Simone Biles withdraws from team final competition due to mental issues

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

actually yes...
1. i dont care about athletes like that. they only human.
2. i've felt similar pressure on my job. i snapped at the bosses and told them i would quit rather than do that BS they wanted. i got tired of being the go to guy for everything. im involved in everything but this brown noser gets paid 20k more so i snapped. then i started not answering TEAMS calls and avoiding meetings.

Being "the man" , " the woman", the "one" is a serious mental drain

Kudos to you for speaking up then, because a lot of other people wouldn't have been bold enough to speak up and would have kept about it. A lot of people aren't mentally built like that to speak up for themselves in the workplace and would rather deal with it themselves than speak up.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

That still doesn't change the premise of our point though?????

She wasn't obligated to participate in the Olympics. If she didn't feel up for it mentally, then she could have easily sat out and no one would have said a word because her legacy was already set.

If she didn't want to be there and her heart wasn't into it, then don't go.

She tried to push through. Her and Jordan Chiles are best friends. You think she knew this was gonna happen? She was trying to keep going.. You don't have a point. There's no point to be made. That's what's going on.

You'll probably be mad if she tries to do the individual events too.. but i'm not gonna knock it either way.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Kudos to you for speaking up then, because a lot of other people wouldn't have been bold enough to speak up and would have kept about it. A lot of people aren't mentally built like that to speak up for themselves in the workplace and would rather deal with it themselves than speak up.

one thing about me. I am not a yes man and i am a wildcard. I'm the best wildcard to have because i am the smartest person in the room, but i know i am mentally unstable. Everybody does

 

[Lannister]

She has nothing left to prove. She's still leagues above most other people. So if she wants to dip out and regain her bearings so be it.

All this pressure for a racist ass country who doesn't respect you as a human being outside of your athletic achievements . If you don't make the country look elite, then you become a "******" real quick.

 

[blockburna420]

What if she just had the bubble gutz and just couldn't do it

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

That still doesn't change the premise of our point though?????

She wasn't obligated to participate in the Olympics. If she didn't feel up for it mentally, then she could have easily sat out and no one would have said a word because her legacy was already set.

If she didn't want to be there and her heart wasn't into it, then don't go.

she pushed and tried for the new younger people. A lot of that team would rather have their leader with them on the side rather than watching it at home.

 

[Ziggiy]

She has every right to bow out especially regarding her past with athletics.


My only issue is she took somebody's place

This whole “she took somebody else place” argument makes no sense.


If she’s the GOAT then that means nobody DESERVED her place to begin with. Because she’s BETTER than anyone who competed for that spot

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

She tried to push through. Her and Jordan Chiles are best friends. You think she knew this was gonna happen? She was trying to keep going.. You don't have a point. There's no point to be made. That's what's going on.

You'll probably be mad if she tries to do the individual events too.. but i'm not gonna knock it either way.

She spoke about the Olympics before they happened and she sounded like she wanted no part of it breh. If that was the case, then don't go at all! No one is obligated to participate in the Olympics just because they qualify for it.

You're making it a bigger deal and making assumptions about my comments just to try and prove your point

 

[Prodyson]

So u don’t think she should do individual events? Those double pikes are going to be just as difficult. So he can clear her head for herself but not her team?

It’s up to her. But it’s really none of my business. I have no control over her mental state and I’m not gonna try to control how she approaches it. That’s for her and her team to figure out. My guess is that they have a better understanding than either of us do since they actually do what she does and have her as a teammate. Why are we always trying to police people and their actions… let their peers handle that. It really has no effect on us at all.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

This whole “she took somebody else place” argument makes no sense.


If she’s the GOAT then that means nobody DESERVED her place to begin with. Because she’s BETTER than anyone who competed for that spot

She did take someone else's spot if her heart wasn't into it and she wanted no part of going. She spoke for months about her heart not being into it, yet she still went anyways. Regardless of whether she was better than anyone else competing doesn't change the fact that her heart wasn't into it.

We tell people all the time to speak up and not do something if their heart isn't into it and this situation isn't any different. It's the same concept that we've been saying about Osaka and her mental health issues, so it's hypocritical to take a difference stance in this instance.

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

lmao, Simone Biles has won more than anyone that's why she the GOAT you see all the Gold Medals she got

and she only dropped out of the team competition

and I'm glad she did, she get still get all the Gold Medals as an individual, and USA will hopefully lose and not a Gold Medal as team

because the fukk the USA, all they've doing is routing for Biles and Sha'carri to fail

Good for her

So was Phelps and he kept going




but either way hopefully the pressure being off helps her

 

[HarlemHottie]

Hell GABBY eventually admitted she was being assaulted too. She was just in denial when everything exploded, trying to save her good girl image, and willing to throw her teammate under the bus

Wow.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

she pushed and tried for the new younger people. A lot of that team would rather have their leader with them on the side rather than watching it at home.

I get it, but at the end of the day she gotta do what's best for her and her mental health instead of caving into public pressure and the expectations around her. It's the same thing we've been saying about Osaka not participating in tournaments and getting her issues in order if she doesn't feel that she can handle it. Hell, you could tell even Osaka wanted no part of the Olympics and only did so because of the expectations that came from it being in her own country.

She sounded defeated and mentally drain about it and it was obvious that her heart wasn't into it.

 

[Ziggiy]

She did take someone else's spot if her heart wasn't into it and she wanted no part of going. She spoke for months about her heart not being into it, yet she still went anyways. Regardless of whether she was better than anyone else competing doesn't change the fact that her heart wasn't into it.

We tell people all the time to speak up and not do something if their heart isn't into it and this situation isn't any different. It's the same concept that we've been saying about Osaka and her mental health issues, so it's hypocritical to take a difference stance in this instance.

So Simone with her “heart” not being in it for months is still BETTER than everyone else who went for the same opportunity and spot. Meaning she ain’t take shyt from nobody because NOBODY could take it from her. If you want to be the best you have to BEAT the best. This ain’t the boyscouts where being a moral oral is celebrated. This is COMPETITION and if you’re telling me nobody could beat a halfway-there-mentally Simone Biles for a spot in COMPETITIVE sports then THEY didn’t deserve it point blank period.


I have no problems with debating whether or not the optics of her quitting NOW is “wrong” or deserving of criticism. But people saying she should of thought of her COMPETITION on some “I’ll just let these chicks who couldn’t beat me on their best day have a spot because…morals” is stupid as fukk

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There's no other great gymnasts for the U.S. anyway that didn't make the trip... Jordan and Suni are good and the two white girls are ok. Nobody else deserves to be there just because.