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Simone Biles Says She's Working On 'Mindfulness' After Exiting Women's Gymnastics Team Event

Posted on 07/27/2021 1:09:25 PM PDT by jroehl

It took me 3 hours to finally hear this on a replay of a news conference on Fox news. How many Freeper's have dramatically altered their life to work on mindfulness? Am I uniquely naïve for wondering this?


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KEYWORDS: belongsintrash; chat; jroehl; mindfulness; nolink; notnews; samonebiles; snowflakeathlete; sports; vanity
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To: jroehl
Simone Biles Says She's Working On 'Mindfulness' After Exiting Women's Gymnastics Team Event

Yeah, keep us up to date on that.

41 posted on 07/27/2021 1:35:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: jroehl

Call a WAMBULANCE


42 posted on 07/27/2021 1:36:49 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PeteB570

Not everybody is a good leader. You can never tell what happens when you put somebody in a leadership position until they are there. Some people crash and some people flourish.

I’m sorry if it will cost the US a few medals, but I’m not going to criticize her for it. I won’t


43 posted on 07/27/2021 1:36:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: jroehl

The woke choked.


44 posted on 07/27/2021 1:37:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: jroehl

I wonder what the news coverage will be like here in the Houston area. She lives in the area and the NBC affiliate station has been non-stop Simone Biles once they started hyping the Olympics. I doubt they are saying much about it (I wouldn’t know because all I can stomach of the news is traffic & weather).


45 posted on 07/27/2021 1:39:05 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: JennysCool

Problem is that you don’t realize she is part of the “woke” problem.


46 posted on 07/27/2021 1:39:24 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: jroehl

She’s 24 and probably not highly educated because she spent her entire life training intensely

Her focus and desire have cracked because, as she’s admitted, pressure of the situation, long-term injury, and realizing her body can not give us much as even 5 years ago. She’s realized she’s no longer at her peak and will not win

So she’s backing out and relying on the automatic cheap slogans of our present day society, just like she went cheap “woke” before.

Its not a good situation - I feel bad for both her, and her teammates


47 posted on 07/27/2021 1:39:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: jroehl

I think we used to refer to the condition as: The Choke.


48 posted on 07/27/2021 1:39:55 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: dynachrome

My impression of her is that she’s not racial, so I would be surprised if she started spouting racial rhetoric. I haven’t heard her say anything along those lines.


49 posted on 07/27/2021 1:40:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: V_TWIN

Probably something like that. Gotta give all those other countries a chance instead of the big bad USA.


50 posted on 07/27/2021 1:40:47 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: GMThrust

Who knows what goes on in a person’s mind?


51 posted on 07/27/2021 1:40:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: jroehl

To be honest, the media coverage treating her like she’s some sort of goddess has got to be setting an impossible standard in her head. The bigger they are, the harder they fall as they say, and she’s got to be terrified of being anything less than perfect, and nobody is perfect.


52 posted on 07/27/2021 1:41:18 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Satan was the first libertarian.)
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To: jroehl

MY QUADRENNIAL PEVE: Something that is subjectively judged in order to achieve and ordinal ranking of contestants is not a sport and has no business in the Olympics.


53 posted on 07/27/2021 1:43:21 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I doubt they are saying much about it (I wouldn’t know because all I can stomach of the news is traffic & weather).

I guess there are two ways they can go:

  1. double down and practically canonize her, calling her "courageous" for "making her choice" and puffing her up even more, or...

  2. Drop her and let her sink like a stone. No one will remember her at all in a few weeks, whichever way they go.

It'll be interesting to see which they choose. Her actions have ensured there can be no middle road.

My guess is they'll do both. They probably have the canonization videos already made. They'll run them a time or two, then pull them totally and never mention her again.

54 posted on 07/27/2021 1:43:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: jroehl

She’s practicing to become Serena Williams.


55 posted on 07/27/2021 1:45:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Roughly translated, I believe she means that, per Kenny Rogers, she “needs to see what condition her condition is in”.


56 posted on 07/27/2021 1:47:01 PM PDT by laconic
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To: frogjerk

IIRC the US women’s Olympic gymnastics team has in the passed been critisized for the lack of diversity on the team.

Now I know why.

She gets to the pinical of her sport and quits?? Highly questionable


57 posted on 07/27/2021 1:49:06 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Sans-Culotte

I can’t even stomach the traffic and weather.
and HazyHotHumid and Delays shutdownAlternateRoute

This place is a zoo. And the animals are running wild


58 posted on 07/27/2021 1:53:22 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. OR THE MASK)
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To: jroehl

Like do many younger people she has bought into the psychobabble sector. There are thousand of idiots with degrees in behavioral pseudoscience and they invent all these crackpot ideas to fool people and get paid for it. Mindfulness is the latest in nonsense from these birds. Another phony counselling scam.


59 posted on 07/27/2021 1:56:46 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: V_TWIN
in the passed

Past.

been critisized

Criticized.

gets to the pinical

Pinacle.

60 posted on 07/27/2021 1:57:36 PM PDT by humblegunner
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