Posted on 07/31/2021 6:58:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
When superstar gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from team competition this past week at the Tokyo Olympics, citing emotional exhaustion that was hampering her ability to perform, the world gasped. It seemed not to know what to make of a top athlete — and, in Biles’ case, a cultural phenomenon and a singular force in gymnastics — choosing to step away from a game while it was still in play, especially the Olympics, the most venerated of sporting events.
Go f#ck yourself.
Typical uneducated journalism major I see. Idiot.
Basketball players have greater rate of injury.
Gymnasts RARELY break their necks. It's ridiculous to pretend that its something common. It's no more common than football player doing so.
It's absurd for Biles to pretend that is the reason she quit.
Nope. I’m not giving her a pass. If she claims to be the GOAT, that’s Greatest of All Time for you idiot journalism majors who never played, she needs to step up. If she’s this worried about injuries she should have never gone to Tokyo.
Doubling down on the stupid. Attaboy.
Gibberish.
No one else is reading these posts. Tell me again about Strugg and all the other people who played through the pain. What’s amusing is that not only are you wrong, you are openly admitting that your mind is so closed you cannot bring yourself to understand the situation,
That kind of locked brain must have served you well in life. The whole Observe, orient, decide, and act thing is easier when you just decide and act. Cutting out the steps that actually move you forward in life makes it easier to dig in your heels.
I read some comments on another site about simone being on adderall and japan was testing for it. That’s why she dropped out. I wonder if there’s any truth to that.
What I know is you are saying quitting is not really quitting and that facts aren’t really facts, basically denying the obvious.
Your continued response indicates to me that I must be on to something because you are the only one responding the biggest indication of this was you telling me I’m embarrassing myself, really embarrassing yourself in an Internet forum now that is rich it made me laugh
The funny part is you refuse to even address her reasons.
Typical of many of the elderly her on FR. Your personal experiences are reflected against people doing things of which you are incapable, at levels you can barely comprehend, and for reasons you do not understand.
It is akin to listening to one of the rabbits in my back yard opine on Space Flight.
The problem is the rabbit sees nothing wrong with their opinion...because they are a rabbit.
She quit it’s that simple, you can address the reasons, I have no desire to....
You keep responding to someone on a internet message forum who you’ve never met and know nothing about by trying to belittle their opinion but somehow I’m the person who can’t understand or comprehend
That’s is the epitome of arrogance and ego by someone who deep down is small minded and insecure who thinks they can belittle people into changing their opinions because of their superior knowledge or experience....it’s pointless and dumb but you keep doing it....
I wonder how long I can keep you going.....
And you keep answering with the same answer. One that shows your complete lack of knowledge.
And yet you keep answering.
And answering.
The last time I had one on the hook like you I got them up to 30 replies before they realize I was making a monkey out of them.
So now I’m a monkey, so that is why I can’t comprehend and understand things.....
You are just like a lot of liberals I know who attempt to argue by hurling insults and belittling people...it’s a sign they don’t have much else....other than a straw man argument about not answering their questions and repeating my answer...
That’s all you are going to get, it’s my opinion and I don’t have to justify or clarify it to anyone....
Let’s also remember you started the discussion because you disagreed with my opinion.....
If 30 is the magic number I can keep going.....
https://www.astrogymnastics.com/post/myths-about-gymnastics-being-a-dangerous-sport
On other hand, the facts are showing that injury rates from gymnastics are way less than people can think of. With amateurs it is 0.687 injuries per every 1000 gymnasts. Less than one person in a thousand will get somehow hurt by doing gymnastics. Contrary, in amateur soccer (high school athletes) the rates are 2.06 injuries per 1000 athletes. The basketball considered the most injury prone sports with 34.1 injuries per 1,000 population.
Bro, I hope your articles are written better than this.
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Your comment that displays your complete stupidity on this and possibly all other topics.
So it’s gone from no chance of breaking a neck to rarely breaking a neck. You’re flopping more than Fauzi. As Bugs would say, what a maroon!
Debbie Thomas was extremely successful. Seems she also came down with bipolar disorder. Not quite Simone Biles problem.
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