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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]

I agree with you that Simone is a once in a lifetime talent.

I don't agree that Simone is the only one who can take breaks and come back to perform at a high level (maybe not dominate, but then again, Simone is Simone).

Aly Raisman took time off after the London Olympics in 2012 before she started her comeback for Rio in 2016. She was 18 and the captain of the team in London and was 22 on the gold medal winning team in Rio.

Gabby Douglas was also 21 in Rio, making a comeback after her gold medal in the all-around in 2012.

Internationally, there are other gymnasts with long careers, including Canada's Ellie Black, who will be 25 at the Tokyo Olympics and Germany's Elizabeth Seitz, who is still competing at a high level at age 27. Neither of these  women ever took much time off from gymnastics except to recover from injuries, but they have had long and successful careers.  It's nice to see that the sport is no longer dominated by pre-pubescent teens. 
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