Simone Biles admits she should have quit before Tokyo Olympics

[concise]

 

[levitate]

OK…?

Suni got the juice now.

 

[FaTaL]

She should of, what a distraction

 

[Neil Tyson]

no shyt

 

[Hey_zeus]

GOAT went out sad

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

OK…?

Suni got the juice now.

yes she does

 

[get these nets]

Her legacy as the goat gymnast has already been set.

Her public reveal of her struggles helps her moving forward, in terms of opportunities. She was Superwoman before, a real life super hero. Now that people know that she has kryptonite too, more women will be able to relate to her.

 

[DikDrizzle]

She only competed since her teammates were over shadowing her getting praise ..

Weak

I'm a millionaire I have anxiety waaaaaa

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

 

[beenz]

She should of, what a distraction

she wouldn't have gotten a bag if she had done that tho.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

A lot of us on here flat out said that she shouldn't have went as it was obvious that her heart wasn't into going, yet others on here kept insisting otherwise.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

She was wack as hell for this past Olympics. She should have sat her nervous ass down somewhere

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

she wouldn't have gotten a bag if she had done that tho.

She's getting the bag from the tour that they are about to go on as she's sponsoring it along with two other groups I believe. Kicked the US Gymnastics organization off the tour as it was the only way that she'd participate.

 

[Beck.er.]

The 24-year-old said she finally buckled under a range of stresses at the July event — including the unresolved trauma of having been sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

“I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry Nassar was in the media for two years,” the gymnast told New York Magazine. “It was too much. But I was not going to let him take something I’ve worked for since I was 6 years old. I wasn’t going to let him take that joy away from me. So I pushed past that as long as my mind and my body would let me.”

The diminutive Texan said she knew her withdrawal from Tokyo was inevitable after she developed a case of the “twisties” — a severance of communication between mind and body.

When the condition strikes in the midst of a high-flying gymnastics feat, the consequences can be dire.

“Say up until you are 30 years old you have your complete eyesight,” she said of her airborne instincts. “One morning, you wake up, you can’t see s—. But people tell you to go on and do your daily job as if you still have your eyesight. You’d be lost, wouldn’t you?”

Biles, who has amassed 32 Olympic and world championships — including a gold and a silver medal in Tokyo — said that race has also ratcheted up her internal pressures.

“As a black woman, we just have to be greater,” she said. “Because even when we break records and stuff, they almost just dim it down. as if it’s just normal.”

 

[Beck.er.]

The thing is... no one was better than her.
She didn’t “take someone else’s place on the team”, she beat every woman who competed against her at the nationals and the trials. It was their job to earn it and they didn’t.

The US had no chance at a team gold without Biles. Biles off her game is still a better bet than the girls that couldn’t do well enough against her to make the team (I’m pretty sure they got sent home with Covid anyway).

And it’s not like she owes “the US”, the fans and definitely not the pedo enabling fukkers at USA Gymnastics anything anyway.

She won her opportunity and took her shot.