Posted on 07/31/2021 5:00:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Obviously wrote it last month expecting a gold medal.
Well the biggest problem is the media has spent the last 18 months selling this Olympics as the Simone Biles show. Cause the media are idiots and don’t know how to sell the largest sporting event on the planet except by highlighting a couple of people. Then she gets herself a bad case of the yips, decides she’d rather not bust her neck, and steps away. Meanwhile the media has been prepared to talk about her almost exclusively for 2 weeks. So what do they do? Keep talking about her, cause they didn’t bother to do any legwork and have anything prepped to say about the other couple thousand athletes there. I mean they didn’t even have anything prepped for Sunisa Lee even though she’s got a pretty awesome story.
The media have never comprehended how to cover the Olympics. And never will.
My favorite All-Time Olympian is Shun Fujimoto.
He nailed his landing, despite a broken leg to help Japan win the Gold Medal in the Team competition.
If anyone should have lit the Olympic Flame in Tokyo, it should have been him. Instead, it was some gaijin, who hadn’t even lived in Japan since she was 3, and barely speaks the language.
Well put.
Simone Biles is the role model young girls/women need today; she has done her self, her country, and the gymnastic industry proud over the years. Unlike that pink-haired soccer player who won't even stand for her country, a traitor to her Nation.
I’ll leave her alone when she stops calling herself the GOAT. When the media and other morons stop lauding her as some sort of “hero”. She quit. Whatever her reasons, she quit. That’s no hero, and that’s no GOAT.
The “White Knight Beta Cucks and Soy Bois” are out...
LOL, nice turn opf phrase, especially for an old man like me. Hall monitor?Lol
LOL. . .good one.
Hah. . .really? Where was the wreckage? The link to the paper article?
What about the lost crew, their bodies, their families and death notifications, and pictures of the wreckage, and the guys taking people to see what they had done (bragging about it, after all), and the helo inventory being down a helo, and those guys lived to brag about it and. . .so on. . .
But other than that, totally believable.
Concur.
That's charitable of you since my comment addressed the mental aspect of sports only. A lapse of confidence will destroy you, the yips in golf and baseball (both mentally induced) will also destroy you......as it will in any other muscle memory sport.
Photograph on tv local news. Brief story.... done... like it never happened. Like I said... erased.
Like I said— made up
“That being said, if she comes out and calls me a Racist because I’m a White Male and I support POTUS Trump, she can go F**k herself. Until then she gets the benefit of the doubt.”
She supports BLM so she just might
“That being said, if she comes out and calls me a Racist because I’m a White Male and I support POTUS Trump, she can go F**k herself. Until then she gets the benefit of the doubt.”
She supports BLM so she just might
“In a slap to the face of all those who came before and performed, some poorly, some not so, few quit but strived to forge on..”
I never thought of that. I’ve been following gymnastics and skating for decades, and don’t remember any other top contender quitting for mental health reasons.
How about Kerri Strugg, that did a vault with 2 severed ligaments in her ankle?
Saw a piece on Strugg recently, she healed up just fine.. That was pre-’Twisties’ days I reckun.
I hope Simon gets the help or relief she needs.
IF she saves one disoriented gymnast from crunching their skull, I guess that’s a silver lining.
We agree on something!
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