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Simone Biles Withdraws From Individual All-Around Competition
Fox News ^ | 07.28.2021 | Edmund DeMarche

Posted on 07/28/2021 1:52:22 AM PDT by USA Conservative

Simone Biles, the superstar gymnast from the U.S., will not participate in the individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Games and will instead focus on her mental well-being, USA Gymnastics said in a statement early Wednesday.

The decision comes a day after she pulled out of the team all-around competition.

Jade Carey, who finished ninth in qualifying, will take Biles’ place in the individual all-around competition.

"After further medical evaluation, Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games," USA Gymnastics said in a statement posted on Twitter Wednesday night. "We wholeheartedly support Simone's decision and applaud her bravery in prioritizing her well-being. Her courage shows, yet again, why she is a role model for so many."

The statement said Biles will be evaluated daily to see if she can "participate in next week’s individual event finals."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blm; choke; communists; olympics; quitter; scared; simonbiles; simonebiles
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She quit and gave gold to Russia she’s unamerican what a sad excuse to represent us at the Tokyo games!
1 posted on 07/28/2021 1:52:22 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

What’s an Olympics?


2 posted on 07/28/2021 1:58:27 AM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: USA Conservative

Replaced by a white chick? That’s gonna set the shtruggle back a couple of decades.


3 posted on 07/28/2021 1:59:25 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: USA Conservative
THE ENEMY HAS BEEN GIVING AMERICA'S GOLD AWAY TO FOREIGN PLAYERS SINCE THE CLINTONS !

RISE UP, AMERICA!

WE NOW NEED A WARRIOR LEADER, NOT A POLITICAL ONE.

4 posted on 07/28/2021 2:01:15 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: USA Conservative

I’m hearing whispers that she was told that her competition would be given a boost in final score to make them more competitive against her. If this is true, she was right to walk away.


5 posted on 07/28/2021 2:05:37 AM PDT by trailboss800
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To: USA Conservative
Is anyone surprised by this pathetic acting up? Nope.
Naomi Osaka set the new standard of withdrawing from important competitions citing the inevitable “mental stress”. Biles first of all lets her team down in the team event so the Russians can win, and followed it up be letting herself down too.
Train hard for 4 years then act up when you are supposed to deliver.
6 posted on 07/28/2021 2:06:46 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: trailboss800

You are “hearing whispers” they were going to give free points to her opponents huh?
From BLM?
Chuckle.


7 posted on 07/28/2021 2:08:43 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: USA Conservative
“We wholeheartedly support Simone's decision and applaud her bravery in prioritizing her well-being. Her courage shows, yet again, why she is a role model for so many.”

Was that written by BLM or by the illegitimate Dementia Joe regime? Because every word of if us a lie.

8 posted on 07/28/2021 2:11:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: USA Conservative

Here’s cheering for Jade Carey!


9 posted on 07/28/2021 2:16:12 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Satan was the first libertarian.)
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To: USA Conservative

Even the least perceptive young person must have realized that doing a bunk from the team competition and then competing as an individual would lose her every bit of sympathy and wreck her brand.


10 posted on 07/28/2021 2:18:52 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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To: USA Conservative

It must be so hard for blacks to succeed in athletics...


11 posted on 07/28/2021 2:24:38 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SmokingJoe
I’d dismiss the tennis players out of hand. They’re professionals who get paid huge sums of money to compete in their regular tournaments. I’m surprised many of them even bother competing in the Olympics at all.

For gymnasts, the Olympics are the only event where they get much public exposure at all. And your comment about “training for four years” misses an obvious point: In this case it’s FIVE years because the 2020 Olympics are being held in 2021. I wonder how much this disruption and COVID-related anxiety has to do with some of these meltdowns.

12 posted on 07/28/2021 2:26:01 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes to all that.
About the tennis players, Osaka withdrew from the French Open after she was fined for declaring she’d boycott all press conferences. She then refused to turn up for Wimbledon as well. Those are two of the 4 majors with all the money, prestige and publicity that come with them.


13 posted on 07/28/2021 2:31:39 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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The statement said Biles will be evaluated daily to see if she can "participate in next week’s individual event finals."

*****

They Call Her Queen B

JULY 27, 2021 BLIND GOSSIP

[Blind Gossip] One of the reasons team sports are so interesting is the necessity to balance not only their talents, but their egos as well.

Like many teams, this team has a star… and then everyone else.

That’s a problem.

This star may be the most famous member of their team, but that doesn’t mean that they are the most popular member of the team.

In fact, the other team members are decidedly unhappy with their star right now.

I only talked to one of the girls about the situation but supposedly they all feel the same way. They are super pissed off. She said that [Star] is acting like a f*cking prima donna. They are competing with injuries and giving it 110% while she is quitting.

They are sick of her getting all the attention when she is the most selfish teammate ever. Demanding and whining, always expecting special treatment, totally out for herself.

They call her Queen B, but the B doesn’t stand for a name like Beyonce.

Queen B = Queen Bitch.

Ouch.

What do they think the real reason is for her quitting the team competition?

They don’t have to think about it. They KNOW the real reason why she quit! She wants to save herself for individual glory because that’s where the sponsor dollars are.

They hate her right now. Of course they would never ever say that to the press. They will smile and act like one big happy fake family.

While her Olympics -sized ego and failure to put her team above herself means that Queen B’s own teammates hate her right now, that’s of little importance to Queen B.

She is still the greatest at getting all the attention.

All the glory.

And all the dollars.

14 posted on 07/28/2021 2:32:33 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Tax-chick

Her brand has been built up beyond what is sustainable thanks to way too much fawning media coverage. That fawning coverage is going to continue, and all the fake sweetness, light, and spin is going to make people turn away and tune out. Everyone loves a winner so if she delivers a win later, people will tune back in. Meanwhile you have some pretty spectacular wins in swimming and other events.


15 posted on 07/28/2021 2:34:38 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Satan was the first libertarian.)
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Demanding and whining, always expecting special treatment, totally out for herself.

That type is well known.

16 posted on 07/28/2021 2:40:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: USA Conservative

Why are so many here so quick to criticize this gymnast? She’s an incredible athlete, but she was making mistakes that she does not typically make. By dropping out, she lets another gymnast take her spot. If she’d stayed in, people would criticize her then, too.


17 posted on 07/28/2021 2:42:48 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SmokingJoe

Until young Communist athletes turned on America and its founding principles, I actually cared.


18 posted on 07/28/2021 2:48:46 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: trailboss800

Geez. Stop making excuses for her.


19 posted on 07/28/2021 2:54:22 AM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: USA Conservative

Haha why does this matter? I hope the Americans lose every event, the entire thing is a show designed to denigrate what used to be normal Americans. The Olympic team doesn’t represent me or my ideals, so I give AF for them.


20 posted on 07/28/2021 2:55:25 AM PDT by KobraKai
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