Earlier on Twitter, he fumed over her departure. “Are ‘mental health issues’ now the go-to excuse for any poor performance in elite sport? What a joke,” he wrote. “Just admit you did badly, made mistakes, and will strive to do better next time. Kids need strong role models not this nonsense.”
He wasn't done excoriating the gymnast, who won four gold medals at the Rio Games.
“Athletes are now deemed more courageous, inspiring & heroic if they lose or quit then if they win or tough it out, which is ridiculous,” he added. “I blame Twitter's virtue-signallers for fuelling this culture of celebrating weakness. The real world doesn't think like that.”
BINGO!
It started with Phil Donahue and was massively amplified by Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jessy Raphael, and countless others.