[Svartalfiar]

A point that I made on another thread yesterday. Is it possible that USA was able to salvage the Team silver because Biles withdrew? I don’t know how the team competition gets scored.

Not really. Each team has four gymnasts, there's four events, and they take three scores for each event. So for each event, you can take the gymnast who's weakest on that event and they don't have to do it. With Biles quitting, the rest of the team HAS to do each event, even if it's not one they're great at.

So sure, it helped the team if she *knew* she was gonna fail on them, but with her skill set and experience, there's no reason anything short of an actual injury should have hurt her (normally very high) scores.

Another gymnast can take her spot for later events, but for the one she quit during, there is no substitute. It was still up in the air whether she even would pull out of the remaining events, but it sounds like she was told she better or it'll look really bad if she skips the team stuff only to "come back" and win the individual stuff.

[Tallguy]

Thanks for the clarification on team scoring. I've been waiting for that.

but it sounds like she was told she better or it'll look really bad if she skips the team stuff only to "come back" and win the individual stuff.

I think you have that nailed. Eventually it will leak out that either the coach, the Team or some 'advisor' suggested that she pull-out because of bad optics.

I would say that this hurts 'her brand' in the long-run, but we live in such a therapeutic society now, who knows? Simone Biles as the next 'Dr. Phil'? Maybe a regular guest hosting gig on 'Oprah'?

[ltc8k6]

She’s still scheduled for the individual events where she can win her own medals. Let’s wait and see if she recovers quickly enough to win her own medals.