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The amount of praise and fawning she’s receiving for quitting is pathetic. Meanwhile the girl who actually performed and won the gold is not even spoken of. Our country unfortunately has become a shadow of itself. This is what “woke” culture does to a society.
If she had these misgivings, she should have pulled out of the competition LONG before it began and given another young American woman a chance to compete!
@Ted
Yes, I agree. This is all managed duplicity to coddle the talented snowflake who was too inspired with her own delusional hollowness. Very transparent, but I thought I should walk through the double talk to demonstrate its lack of support. At least as I view it.
@Peloni
Keep in mind that she has been doing this vault everyday for months. So its not all that dangerous for her. Her first press release is what I go by.
@Laura
I totally agree. If she is afflicted with some level of mental ailment, the least significant step she owes her public, her nation and her own mental well being is to recognize the seriousness of her affliction and to not marginalize the ensuing reality of being unable to compete as being as trivial as a prozac moment. She has now more than set aside this highly esteemed position that women spend their entire youths just to join in the attempt to compete. In the same moment, though, she has trivialized the importance of this very position that she devoted her tender years towards perfecting, as she expresses its value is well beneath her commitment towards having fun. Indeed, her continued move towards public venues such as the Today Show, displays her continued commitment towards her narcissistic tendencies where her only concern is with her own state of mind. Perhaps, she truly is badly in need of therapy, and perhaps it was best for all that she make this late hour commitment to undermine the role she was awarded. Yet if she can not be honest about the reasons, even baring the details, of her rash actions, she commits the crime of deflection of her ailments as well as undermining the aspirations of future women who might now be influenced by her words of severely trivializing being involved in the Olympics. So, while her managers try to cover for her insults to their established vocation by first wrapping an uninjured leg and then stating she was suffering twisties, I have to confess that having too many alibis will likely better describe the reality of not having one. So yes, Laura, I think your reasoning is well decided and I concur entirely with your comments.
With this stated, I found Paul Watson’s commentary to be unflinchingly appropriate. As someone who does everything possible not to be involved in viewing or discussing the topic of the Olympics for a single, boring moment, I do recognize the role that such achievements as the Olympics have afforded the nations over the centuries towards a competition between the greatest athletes of the world, and offers each rising generation the onus of pursuing, to the best level of their ability, such competitions, first between nations, but also within the confines of one’s own psyche to provide the best performance of their athletic ability possible. I find such competitions to be below my personal interests, but I would never mark them as being a trivial accomplishment to achieve, or even just to pursue. I find Biles actions and comments here quite harmful and disturbing. I look forward to her impressing us in the future by simply finding a quiet place to settle her upset mood, but I suspect we will not have long before her next interview where she will further move to push her attacks upon the society that bestowed such honors upon her, while she crushed her childhood dreams of greatness.
I have been very critical of Simone Biles as being a quitter. However, I have heard that she had something gymnasts refer to as the “twisties” while in the air. That could change my perspective of her situation if true, since it would actually be dangerous for her to perform. But I hadn’t heard Simone herself claim that is what occurred, so I’m not sure if its just other people trying to cover for her by making that claim. Her own press conference made it appear her reason for dropping out was trivial. So I’m not sure at this point what to think. Until I know otherwise, I still see her as a quitter.