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[quote=Anonymous][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]
She is proving that SHE can take breaks, then return and dominate. No one else ever could and, probably, won't be able to in the future. She truly is  an anomaly.[/quote]

Well I don’t think many gymnasts will start at her baseline and that does have to be acknowledged, but then again neither will their field of competitors. Obviously like with most “greatest of all time” athletes there is an aspect of anthropometric advantages, I just wanted to point out that competing at this level is still a huge strain and takes enormous sacrifice that Simone might not constantly show on social media (but she did give an extensive interview about a year ago where she opened up about being in a dark place at different times, especially when learning Tokyo would be postponed and she would have to keep training for another year).

I disagree that no one else ever could compete. Dominate? Probably not, but with or without breaks no one really has if you look at scores and ability to overcome a major error like a fall and still contend. Will anyone else do a yurchenko double pike, I mean probably not many with or without breaks, if someone else can do that they’d probably be able to take a break too. Breaks aren’t really the issue. But both Gabby and Aly took breaks after 2012 and then competed in another Olympic cycle, so it’s already been done. Aly was second to Simone in the 2016 Olympic all around final and had improved substantially in certain areas.

Simone is amazing, no doubt about it. One of the best athletes of all times hands down. But I also don’t see much of a valid argument that gymnastics hasn’t “really changed” since the 90s or even the last 10 years. And a lot of that change has happened pretty recently. We will continue to see a trend of older athletes and with that will probably come some breaks. But yes, we will not see a trend of athletes doing any training schedule breaks or no breaks and then doing a yurchenko double pike or being able to fall four times and win AA competitions. [/quote]

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