Well- I don’t agree at all with what she did. She reneged on her commitment to her teammates. That is fvcked up. If one is struggling with mental health, sort it out before getting on the plane to Tokyo, or just stay home. If I were her teammate I’d have some choice words for her.
I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
www.latimes.com
If this is the case, our media is once again doing a disservice by framing this as a mental health issue.I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
Something about losing track while spinning around up in the air or something.
Doesn't sound like something you could just muscle your way through.
Simone Biles had 'the twisties.' A gymnast explains the sport's dreaded mental block
Gymnasts and coaches explain how many cope with "the twisties," which prompted Simone Biles to withdraw from team and all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
I'm okay with her quitting. I'm not okay with her calling herself the GOAT. Those two don't correlate, she needs to mature a bit more.
Described as a “mental block.” The same as when a kicker gets iced in football or a 90% FT basketball player clanks a free throw at the end of a game. Pressure situations. Could she be hurt much worse than those situations? Yes - but bottom line is she had no confidence. “Twisties” is a clever moniker for that.I don't think that's the kind of mental health she was referring to.
Something about losing track while spinning around up in the air or something.
Doesn't sound like something you could just muscle your way through.
Simone Biles had 'the twisties.' A gymnast explains the sport's dreaded mental block
Gymnasts and coaches explain how many cope with "the twisties," which prompted Simone Biles to withdraw from team and all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
Agree with your conclusion about good upbringings. But it still doesn’t give her a pass. She was fine competing in the last Olympics. The pressure is what got to her. Maybe her mental makeup was negatively influenced by the events you described - but we all are products of our upbringings to an extent. Some overcome it. Others don’t. But an Olympic athlete, abused as a child or not, should know if she mentally isn’t there well before the day of the competition.
Time and place for her past. Not the olympics. She selfishly also screwed her team.
Being on the Olympic team is not compulsory. It's a privilege that many athletes would kill for. If you can't "deal with your demons in front of billions", you should let someone else take your place. Can you imagine Tom Brady deciding, the day before Super Bowl, that he has some unresolved issues from his past and that he's going to sit it out. I wonder how many people would be defending him (this is a rhetorical question; the answer is "zero").
I'd suck it up like the time I didn't win for my team in high school and train to be stronger next time. But I'm a man, not a woman, so I don't know what it's like to have or be a pvssy.
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So she did what women always do. lol
