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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every once in awhile there comes a young gymnast who does not make many mistakes. They are lauded.

But usually, the top gymnasts do make a few bobbles in a high level competition. This is normal.

Biles was a gymnast that last Olympics did not make many of those normal bobbles. Whatever happened recently, she quit 5% in to her 2nd Olympics.

Oh well. There could be many reasons for that. That's too bad she didn't retire several months ago. Or create routines she was more confident about. Or brush off the "be perfect all the time" BS.

Just do your best, as all the athletes who did perform this week, did. Well prepared, trained, ready. Just do your best and everything will be OK. Look at Ledecky getting 5th in a race with 2 people crossing olympic records: "That was a tough race!" And it was. THen she went and swam and won her 1500m.[/quote]

Honey, you don't know what you're talking about. "Just do it your best and everything will be OK" is one of the most asinine things I've read on this thread and only someone who is a complete ignoramus about gymnastics could say something that idiotic.

A tough race for a swimmer doesn't result in life-threatening injury.  Mistakes in gymnastics can result in complete paralysis or death.

Elena Mukina. Julissa Gomez.  Sang Lan.

These women were catastrophically injured and died as a result of competing in gymnastics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/sports/olympics/biles-gymnastics-injuries.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julissa_Gomez#:~:text=Julissa%20D'Anne%20Gomez%20(November,eventually%20died%20from%20her%20injury.

As someone who did gymnastics as a child, this is a sport where the risk of injury is tremendous.

As for why Simone Biles didn't retire a few months ago, it's because she was performing beautifully then.  The twisties are not the same thing as a few "bobbloes."  They are life threatening.

So, unless you've at least done a back handspring on a vault, don't tell me what happened to Simone was "a few bobbles."  It is f*&Jin terrifying as a gymnast not to know where you are in the air.[/quote]

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