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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find Simone Biles fascinating because she's such an unreal athlete yet seems like she has a normal personal life (which for anyone who follows gymnastics knows how crazy things can get).  She has a long-term boyfriend, she goes on vacation, drinks alcohol, etc etc. and yet performs on a world-class level time and time again.  It's astonishing.[/quote]

I love Simone and she is 24 and has taken significant breaks off training in the last 4-5 years. So there is an aspect of that. And while I realize it wasn’t meant that way, Simone even with her phenomenal talent has dedicated most of her life and sacrificed enormously in order to perform at this level. As much as everyone else. Maybe more in some cases.

It is great that she is proving you can still take breaks, live less rigidly and compete into your 20s and dominate. But I just want to put in a word in for the lifetime of work, physical and mental pain, emotional hardship that is behind this. [/quote]

Absolutely. Making it “look” easy doesn’t mean it comes easily. Quite the opposite. 
It’s true in other disciplines too: one of my kids plays violin. She needs to practice hard to make a concerto sound beautiful and as near flawless as possible. Then she needs to practice even more to make it sound - and look - *effortlessly* beautiful. It’s a ton of work.

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