Simone Biles
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No, they called someone in off the street.
Sigh, I mean, are there always four girls in the team event? Or there were 3 plus the alternate?
Fair points. As I said, it just rubs me the wrong way. And I don't mean to sound like "just suck it up" but part of it is just that. I mean jackie robinson didn't just say OK I played 15 games I'm done now this is too tough. But part of me is like OMG you had trouble at your job or were frustrated, guess what so do the rest of us. We have a support group for it, it's called "the bar."
This is pure bullshit. The amount of pressure varies among athletes and running and many other factors. No one on these Olympics had more pressure than Simone Biles. The expectations for her are greater than any other athlete there. It appears those pressures caused a crack in her mental edge which destroyed her confidence and ability to perform. That likely exacerbates the pressure she feels and further damages her ability to perform. Continuing on and failing might be more than she can handle mentally. Good on her for recognizing that and trending to her psyche rather than the desires of others to watch her perform.
I would suggest that this is an example of mental fragility and not mental acuity.
You simply don't get how pressure builds and can become overwhelming. I'm guessing most of you who are calling Biles out have never been in a pressure packed situation where your nerves are so on edge you don't know if you can perform.
She's more celebrated because she's far, far more accomplished in her career. I'm not sure why you don't seem to understand that simple point.
It was me. I did a somersault for floor and a sweet 360° on beam. We took home silver.
What high pressure
Situations have you been in that you can lend us losers your expert opinion on?
Tim Dillon kind of says it best here.
Yeah I have no idea how pressure builds working in a high pressure environment at Broadway and Wall in NYC. Where one mistake can cost millions. No clue.
You're normally good, but if you're going to call me out at least be right.
I’m talking about their performance from yesterday. She is getting more praise for what she did than they are for what they did.
(it was just a joke to say everybody has moments they hate their job and we get through it. Wethere its a signfciant others, meeting friends at the bar or kickboxing)
Wrong. Been there. In sports, but more importantly outside of sports when my future, my families future was on the line. And not just, get through this night and it will all be over, tomorrow is a new day. That's sports. No, dealing with the pressure over months and months and no way to escape it.
Not really, the point is great athletes often get to the breaking point. Jim Brown quit football at the height of his career. So did Barry Sanders. I think a going catcher who was doing very well quit recently as well.
Tennis championship matches, pitching baseball championship games, golf championship matches. All of them there was tremendous anxiety that grew depending on the situation. Some were overcome successfully, others weren't.
It's a lot easier watching from the couch.
She's more celebrated because she's far, far more accomplished in her career. I'm not sure why you don't seem to understand that simple point.
I totally agree. I am not going to debate the mental health thing because I am sure we can all agree it's an issue for many people at least once in their lives and it's very serious. However... if, as an example, Lebron (who I don't like), started game 7 of the finals 0-7 from the field with a 0/0/0/0 stat line and just said "I quit. the pressure it too much and I am mentally fatigued" everyone would CRUSIFY him (myself included).
How is this different?
If you want to try to equate that, fine, but that's very, very common to most in business and is far different, imo. There's no spotlight on you forcing you to perform at your best at that moment. Sure there's anxiety in that, but you often have others to share the pressure with. This type of pressure is far different.
No offense but it's not just about others desire to see her perform. There are hundreds of elite gymnasts who would kill to get the opportunity to compete in the Olympics. I'm not blaming Biles for her decision and certainly not for her mental state but I do find it selfish that she pulls out at the 11th hour. The U.S. team wouldn't be as good with a substitute for Biles but it would be better that having one less gymnast at the final hour plus there is a gymnast who didn't make the team who didn't get a chance to compete because Biles said she was ready. Biles must have had symptoms prior to this week.
You do understand that the pressure in Tokyo is like no other, right. There was zero pressure at the trials...Biles was on the team. But in Tokyo she not only has to compete, she has to be transcendant. There's a straw that breaks every camel's back and the Olympics is a big f'n straw.
Like you have any more Fing clue than the rest of us.
Get off your high horse, the fall is gonna hurt.
I have plenty of idea how pressure builds. So do a lot of medical experts. Every study says it just doesn't manifest itself, its not TV.
I could get that if it was her first olympics, maybe. But it isn't. And yes a straw breaks a camels back. But, there are warning signs or problems long before that. She competes a month ago, but now an olympics with nobody in the stands, in the middle, is too much? Not when she landed? Not when she was on the team plane? But in the middle of the competition?
and one less person had their dream come true.
(if she said two months ago, I can't do it an alternate would have gotten her spot and someone else the alernate spot).
And its like when guys sit out the bowl game. We crucify them around here. Whoever takes over for TJ cause he doesn't play so he can be drafted, sadly, by the Lions is less good. Same concept here.
