Posted on 07/31/2021 5:00:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, she’s very young and has a crappy pr person. She did have that vertigo thing and landed on her back during a training session. People need to leave her alone.
Conspiracy theory #908289
BLM was blackmailing her to pull some kind of stunt in the medal ceremony.
The point is that she isn’t “The Greatest Of All Time” - GOAT - that she promoted herself to be. When a great athlete faces a challenge, he rises to it. Or at least TRIES.
Imagine Muhammed Ali ducking a fight. Imagine Joe Montana saying, “I’m not sure I’m my best. Send in the second string!”
She’s been wearing a GOAT on her clothes heading into the Olympics. Then chokes. OK, that happens. But choking isn’t praise-worthy. And the true greats of a sport? The GOATs? They don’t choke, which is part of what makes them the greatest.
“ Is America a country of hospitality or cruelty?”
America is a country of people, and historically America was the lunch table for the oddballs, and oddballs tend to be kind and ever on the lookout for breakout talent in their midst. Hospitality? Like what, in Middle Eastern countries? Cruelty, like what? In those very same countries?
We are a country of the grateful and the ungrateful I think.
And I hope Biles is able to get in a better headspace soon. She isn’t just the breakout talent, she is also a member of a society that has a lot of uncommonly kind people.
“Conspiracy theory #908289
BLM was blackmailing her to pull some kind of stunt in the medal ceremony” Now .. . wait just a minute .. . I thought Conspiracy theory #908289 was, “BLM spelled BACKWARDS is “MLB” !!!
Americans can take a loser, but not a quitter.
The truth is she's done more by the age of 24 than ANYONE here commenting has done in their entire life.
??? She's a gymnast. It's great and all but to say she's done much, and done more than anyone here commenting?
She's done the same thing over and over since she was a child. Well, that and endorse products and encourage others to do the same thing over and over.
At that level, it's all mental and it happens to even the best of athletes. Read the history of golfer Ian Baker Finch or MLB infielders Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch who suddenly forgot how to throw a baseball......
Who comes up moronic ideas like that, and why aren’t they embarrassed to say them in public?
There’s always people waiting to punish the successful if they are less than perfect. I’ve experienced this myself. Probably deep rooted issues with jealousy and self inadequacy.
But again, I will say that if she was a Trump supporter everyone here would immediately change their position on her. And that's sad.
Biles is already loaded down with gold from the last Olympics. She just realized she wasn’t at the top of her game. She’s smart.
A baseball player or a golfer isn’t going to break his neck if his pitch is bad or his swing is off. Well, could hit the batter.
As you said, it happens to athletes and performers, and if they could kill themselves or someone else, they need to take a beak.
In a paradigm bounded by hospitality and cruelty, nobody really belongs. Its just a place you visit and then do a Yelp! review.
Maybe its the West coast East coast thing, West being “nice” but not kind, and the East not bring “nice” but instead being kind.
And what is up with making literally EVERYTHING about abortion?!?
Another good MLB parallel might be Alex Rodriguez. He didn't have the same mental issues that Sax and Knoblauch faced, but his career took an unusual turn after he signed that enormous contract with the Texas Rangers. After a few years he did something that was unthinkable in pro sports: Not only did he ask for a trade from the Rangers because he thought his huge contract made it impossible for the team to build a contending roster, but he offered to renegotiate his contract for a lower salary to accommodate other teams that might trade for him.
The Rangers had a deal to send him to the Red Sox, contingent upon a renegotiated contract. But the MLB player's union intervened and said the contract could not be renegotiated. That's how he ended up on the Yankees, who were the only team that could afford to pay him under the terms of his original contract.
I have a hard time believing that a fear of injury really drove her decision here. Not that it couldn’t happen, but I don’t see how that happens in the course of just a few weeks since the Olympic trials.
Learned.... what happens in the swamp stays in the swamp.
I could have written that!
Well put.
I was wondering, has she played the race card yet? If not I would respect her for that.
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