I know shit all about Biles or gymnastics, but isn't it also possible she just doesn't have that drive any longer to be the best? Most who reach such the summit of their sport keep pushing, but some don't. The fire to be the best in the world may just not be there any longer.
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Maybe, my (entirely made up) interpretation of her this weekend is that she had no interest in her teammates, her coaches, or even being there for that matter.

Sitting there alone in a chair looking stoic while her team is all laughing and cheering each other on said a lot to me. You'd never catch Mahomes acting like that.

She couldn't even get up to celebrate her teammates first Olympic performance....something is up with her.

Either she's an entitled cunt her she just caught her man shagging the maid.
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JFC, I must have missed the memo that stated everyone deals with intense pressure in the same exact way.

Biles had nothing to prove. She was mentally off her game and instead of competing and bringing the entire team down, she sat out.

It's really not that difficult to understand.
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She suffers from anxiety and depression, for which she's been taking meds and going to therapy.

If that makes her an "entitled cunt" then more than half this country are "entitled cunts".
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The country has a long way to go when it comes to treating mental health issues as actual, physical, medical issues instead of calling it the yips or being a pussy. Seems like athletes are starting to become more comfortable discussing it - which, honestly, good because if you're aware of it you can treat it AND/OR gm's and coaches can sit you or cut you if they deem you a risk in clutch moments - just like a sore hamstring.

I remember in college, one of my fraternity brothers had a suicide attempt over the summer, and one of the other guys was going on and on about how depression isn't a real thing and that its just 'weak character' from 'lack of prayer.'

No, idiot, there are actual, real, physical chemicals in the brain that aren't functioning properly, just like how you get pimples or fat when you're stressed.

Anyways, I'm all done discussing women's gymnastics for the day.
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Some people have said she’s been struggling for a while and just isn’t at the top of the sport anymore. The attitude you describe might also be one of someone who believed their own press too much. I can see why someone like that who failed at something simple on the big stage might just pack it in.

You can understand why you’d want to quit, what you can’t understand is someone at this level actually doing it.

It still doesn’t explain what’s brave about not being brave, or what the grand display of confidence is in losing all your confidence at a setback.

And no, I don’t believe a male athlete would be cheered for quitting on his team. If KD had walked off in the middle of the second half when the going was tough, nobody would be talking about how brave that was. They’d say he should gut it out for the team and display the indomitable Olympic spirit and all that.
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Anyone that wears GOAT apparel and then self implodes is open for mockery.
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All fair points. Last point I'll make that I think might be understated here is that in her sport, if you're off by a little, let alone a lot, your body is royally fucked potentially for life.

In basketball if you play when you're off, you just travel or throw up bricks/airballs.

(also, if you know you're going to likely fuck it up, wouldn't you rather have a B-player at least give your team a shot? That's what she did and they got a Silver)
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Agreed - bad look. Didn't like that from the start.
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she has been there done that. You think all those other Olympic gold medals and being considered the best of all time without being tough? One little slip up and not only the gold is gone but a medal. Years of training wasted because of one slip up. To finish on top multiple times with pressure like that…. No way she’s not tough.
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That and factor in that there’s no crowd. Probably amplified Biles feelings of not giving a shit, not wanting to be there etc.
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Biles is the face of these Olympics. Nobody gives a shit if Kevin Durrant wins a medal or not. Completely different expectations and pressure.
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BS..most people wouldn't recognize her waking next to them down the street. People watch women's gymnastics once every 4 years.
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Brass tacks.
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I was thinking it was that hot little number Mykayla from the commercial she was in. Don't remember Simone being in any.
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