Sympathy for Simone Biles
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
7/28/2021 10:29:23 AM
Simone Biles, the main reason anyone wants to watch the Olympics, given her thrilling artistic gymnastics, has pulled out of the U.S. team events, and since then, even the individual all-around event, citing her mental health (snip) Certain people on the right, who shall be nameless, criticized her as a "quitter." Others said she was too self-focused, and still others said she was a wokester or snowflake.
But that's not fair to her, given that she wanted to win. Her decision was practical and quite selfless in that in pulling out she gave the rest of her team the placement to win the silver
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Laotzu 7/28/2021 10:41:33 AM (No. 859986)
She already had fame and money. She did what needed to get the pity she was craving.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/28/2021 10:46:48 AM (No. 859994)
Choke artist.
She took a place on the team that someone who was hungry, and wouldn't quit, didn't get.
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What I find most annoying is her nonchalant attitude during interviews. All smiles; no indicators of anguish or pain - physical or mental.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 7/28/2021 10:58:17 AM (No. 860007)
She quit, not the qualities of an Olympic Champion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/28/2021 11:14:08 AM (No. 860027)
People outside the family don't have enough information to make an informed judgement of Ms. Biles' decision.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/28/2021 11:17:41 AM (No. 860031)
And the athlete whose spot she took ? the one who was ready ? naw .:tv wants ratings ..she is a goat ..go away tosser ..
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 7/28/2021 11:23:28 AM (No. 860039)
She will regret this the rest of her life.
Most athletes thrive on pressure as does anyone trying to better their careers.
She better have a hell of a comeback or this is all that she and everyone will remember.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/28/2021 11:23:28 AM (No. 860040)
"..the main reason anyone wants to watch the Olympics.."
wow.. i don't even know who she IS..
no WONDER i don't want to watch the BLMpics..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/28/2021 11:25:42 AM (No. 860042)
If she gets "help" and finds a job at Walmart to fill in her time, I'll buy it. She's a "veteran" that has cashed in. Now it's too much pressure. She knew the job was dangerous when she took it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/28/2021 11:30:47 AM (No. 860047)
I’ll give Biles the benefit of the doubt in quitting, BUT these problems didn’t crop up overnight. They had to be evident during training, and she should have retired then and there if she felt she didn’t have it. I am with No. 2 on this.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/28/2021 11:31:07 AM (No. 860048)
If anybody is wondering why these Olympics have terrible rating don't look any further than Biles.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jimincalif 7/28/2021 11:42:56 AM (No. 860062)
Her withdrawal saddens me. The lack of empathy for her saddens me even more. She's a proven winner, but even winners have bad days. She's only human. The mental aspects of competing at this level are significant. She may be too old to come back in gymnastics, but I wish her success and hope to see her smiling face celebrating a victory in the future.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/28/2021 11:49:55 AM (No. 860073)
She quit! Tom Brady didn't quit when they were down to Atlanta 28 to 3 at halftime! We are becoming a nation of quitters and navel gazing self centered wolksters! She must now take the cute little goat off her clothes...because she no longer is!
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There will be none from me. Go away, and take the Wokelympics with you.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/28/2021 11:57:28 AM (No. 860091)
Quitters never win. She just normalized "quitting" in sports. She shouldn't have gone if she wasn't going to give it all she had. Her spot on the team belonged to the "next Simone" to gain experience for the next Olympics.
In the 1966 Tokyo Olympics a Japanese male gymnast KNEW he had a broken leg yet did his routine on the high bar KNOWING his dismount would require him to land on that leg and take the pain. He did it and landed it. Now that's a winner.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
subal 7/28/2021 12:02:09 PM (No. 860103)
What about the other 1,000 participants?
She thinks she is the only one under pressure???
QUITTER!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ming 7/28/2021 12:08:06 PM (No. 860108)
As far as I'm concerned, Simone and the Olympics deserve each other.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SALady 7/28/2021 12:10:51 PM (No. 860113)
It wasn't that long ago that Kerri Strugs severally sprained her ankle doing a vault. But she knew that she had to do a second vault and nail it or her team would not get the gold at that Olympics. So she braved the pain and did that vault -- giving the USA team the gold. She had to be carried off, and the pain of the whole incident was incredible for her. But that is what being part of a team used to mean.
Now we are a society of snowflakes. Simone Biles needed to "suck it up" and bring up all the strength that she had in her to do this competition. As soon as the team competition was over, she could leave and go deal with her "demons" in private. But, instead, she let her team down.
Lie-berals have spent decades trying to destroy the classic American symbols of teamwork and competition. Sadly, Simone may just have proved that they have succeeded!!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 7/28/2021 12:12:38 PM (No. 860116)
She already is an Olympic champion times 5. This just means she won't be a 6 or 7 or 8 times Olympic champion. I wish she had resolved these issues before the games started but she didn't. I can't really blame her for not wanting to do dangerous routines (like on the bars and beam) when she is mentally not all there.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/28/2021 12:14:15 PM (No. 860118)
Contrast her "performance" in quitting with that of Emmitt Smith in the final game of the 1993 season vs the NY Giants for the 1993 NFC East title and a playoff bye. For those whose eyes are rolling back in their heads, this was back when football was not yet a commercial for black democrat supremacy and players only took a knee when someone was injured. Smith separated his shoulder in the first half, rendering his right arm essentially useless. He wouldn't come out of the game, which included Overtime, as his logic was that only a win would earn him an extra week off to heal, and the Giant's defense was for real, smelling blood in the water. Every time he was tackled, lineman Nate Newton or one of his teammates pulled him up so he could go back to the huddle. Tied in OT, he carried the ball on 9 of the 12 plays of the final drive to win the game, home field advantage, the 1st round playoff bye, and the Super Bowl.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/28/2021 12:14:20 PM (No. 860119)
Wow! Tough crowd here this morning...
Poster #8, google her and watch some of her performances. Absolutely amazing. She's been touted as the best female gymnast ever.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Tennman 7/28/2021 12:24:26 PM (No. 860130)
Agree with the "tough crowd today". My thoughts are she wasn't on her A game and knew it. Rather than taking the whole team down she benched herself. Luke a good teammate would do.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ladyhawke 7/28/2021 12:34:30 PM (No. 860152)
My sympathy is with Jade Carey. Despite finishing 3rd all around in the qualifying competition, she was left off of the 4 member team squad. Why was that? Her deficiency seems to be that she is white and blond!
I am delighted she now gets to compete! But this “woke” nonsense needs to end.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/28/2021 12:44:56 PM (No. 860166)
Just another failure with a list of excuses. Go sign up at Burger King honey where you might work your way up to kitchen manager one day.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 7/28/2021 12:45:40 PM (No. 860169)
And let's not forget Jordan Chiles who was thrust into the spotlight because of Biles. She did well in vault and balance beam, then had a disastrous floor exercise from which the USA could not recover, handing the Gold to the ROC. She'll have to live with that terrible olympic memory for the rest of her life. You saw her with her head buried in her hands while Simone was chorling for the cameras afterwards.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 7/28/2021 1:10:05 PM (No. 860204)
Clay and Buck had an interesting take on this.
Imagine it's the Super Bowl at halftime. Suddenly, Tom Brady announces that the stress of the game is too much for him, and he's going to sit out the 2nd half. What would be the reaction? Would Tampa Bay regret signing him? Why didn't he retire instead of starting with another team, only to let them down?
Biles should have dropped out during the tryouts, opting to retire, if she "couldn't handle the stress."
She's a quitter, sorry Monica. Watch less Oprah and choose something with sense to watch.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 7/28/2021 1:38:08 PM (No. 860239)
Chortling, not chorling.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 7/28/2021 2:01:39 PM (No. 860266)
Sounds like a snowflake to me. But....ultimately, I don't really care much either way.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/28/2021 2:13:30 PM (No. 860278)
Certain people on the right, oh really. You wanna know what the problem is for young people, you and the media filling their young heads with political propaganda. She's not a quitter, her head is probably spinning from all of the bullsh** she hears. Who's kneeling, who's not kneeling, does she sing our countries national or the black national anthem, do you get vaccinated or not get vaccinated and yes 2+2 doesn't = 4 anymore. In 6 freakin months these kids have had political correctness pumped into their heads and everytime they turn around they're looking for a white supremacist. She's a victim of our sick society. Got it.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/28/2021 2:19:55 PM (No. 860285)
Is anyone asking about the sudden emotional and mental state her decision placed her teammates in?
They were expecting Simone to handle things, and provide a certain level of performance, then suddenly it was thrust upon the remaining members to handle things in her absence. I'm sure this added a significant amount of mental stress to perform up-to Simone Biles standards just to maintain a medal finish.
Remember, Simon Biles is a grown woman of 24 whereas most of her teammates are barely 18.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
armywife85 7/28/2021 2:39:00 PM (No. 860302)
She will come to regret her decision one day. She will never know now if she would have been able to push through and deliver. She is 24 years old...she is not new to the pressure of this level of competition and if she had things going on at this time that wouldn't allow her to deliver then she should have stepped aside prior to going to Tokyo so some one else that was perhaps ready to compete could have lived their dream.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Pam 7/28/2021 3:01:58 PM (No. 860336)
My guiding saying of many years.
If you have done your best,
if you have given your all
And yet have not succeeded,
At least you have not failed.
Ms Biles may not have wanted to fail.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 7/28/2021 3:34:51 PM (No. 860370)
It's hard to know what others are going through, even when we "know" them, much less only see them on TV. But I wonder if there would have been a little less pressure in the cooker had she stuck to her landings instead of trading the fame she earned through sports for opining on political hot buttons that have nothing to do with why she's famous.
It's almost eerie how prescient and self-fulfilling her tweets regarding Trump supporters and Jan 6 would later become for some of her own supporters:
"embarrassed but not surprised
disgusted but not surprised
sad but not surprised
angry but not surprised
speechless but not surprised"
She's no mental health hero. She just choked. The end.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 7/28/2021 4:49:31 PM (No. 860444)
I certainly wish Simone well. I'm sure I must be wrong but a couple times I thought I noticed her belly was a tiny bit puffy and I wondered if she may be pregnant and was afraid of hurting the child. Like I said I'm sure I must be wrong and it was the view of the cameras. Whatever the case, she did what she thought was right for her.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
buckeye1 7/29/2021 4:17:09 AM (No. 860897)
There is little to no information about what happening. I will neither judge or second guess her choice on withdrawing
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