no one cares about world championship outside of actual gymnastics fans (all dozen of them). She did amazingly well in Rio and had a miserable Tokyo. Every cycle there is a US gymnast that the media latching onto and most are forgotten a month after the Olympics. She made it to two, but there is nothing to suggest that she'll have any relevance by November |
Your opinion that there are only a dozen gymnastics fans just makes you sound even more ignorant than your posts. Plenty of people watch world championships, particularly people who actually know something about sports. Anyway, Simone has more Olympic gold medals than any other USA athlete. But no matter what I say you'd just complain about how awful she is because you've decided to hate on her. |
This. The athletes most capable of replacing Biles on vault and floor weren’t even options anyway, and the options to replace her on bars and beam weren’t great either. I’m not sure the team lineup would have looked that much different had Biles withdrawn earlier- Lee or one of the alternates would have competed on vault. This team was heavily dependent on Biles and Lee performing to their potential. |
Her dominance in the sport will not be easily repeated or replicated. Worlds are just as competitive as Olympics, in fact more competitive because there's a deeper field of people eligible to compete vs the Olympics |
You are clueless. Not only about gymnastics but about sports in general. |
DP. No, she doesn't. Google is your friend. She was supposed to, with her projected win of 5, but that didn't happen. |
Simone Biles has more golds than any USA gymnast. From the New York Times. Going into the Tokyo Olympics, Simone Biles was already the most accomplished gymnast of our time. With her bronze medal in the balance beam final on Tuesday, she tied two important records in the sport. Biles, 24, now has a total of 32 Olympic and world medals, matching Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union, though Biles has more golds overall. Biles also has earned seven Olympic medals, tying Shannon Miller as the most successful American gymnast in the Games. Biles, though, has four golds to Miller’s two. Miller, 44, earned her Olympic medals in 1992 and in 1996, the year when the Americans first won the team event. Latynina, 86, competed when the countries behind the Iron Curtain were dominating women’s gymnastics. Between 1956 and 1964, she won 18 Olympic medals. She maintains the record for the most Olympic gold medals by any gymnast: nine. |
The bolded says USA athlete, not gymnast. Michael Phelps has the most gold medals of any US athlete. |
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So her aunt died while she was in Tokyo.
Sad. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/simone-biles-aunt-dies-olympics/ |
Yes sure. You’re right. Have a cookie. Simone is still the most decorated US gymnast. |
| Sad to hear about that. She's so talented and apparently had to step away due to mental health issues. Sounds like it had to do with her aunt dying, which is tragic. Unfortunately, this may spell the end of career. |
Pretty sure she was planning to retire after these Olympics anyway- actually in some interviews she indicated how hard the year delay was for her. |
| Oh gee, more DCUM pontificating in which no one knows what the hell they are talking about! Or another day ending in Y. |
Unless Zoloft or Prozac could use an endorser. |