timeplaying ss and a ball took a funny bounce,smacked me in the mouth where it took 4 stitches to close.....
I was back in the lineup our next game....

NEVER quit on your teammates.....

I grew up when men were men and not this pussified era.......
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And if that happened to you today they surely would have sat you with concern for concussion issues.

You can see that as pussified if you want, I don’t.

Nor do I see what Biles did as some travesty. It’s a sport where if your head is lost really bad things can happen.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
Didn't see you in the tough guy thread
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Ya,like Im gonna walk on over and provoke a fight with a guy 70+ plus lbs biggger than I and 3 other guys........I wonder what the chances of me coming out of that unscathed.....?

But lets compare that to a sport which I played till I was 38 and decided to walk away and bow out of the biggest competition of hers and her teammates life cause I wasnt mentally capable of doing it.....

Thats a cop out....

She was fucking up and knew it and tried to save face.....

Every athlete in the whole world has fucked up.......you get over it and go on.....


Its not her first rodeo......
 
Wood20ks said:
Ya,like Im gonna walk on over and provoke a fight with a guy 70+ plus lbs biggger than I and 3 other guys........I wonder what the chances of me coming out of that unscathed.....?

But lets compare that to a sport which I played till I was 38 and decided to walk away and bow out of the biggest competition of hers and her teammates life cause I wasnt mentally capable of doing it.....

Thats a cop out....

She was fucking up and knew it and tried to save face.....

Every athlete in the whole world has fucked up.......you get over it and go on.....


Its not her first rodeo......
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Why does it affect you so much? It's her life. Why give so many fucks?
 
Kburjr said:
They had some video of her training for individual events last night. Face planted the landing each time.

I see it more akin to the old veteran pulling himself out of the game because they realize they are hurting the team.
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I'm reading it's called "twisties"

In light of that she did the right thing.

There is really no clear correlation to a major sport because a slump in most team sports can be overcome with contributions in other ways or from other teammates. Hers would doom her team completely.
 
stakesarehigh said:
I'm reading it's called "twisties"

In light of that she did the right thing.

There is really no clear correlation to a major sport because a slump in most team sports can be overcome with contributions in other ways or from other teammates. Hers would doom her team completely.
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I think it’s more than gymnastic yips.

The young lady needs therapy and support from people close to her. (More, I’m sure he already has both.)The night before she withdrew, NBC ran a solid chunk of time on her. Some of it about her being molested and the fall out. Her parents spoke about it, in front of an entire nation of viewers. No idea what that would be like. Especially half way around the world, with nobody around you besides other gymnasts, who clearly weren’t cared for properly by America’s gymnastic community



She buried a serious amount of pain and turmoil with pushing herself as an athlete. And the shovel broke.

Wish her nothing but the best in life. She has been an exceptional example to young people. Absolutely assume she will continue to be.

No more food delivery commercials though. Those were awful.
 
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