I’m fine with her saying no, if she doesn’t feel up to a performance that could break her neck. She should say no.
People don’t have to make it a racial thing.
“People don’t have to make it a racial thing.”
I never thought of this issue as racial in any way. It was more an entitled snowflake issue, IMO.
The whole article is about how it IS a racial thing, a new protest technique. So obviously some people perceived it that way.
Whether she was thinking of it this way, I don’t know. But one thing that must be influencing a lot of athletes is that morale appears to be the pits in this year’s Olympics. Between the politicization, racial hatred and absence of spectators, it’s not surprising that some of them are acting weird.
I think it’s so cute and I think it’s so sweet
How you let your friends encourage you to try and talk to me
But let me stop you there, oh, before you speak
Nah to the ah to the, no, no, no
My name is no
My sign is no
My number is no
You need to let it go
You need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the, no, no, no...
NO by Meghan Trainor
We all remember Debbie Thomas failing. Still ended up with the bronze-failure. Now she lives in a trailer. O.J. did it. Americans enjoy watching people fall but can get really disappointed when the person is black.
CSPAN did an interview with the black author of “Ditch Digger’s Daughters”. It’s about a black man who successfully raised his daughters into become M.D.’s. She disclosed that it was the white community that supported her book more than blacks.
So what’s the answer? The black community to come to grips with their self defeating issues when success is staring them in the face. Whites will continue to see them as living down to what is expected of them. Bill Russell(winner) told the NBA HOF to screw themselves while Wilt(loser) banged 20,000 women.
Super Bowl(minus stars) gonna be awesome. The show goes on with marginal players who need the job.
“I’m fine with her saying no, if she doesn’t feel up to a performance that could break her neck. She should say no.”
I agree.
They said yesterday that she had what gymnasts call “the twisties” It’s a loss of proprioception - not knowing where your body is in space.
“Swiss gymnast Giulia Steingruber got the twisties in 2014. “When I wanted to twist, especially on vault ... I had no feeling where I am. I was really scared,”
True. The olympics separates the best from the rest. Physically and mentally. If she had a failure of mental focus , strength and will she just cleared a spot for a superior athlete to take the spot.
There is no chance of her breaking her neck. There are pads everywhere. Skate boarding skiing and pro wrestling all have far more dangers than gymnastics.
She quit on her team because she didn't want to embarrass herself.
True GOATS (greatest of all-time) suck it up under pressure. Michael Jordan lead a team to a championship while playing with the flu. Tom Brady won a Super Bowl last year playing with a torn MCL. Kirk Gibson hit a game-winning home run hitting with an injured leg.
I wonder how people would have reacted if a top male athlete had done what she did?