so sick and tired of gymnastics Olympics coverage

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. Also, why does Simone Biles always get the vast majority of coverage? There are hundreds of other athletes with interesting and inspiring stories.

Because, simply. she is the GOAT. No ifs, why, but about it.

She’s really good, but she lacks the ethereal grace and softness of classical gymnasts.

Just say it. You mean she’s not white. Gymnasts have never displayed “softness.”

Do some of you ever skip the opportunity to play that card?

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Same
I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

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I'm a super womens Rugy fan now.
I don't understand the sport but the players are funny, relatable and their instas are awesome.
30 BMI ! Oh the horror - now you are a medal winner! Love it.

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I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

It’s not over, because the individual all-around and event finals are still going. And her “train wreck” floor will likely win the gold medal.

In the current scoring system, extreme difficulty trumps execution, which works in Biles’s favor. But the things she can do are amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. Also, why does Simone Biles always get the vast majority of coverage? There are hundreds of other athletes with interesting and inspiring stories.

Because, simply. she is the GOAT. No ifs, why, but about it.

She’s really good, but she lacks the ethereal grace and softness of classical gymnasts.

You mean the waif-like under 16 year old from the Karoly era?

You are putting words in the poster's mouth.

The gymnastics of today is artless and imprecise.

You can:
-call me a terrible person
-say well since I am an athlete what do I know
-call me stupid

And I still stand by what I said.

I take the power and athleticism of today’s gymnasts over the anorexic era.

Why does it have to be power and athleticism with more grace and fluidity. No one is missing anorexia. Stop projecting your BS onto other posters.

There is no doubt that in one sense, Simone is the most athletic and acrobatic of the group. She does the most difficult moves on many of the apparatuses. However, she also is imprecise and artless. It is all power and no finesse.

It's actually for that reason I would love to see Suni Lee win the gold in the individual all around. At these games she seems more fluid and graceful than Simone.

Sorry, meant to say why does it have to be power and athleticism without also having grace and fluidity. Biles does amazing tumbles, but she is herky jerky and misses a lot of her landings. One part of gymnastics is also control. Anyway, not saying she is not great, but for some of us she is not as enjoyable to watch.

And some of us are in awe of what she can do…such a joy to witness.

Especially what Biles does - very high up! - in the air - amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:Same
I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

It’s actually not close to over and literally no one scored higher than her in qualifications.

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I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

It’s actually not close to over and literally no one scored higher than her in qualifications.

Haha that PP has no idea what they are talking about it's hilarious. I look forward to them discovering that not only is gymnastics not over but there's actually 4 more days of it and Simone Biles will be competing in every remaining event except the uneven bars apparatus final (and there she is first alternate so she will compete if anyone else pulls out for any reason). Because she's so good that even though she got hurt in the middle of qualifiers she still managed to qualify for nearly every event final.

But yes it's a mystery why there is so much focus on her -- the greatest female gymnast in the world and perhaps of all time -- here in her last Olympics where she is favored to win 4-5 gold medals. So confusing.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. Also, why does Simone Biles always get the vast majority of coverage? There are hundreds of other athletes with interesting and inspiring stories.

Because, simply. she is the GOAT. No ifs, why, but about it.

She’s really good, but she lacks the ethereal grace and softness of classical gymnasts.

You mean the waif-like under 16 year old from the Karoly era?

You are putting words in the poster's mouth.

The gymnastics of today is artless and imprecise.

You can:
-call me a terrible person
-say well since I am an athlete what do I know
-call me stupid

And I still stand by what I said.

I take the power and athleticism of today’s gymnasts over the anorexic era.

Why does it have to be power and athleticism with more grace and fluidity. No one is missing anorexia. Stop projecting your BS onto other posters.

There is no doubt that in one sense, Simone is the most athletic and acrobatic of the group. She does the most difficult moves on many of the apparatuses. However, she also is imprecise and artless. It is all power and no finesse.

It's actually for that reason I would love to see Suni Lee win the gold in the individual all around. At these games she seems more fluid and graceful than Simone.

Sorry, meant to say why does it have to be power and athleticism without also having grace and fluidity. Biles does amazing tumbles, but she is herky jerky and misses a lot of her landings. One part of gymnastics is also control. Anyway, not saying she is not great, but for some of us she is not as enjoyable to watch.

Every time I see comments like this I know they’re from someone completely ignorant of the sport. Nobody talks like this about snowboard tricks. You want them to be athletes but on your terms, not the terms of the actual sport. There is so much more to a vault than the stuck landing, but average viewers know so little about preflight, post flight, the block, form in the air, etc that they can’t even assess those things and just focus on a .1-.3 landing step. You sound ridiculous to anyone who knows even a little bit about the sport. Like saying Tom Brady (or trout if you want to do baseball) lacks the flair of Mahomes (or Harper) and isn’t fun to watch.

This. Not understanding that when a gymnast for instance adds a half twist to a vault that results in a blind landing everything about the vault becomes more difficult including the landing. The may need more speed and a better block off the vault in order to get enough height and velocity to complete their rotation. They will not be able to spot the floor before landing so must be able to go by feel and aerial awareness in knowing where the floor is and getting their body in position for impact. They must be tighter in the air in order to complete the extra half twist but also know when to adjust their tightness to safely land and cushion their landing using their knees and hips while also maintaining balance. And also landing coming out of a twist results in horizontal torque as you land which is more destabilizing than the rotation created by a flip which can pull you off balance if you over or under rotate but otherwise directs your energy into the ground and is therefore more conducive to a "stuck" landing. I guess if you don't understand all of that then you might watch someone do an insanely difficult and rarely done vault or tumbling pass and yawn at the speed and height and rotation of the skill but then throw a tiny fit in your living room because the gymnast took a small step or hop upon landing.

Apply to be a gymnastics judge at even the lowest level competition with that approach and let us all know how it goes. Even baby gymnasts understand how silly this is.

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Anonymous wrote:Same
I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

Clearly you have no clue what’s going on.

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Anonymous wrote:Same
I'm glad it's over.
Simone is good and gets all the coverage but many many scored higher and her floor routine was a train wreck.

Clearly you have no clue what’s going on.

That is incorrect

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we pretend to care about gymnastics events at the Olympics when we don't care 99% of the other times between Olympics? Gymnastics sucks anyway because it requires subjective judging. Any sport that requires judging is lame.

There needs to be far more coverage of things like archery, shooting, and heck, even skateboarding if we are going to watch sports with judges. Gymnastics is so boring and lame.

Pay $8 for peacock and stop complaining. I've seen lots of archery and equestrian and anything I want.

Why are you saying stop complaining? Why can't we complain about corporations?

Because there is an incredibly cheap, quick and easy to access solution to this "problem." The only reason someone would complain about this is if they really, really wanted to be unhappy about something.

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Anonymous wrote:100% agree OP. Also, why does Simone Biles always get the vast majority of coverage? There are hundreds of other athletes with interesting and inspiring stories.

Because, simply. she is the GOAT. No ifs, why, but about it.

She’s really good, but she lacks the ethereal grace and softness of classical gymnasts.

You mean the waif-like under 16 year old from the Karoly era?

You are putting words in the poster's mouth.

The gymnastics of today is artless and imprecise.

You can:
-call me a terrible person
-say well since I am an athlete what do I know
-call me stupid

And I still stand by what I said.

I take the power and athleticism of today’s gymnasts over the anorexic era.

Why does it have to be power and athleticism with more grace and fluidity. No one is missing anorexia. Stop projecting your BS onto other posters.

There is no doubt that in one sense, Simone is the most athletic and acrobatic of the group. She does the most difficult moves on many of the apparatuses. However, she also is imprecise and artless. It is all power and no finesse.

It's actually for that reason I would love to see Suni Lee win the gold in the individual all around. At these games she seems more fluid and graceful than Simone.

Sorry, meant to say why does it have to be power and athleticism without also having grace and fluidity. Biles does amazing tumbles, but she is herky jerky and misses a lot of her landings. One part of gymnastics is also control. Anyway, not saying she is not great, but for some of us she is not as enjoyable to watch.

Every time I see comments like this I know they’re from someone completely ignorant of the sport. Nobody talks like this about snowboard tricks. You want them to be athletes but on your terms, not the terms of the actual sport. There is so much more to a vault than the stuck landing, but average viewers know so little about preflight, post flight, the block, form in the air, etc that they can’t even assess those things and just focus on a .1-.3 landing step. You sound ridiculous to anyone who knows even a little bit about the sport. Like saying Tom Brady (or trout if you want to do baseball) lacks the flair of Mahomes (or Harper) and isn’t fun to watch.

This. Not understanding that when a gymnast for instance adds a half twist to a vault that results in a blind landing everything about the vault becomes more difficult including the landing. The may need more speed and a better block off the vault in order to get enough height and velocity to complete their rotation. They will not be able to spot the floor before landing so must be able to go by feel and aerial awareness in knowing where the floor is and getting their body in position for impact. They must be tighter in the air in order to complete the extra half twist but also know when to adjust their tightness to safely land and cushion their landing using their knees and hips while also maintaining balance. And also landing coming out of a twist results in horizontal torque as you land which is more destabilizing than the rotation created by a flip which can pull you off balance if you over or under rotate but otherwise directs your energy into the ground and is therefore more conducive to a "stuck" landing. I guess if you don't understand all of that then you might watch someone do an insanely difficult and rarely done vault or tumbling pass and yawn at the speed and height and rotation of the skill but then throw a tiny fit in your living room because the gymnast took a small step or hop upon landing.

Apply to be a gymnastics judge at even the lowest level competition with that approach and let us all know how it goes. Even baby gymnasts understand how silly this is.

I'm a committed gymnastics fan, but I get what the first poster is saying. Simone is simply the greatest gymnast of all time. Her technique is incredible and allows her to do things that no one else can do. She deserves all of the attention and accolades that come her way.

On the other hand, her artistry isn't top-notch. And that's fine because, in an open-ended code, the difficulty of her gymnastics makes up for it. Those ethereal athletes of yesterday did simple tumbling passes beautiful. What's amazing about gymnastics today is that is room for different types of athletes and styles. Some have more artistry, and some have more high-flying skills. You don't have to have a starving ballerina body to be the best gymnast in the world. If you don't have the massive tumbling, you can use artistry and dance elements to increase your scores.

If you watch NCAA gymnastics, you will see an emphasis on doing less difficult routines as well as possible. That is fun to watch, but on the other hand, there are no routines that take your breath away like watching Simone launch herself to the rafters and come back down does.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we pretend to care about gymnastics events at the Olympics when we don't care 99% of the other times between Olympics? Gymnastics sucks anyway because it requires subjective judging. Any sport that requires judging is lame.

There needs to be far more coverage of things like archery, shooting, and heck, even skateboarding if we are going to watch sports with judges. Gymnastics is so boring and lame.

Pay $8 for peacock and stop complaining. I've seen lots of archery and equestrian and anything I want.

Why are you saying stop complaining? Why can't we complain about corporations?

Because there is an incredibly cheap, quick and easy to access solution to this "problem." The only reason someone would complain about this is if they really, really wanted to be unhappy about something.

Great trick by NBC, make the free coverage unbearable so we have to pay to use Peacock to see quality coverage. They will make millions if not billions by this rude. But you call this a "solution", it actually sounds intentional.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we pretend to care about gymnastics events at the Olympics when we don't care 99% of the other times between Olympics? Gymnastics sucks anyway because it requires subjective judging. Any sport that requires judging is lame.

There needs to be far more coverage of things like archery, shooting, and heck, even skateboarding if we are going to watch sports with judges. Gymnastics is so boring and lame.

Pay $8 for peacock and stop complaining. I've seen lots of archery and equestrian and anything I want.

Why are you saying stop complaining? Why can't we complain about corporations?

Because there is an incredibly cheap, quick and easy to access solution to this "problem." The only reason someone would complain about this is if they really, really wanted to be unhappy about something.

Great trick by NBC, make the free coverage unbearable so we have to pay to use Peacock to see quality coverage. They will make millions if not billions by this rude. But you call this a "solution", it actually sounds intentional.

Looking at the schedule, right now racewalking, women's handball, men's golf, and table tennis are on regular cable/online services (I checked Fubo). Is that not enough?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we pretend to care about gymnastics events at the Olympics when we don't care 99% of the other times between Olympics? Gymnastics sucks anyway because it requires subjective judging. Any sport that requires judging is lame.

There needs to be far more coverage of things like archery, shooting, and heck, even skateboarding if we are going to watch sports with judges. Gymnastics is so boring and lame.

Pay $8 for peacock and stop complaining. I've seen lots of archery and equestrian and anything I want.

Why are you saying stop complaining? Why can't we complain about corporations?

Because there is an incredibly cheap, quick and easy to access solution to this "problem." The only reason someone would complain about this is if they really, really wanted to be unhappy about something.

Great trick by NBC, make the free coverage unbearable so we have to pay to use Peacock to see quality coverage. They will make millions if not billions by this rude. But you call this a "solution", it actually sounds intentional.

Looking at the schedule, right now racewalking, women's handball, men's golf, and table tennis are on regular cable/online services (I checked Fubo). Is that not enough?

I said what I said. You are not going to back me into a corner to change my assessment. And I am not unhappy, I am happily making a judgment. I don't care if you and some other posters disagree. And no, the whole world doesn't agree wjth you so I will not fall for that line. Pick a name to call me I will wait:
--old fashioned
--stupid
--dumb
--negative
--no fun
--idiot