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"After further medical evaluation, Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games," USA Gymnastics said in a statement posted on Twitter Wednesday night.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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What’s an Olympics?
Replaced by a white chick? That’s gonna set the shtruggle back a couple of decades.
RISE UP, AMERICA!
WE NOW NEED A WARRIOR LEADER, NOT A POLITICAL ONE.
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.
You are “hearing whispers” they were going to give free points to her opponents huh?
From BLM?
Chuckle.
Was that written by BLM or by the illegitimate Dementia Joe regime? Because every word of if us a lie.
Here’s cheering for Jade Carey!
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.
It must be so hard for blacks to succeed in athletics...
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.
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.
The statement said Biles will be evaluated daily to see if she can "participate in next week’s individual event finals."
[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.
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.
That type is well known.
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.
Until young Communist athletes turned on America and its founding principles, I actually cared.
Geez. Stop making excuses for her.
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.
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