Simone Biles

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More Suni Lee please.

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Love, love Simone. Have zero problem with her sticking up for herself or her teammates.

I -DO - have a problem with the rest of the world weighing in and piling on re: these matters. You all weren't involved. The team, and Simone, handled it. You commentary and bullying of Skinner and others was unnecessary, yet typical, of keyboard warriors who can say whatever the F they want under the cover of anonymity. Just stop it.

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Anonymous wrote:More Suni Lee please.

I love Suni too, but this is sport.
She has to earn the attention

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Anonymous wrote:Look, I know a lot of you guys are for your fans but definitely watch some more gymnastics meets. Beam finals are just kind of crazy, And folks just really got inside their heads. I was really gobsmack to see Simone fall on her beam series. I don't think I've ever seen her do that. I figured it was going to be the side aerial. I was going to give her trouble not her series.

+1 this is just how beam is. It's why many gymnasts really hate it even when they consistently do well on it -- it is not a fun apparatus. It's something you endure and hope not to screw up.

precisely. beam is 100% mental. one.skill.at.a.time.

-- signed, former competitive gymnast who was often beam anchor.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Simone and Chiles bowing to Andrade on the podium was bizarre and obnoxious. More ways to put the spotlight on them for being so “humble”

Seek help

It’s on the CNN homepage “Simone Biles tells CNN why her bowing to Rebecca Andrade was really important.” Maybe CNN could have just interviewed the actual winner.

Jordan was the one who ask if they should bow to Rebeca and Simone said of course. If Simone told Jordan “no” you would saying all sorts of horrible things about her.

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Anonymous wrote:More Suni Lee please.

I love Suni - she seems so wholesome and like a good friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, I know a lot of you guys are for your fans but definitely watch some more gymnastics meets. Beam finals are just kind of crazy, And folks just really got inside their heads. I was really gobsmack to see Simone fall on her beam series. I don't think I've ever seen her do that. I figured it was going to be the side aerial. I was going to give her trouble not her series.

+1 this is just how beam is. It's why many gymnasts really hate it even when they consistently do well on it -- it is not a fun apparatus. It's something you endure and hope not to screw up.

precisely. beam is 100% mental. one.skill.at.a.time.

-- signed, former competitive gymnast who was often beam anchor.

I mean if it were 100% mental.... then I could do that stuff if I concentrated hard enough. But trust me, I cant

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Simone and Chiles bowing to Andrade on the podium was bizarre and obnoxious. More ways to put the spotlight on them for being so “humble”

Seek help

It’s on the CNN homepage “Simone Biles tells CNN why her bowing to Rebecca Andrade was really important.” Maybe CNN could have just interviewed the actual winner.

Then your beef (legitimate, may I add) is with CNN. Simone can’t control how the media outlets write about her.

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Anonymous wrote:Love, love Simone. Have zero problem with her sticking up for herself or her teammates.

I -DO - have a problem with the rest of the world weighing in and piling on re: these matters. You all weren't involved. The team, and Simone, handled it. You commentary and bullying of Skinner and others was unnecessary, yet typical, of keyboard warriors who can say whatever the F they want under the cover of anonymity. Just stop it.

Who cares that you are mad? Ooh we are shaking in our boots you told us to stop!

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised no one has mentioned the whole "salute controversy" since this is after all a Simone Biles thread.

Biles got a penalty for "failing to salute" the judge at the end of her routine. It was a .3 deduction but due to her fall would not have impacted the outcome of the event since Biles wound up scoring .9 below the bronze medalist. It would not even change Biles' finish order. However a lot of people including a lot of other gymnasts have called the penalty BS because Biles *did* salute at the end of her routine -- it was just deemed insufficient. Which does seem incredibly petty.

That was also why Biles held her salute at the end of her floor routine for a weirdly long period of time (she held her arms up all the way until she got to the stairs).

This is all interesting to me because the scoring of both events was sort of curious. Some of the scores (including I believe both of Biles' scores) took absolutely forever to come out which usually indicates that there was too much of a discrepancy between individual judge's scores and it needs to be reconciled. Then there was the scoring issues on floor with the inquiries. Not just the successful inquiry that wound up boosting Jordan Chiles difficulty rating high enough to get her the bronze (which for the record I think was merited -- they had not given her credit for a tour jete full and watching it in her routine she absolutely nailed it) but also an inquiry for Sabrina Maneca-Voineau. M-V's inquiry was not successful and I still don't know exactly what it was for but I did think her difficulty score was low for her routine and I don't know what her .1 penalty was for.

So anyway -- the judging was not straightforward for today's events and probably contributed to what felt like weirdness with the results even though I think in the end the best routines were properly rewarded.

Simone came off as petty to me repeatedly throughout the Olympics, the salute controversy, captions, asking people to not ask about her plans afterwards.

Yeah, we're not used to people, especially black women, setting boundaries and sticking up for themselves.

Boom!

Hopefully we’ll have one in the White House soon, too.

Kamala doesn't need this kind of (obnoxious) help from you by the way.

She's on my computer constantly begging me for $5, so she thinks she does.

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Anonymous wrote:Beam is quite a scene this morning

Everyone fell off at the same spot, too. And Simone was furious. She was talking furiously and her coach was trying to shush her. She seemed to be complaining about something that happened as soon as she started her pass. I kept rewinding to hear what she was saying but I couldn’t make it out. Suni responded “I know, are they telling them to do that?” or something. I wonder what was happening at that end of the beam.

It might have been some lighting issue or flashbulb

Based on Suni’s interview and some reporting from the arena, people in the crowd were telling others to be quiet and not cheer, so the place was jarringly silent. Gymnasts are used to background noise.Suni said that it was so quiet it felt like everyone could hear her breathing.

Are you suggesting the American contingent would go along with some sabotage request to shush? Sometimes people just have a bad day. It’s not about being the best in practice or warm ups you have to be the best when it counts.

No, they're saying the silence made them uncomfortable because it's not typically how they perform. Normally there's background noise and instead the silence threw off their rhythm.

Ok. Seems like the other athletes are managing just fine.

Is that joke? An actual majority of them FELL off of the beam. Hardly “managing just fine” for the literal Olympic gold medal on the line for most of the gymnasts to fall off the apparatus

+1 and even those that didn't fall had serious balance issues that resulted in major deductions. Only D'Amato and Andrade completed routines without major issues.

That doesn't mean there was a problem with the equipment or some distraction in the crowd though. Sometimes an apparatus just goes that way. Falling can be contagious because watching other gymnasts fall puts it into your head and beam is the kind of apparatus where just feeling a little off can cause a major error because the margin for error is nil.

Even D'Amato who won the gold medal looked slightly off to me -- instead of really secure landings in her skills she was staying up on her toes and looked a bit tentative. But no fall and no major wobble plus a rock solid dismount made her the best on the day. I'm really happy for her because she had a fantastic meet but finished *just* out of medal contention in the all around and then was also fairly close on uneven bars and floor but still not in medal contention. I think like Jordan Chiles she really wanted one individual medal to show for having truly a fantastic olympics overall and to get a GOLD on beam was really validating.

Actually I feel this way about several of the results. While it was a bummer to see Simone get silver on floor since she's so dominant in that event I loved seeing Andrade win and get an individual gold -- she is really the only gymnast out there who I think can actually go toe to toe with Biles so I think it's great for her and the sport for her to win there. Thrilled for Jordan Chiles to get that bronze on floor too and not bothered at all that it came after an inquiry because they've been underscoring her floor routine the entire meet and probably should have challenged her difficulty score earlier in the meet. She's doing really hard gymnastics incredibly well and I think she earned that medal.

So, some didn’t fall off. There’s no story here. Sorry.

I mean usually 0-1 out of 8 fall off not 5 out of 8. It’s definitely a story. It’s no fun to watch the supposed best of the best on beam when they all fall off. They need to change the scheduling or change the weird silence they were complaining about or something, because no one wants to watch everyone fall off one by one and the medal go to someone who isn’t close to the best, just because she managed to keep her body on the beam.

Apparently keeping her body on the beam in this particular competition DOES mean she is the best of the best since half of them couldn’t manage that.

No, because she had the unfair advantage of seeing everyone else's results before she chose her routine.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Simone and Chiles bowing to Andrade on the podium was bizarre and obnoxious. More ways to put the spotlight on them for being so “humble”

Seek help

It’s on the CNN homepage “Simone Biles tells CNN why her bowing to Rebecca Andrade was really important.” Maybe CNN could have just interviewed the actual winner.

Then your beef (legitimate, may I add) is with CNN. Simone can’t control how the media outlets write about her.

+1 I genuinely think she'd be thrilled if she got less attention from the press. It would make her actual job easier and probably greatly improve her mental health.

I should also note as someone who lived overseas for years that it is very standard for media to mostly focus on their athletes with sometimes only cursory attention given to the winners. Actually I watched a lot of the gymnastics this year on a British feed and even though no UK or Canadian gymnasts were particularly well positioned to medal in the women's all around, the coverage focused a lot on them (while also showing the medalist and medal contenders but with more muted coverage). I saw every one of Ellie Black's and Alice Kinsella's routines and watched interviews with them after-- not Biles or Andrade or Lee. Which makes sense because people watching UK coverage want to know what their athletes are up to.

So it's weird to expect an American news outlet to focus on a Brazilian winner. Yes they should report on the winners and offer some context about her but there's nothing wrong with them reporting out the US's results and sharing a feel good story about the US athletes celebrating their Brazilian competitor. That is how Olympic company average works all over the world.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Simone and Chiles bowing to Andrade on the podium was bizarre and obnoxious. More ways to put the spotlight on them for being so “humble”

Seek help

It’s on the CNN homepage “Simone Biles tells CNN why her bowing to Rebecca Andrade was really important.” Maybe CNN could have just interviewed the actual winner.

Simone did the press conference after the floor meet and Rebecca did not so they did not have an opportunity to interview her unless they could track her down

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Anonymous wrote:Love, love Simone. Have zero problem with her sticking up for herself or her teammates.

I -DO - have a problem with the rest of the world weighing in and piling on re: these matters. You all weren't involved. The team, and Simone, handled it. You commentary and bullying of Skinner and others was unnecessary, yet typical, of keyboard warriors who can say whatever the F they want under the cover of anonymity. Just stop it.

Who cares that you are mad? Ooh we are shaking in our boots you told us to stop!

Similarly, I don't give a sh-- about your opinion. So I guess we're even.
I will say my position is more of the ethical and reasonable one, though. Were you there? Involved? Then no on cares what you have to say piling on and bullying a young woman. You're just a nosy, nasty, busy body. Go ahead an own it, I guess.

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I am SO ready for new faces in 2028.