Simone Biles withdraws from team final competition due to mental issues

[cobra]

Americans are mentally weak

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Simone let her whole team down it wasn’t even an injury

Your mental comes before that team ..
fukk that team

 

[mson]

Osaka, Biles, Richardson....#blackgirlmagic down bad this Olympics
who left that we care about? Allyson Felix?

Osaka lost?

Edit: forget it.

 

[pete clemenza]

Mental issues is taking over in sports

 

[Max.]

Osaka got smoked last night by some Russian too

 

[mson]

she already got her gold medals and this olympics is already shytty and should have been delayed.. so good for her

It was delayed already. Might as well skip to the next Olympics if you're going to do that.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Sounds like she dropped out the team events so she can focus on the solo events. Am I reading this right or am I wrong? Its been a long night.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Agreed. In fairness though, if this had been Serena Williams........she would have gotten ROASTED way more then Naomi Osaka. Even with female athletes, we play favorites. Naomi isn't threatening GOAT status so people are going to be more sympathetic to her, even though it is kinda hypocritical of her to wanna show her face for the good shyt but hide from the bad shyt.

Men will get more heat because of the $$$$.

Simone is cute and likable, so she might not catch as much heat (maybe). Plus the sexual abuse stuff from the Team USA doctor will give her some leeway. Serena would never get the same leeway. Naomi is getting leeway but she'll get some heat too if she keeps winning and doing interviews/photo shoots after wins but slinks off during losses.

The media would go full wrath and fury if Serena were pulling the same stunt that Osaka is doing. Even Aaron Rodgers is looking at a situation where he won't be able to avoid the media and will have no other choice but to answer questions about what's transpired this season and will feel the fury of the media if he tries to say that he wants no part of talking with them.

With Osaka in particular, I feel like she wants to reap the benefits and enjoyment of being a celebrity and all that it brings, but don't want to do the media obligations in her sport that allows her the chance to become said celebrity and public figure. If I was a tennis media person, I'd feel a certain way if Osaka didn't want to answer my questions but were perfectly fine and content with answering questions from another news and celebrity outlets.

 

[Monsanto]

That's a disingenuous take to lump those athletes together seeing as Naomi Osaka got more sympathy for her mental health issues in the press than say someone like PG and Kevin Love. Even The Coli is hypocritical with their stances when it comes to mental health as they treated Osaka's issues with kid gloves, but will turn around and crack jokes around PG13 and Kevin Love's mental health issues.

The reason I speak up about Osaka is that she's perfectly fine with showing up on TV and doing interviews and such, but is scared to touch the mic and talk when she takes her losses. You don't want to talk to the press, but you're perfectly fine with accepting ESPY awards in front of a large group of people or doing magazine covers and interviews. Her success in tennis has made her into the popular athlete that she is now, so it's disingenuous and unfair not to answer their questions when they've helped promote her and become who she is now.

Before you say the media isn't needed for athletes, that's a lie and even you know that.

Negative and positive reinforcement. Reporters going over your every mistake while the world watches and you are your own greatest critic.

Versus people acknowledging your triumphs despite the failures.

I really don't understand why a photo shoot and accepting an award are equivalent to being grilled for 30+ minutes to some of you.

She has her own inadequacies to face, all the media does is barrel into that. That affects her and only her in a way that you nor I can deal with as we watch it. One after the other.

I see them as human as well, and the stresses of their job is tenfold just based off of training and performance. As strong as they are they can't be stonewalls without these things affecting them, they go through a cycle of emotions. The media is a blessing and curse for their brand. She's established and can organize matters according to how she wants. That's her prerogative and the consequences that follow.

 

[director_of_bands]

smart move...disassociate from that sht show

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Negative and positive reinforcement. Reporters going over your every mistake while the world watches and you are your own greatest critic.

Versus people acknowledging your triumphs despite the failures.

I really don't understand why a photo shoot and accepting an award are equivalent to being grilled for 30+ minutes to some of you.

She has her own inadequacies to face, all the media does is barrel into that. That affects her and only her in a way that you nor I can deal with as we watch it. One after the other.

I see them as human as well, and the stresses of their job is tenfold just based off of training and performance. As strong as they are they can't be stonewalls without these things affecting them, they go through a cycle of emotions. The media is a blessing and curse for their brand. She's established and can organize matters according to how she wants. That's her prerogative and the consequences that follow.

It's an equivalent because it's a part of the expectations and obligations that come with being a celebrity/public figure. Do you think she'd be getting those photo shoots and awards if she wasn't having success on the tennis counrt? Her being an athlete and having success allows her to reap the benefits of being a celebrity and public figure.

It's like an actor/actress wanting to reap the benefits of a movies success and what it brings, but not wanting to put in the work of doing media interviews to support and promote said film.

Those tennis news outlets have a job to do just as much as those other news outlets that Osaka are perfectly fine and content with doing promotions for.

 

[cobra]

imagine a Russian gymnast quitting due to mental health

Putin would send her to a gulag in Siberia

 

[Black Lightning]

Simone doesn't have to prove shyt to anyone.

She's the most dominant gymnast of all time.

Her legacy is etched in stone.

 

[Master Teacher]

These athletes don't owe anybody shyt

 

[Master Teacher]

imagine a Russian gymnast quitting due to mental health

Putin would send her to a gulag in Siberia

Nobody cares about Russian athletes, they all on steroid programs, nobody watches the olympics for anyone but black athletes that's why they the only ones who get talked about and cacs like you are mad