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To: griswold3
She had a serious (for a gymnast) condition. Very dangerous. Seems her body lost. “ muscle memory” somehow and she could not control her body in mid air. Scared her, understandably.

Hard to find too many sports where a slight mental lapse can land you in a wheelchair for life, or worse. My diver friend mentioned perhaps platform-diving. I know I wouldn't want anybody I care about to be flipping three times in the air unless they were completely mentally focused.

In most sports, if you have a major mental-lapse the consequence is that you lose. I'm all for toughing those out. When the consequence is possible paralysis? Perhaps think on it hard.

She withdrew, she lost, it's sports. It's happened before and it'll happen again.
34 posted on 08/03/2021 8:38:32 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970
Hard to find too many sports where a slight mental lapse can land you in a wheelchair for life, or worse. My diver friend mentioned perhaps platform-diving. I know I wouldn't want anybody I care about to be flipping three times in the air unless they were completely mentally focused.

I remembered when Louganis bumped his head on the platform on the way down, that could have really been much worse than it turned out to be, yeah, I don't care for his private life, but he's still the greatest diver ever.

39 posted on 08/03/2021 8:49:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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