Why would anyone (Simone) who cannot tell whether up is up and down is down compete in gymnastics of all things? That is what she says is happening to her.
People should just mind their own business rather than coming down hard on someone of whom they have no knowledge or understanding of what is going on with them. There are better ways to spend one’s time, aren’t there?
People are open to there being something physically wrong, psychologically wrong, or a combination of the two. At first, however, she said she withdrew to work on her “mental health” and her “mindfulness.” The “twisties” explanation has come later. There’s the possibility she just psyched herself out and choked in a pressure situation.
We deserve to know because she has been promoting herself as the GOAT, including a post-Olympics GOAT exhibition tour. We also deserve to know because her pulling out of the team final likely caused the loss of a gold medal for the USA. We deserve to know, because the Olympics, while ostensibly an athletic competition, is also a highly political competition.
It’s important for the USA to beat our adversaries in the medal count, particularly gold and total medals. It demonstrates our societal superiority over tyrannical regimes. Currently, the Communist Chinese — the ones who brought the world a global pandemic and four million deaths — is beating the USA in gold medals and is about even in total medals. A gold by the USA women’s gymnastics team was important in this race.