She's literally the greatest already. Somehow that buys her no credit with you.Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
It's an obvious fact, and that's where the discussion should start, not be conceded. If she's this great, don't you think something must be severely wrong?
Still feel like Fuck Simone Biles is a solid stance, just out of curiosity?
Last edited by Crowe Diddly; 07-28-2021 at 02:45 PM.
LOL
"BREAKING: Simone Biles has pulled out of the AA final tomorrow due to further evaluation of her mental health. We wish her all the best as she makes such a brave and courageous decision. MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS"
again out
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Choked in the prelims and got the yips....whatever, it happens.
If she knew she had the yips before the olympics she should have bowed out earlier, but if they just occurred...oh well.
Certainly tarnishes her rep as the GOAT.
smells like a covid cover up
I'm sure she's vaccinated and they don't want to publicize that she's positive.
ez game
He retired due to mental duress in his prime.We’re usually on the same side of things so I’m not going to get into it, I just disagree with you.
Michael Jordan could be basically dead and he would will himself to perform in the clutch. That is greatness. Quitting just as it’s time to lay it all on the line because the pressure got to you is not greatness.
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gymnastics should be soviet style a la aliya mustafina the prima ballerina
not afrika style (like in tennis venus/serena williams)
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Mustafina was the greatest of all time
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Best was Scottie Pippen refusing to play when claimed a migraine headache. Wasn't the go to guy and sat out. They should have just canceled the Olympics.
Luck told the team around draft time and they tried to talk him out of it all the way through the start of preseason. Two weeks into July he called the owner directly to say “guys, I’m not kidding I’m done”.If Luck wanted to retire because he was sick of being injured all the time fine. Retire when a season ends, not just before the next one begins, when the draft and any reasonable free agent opportunities are past. He left his team high and dry too.
Again if he got medical news at the last moment that changes things.
That’s not public record.
Sharpest guys in the room were betting Chargers and Under the entire preseason. The under hit but somehow the colts covered.
Nick Pipes does not support this at all but also does not care. No time in my day to spend worrying about this, haven’t watched 1 minute of the olympics and if I did would never be gymnastics
This is the start of a trend you should “look out” for... athletes are going to skip/drop out of major competitions in protest or some sort of mental health awareness thing
I would not be surprised to see an NBA team sit out NBA finals if there was a police shooting etc
This year didn’t Kyrie Irving say his mind was elsewhere thinking about Gaza or something during the playoffs?
Imagine being the one paying him all that money and hearing that shit?
The worst is the tennis chick. She made what $50 million last year and had to sit out because depression? What can you even say?
Even the people who pretend to support this are lying. Every single adult knows this is all bullshit
People who make $3,000 a month working full time raising kids are supposed to have sympathy for word famous millionaires being depressed and anxious?
not where I come from pal
I know 100 men who would kill you for $1,000. Do you understand what they would do for the money these people make in. Day? A week? A year?
By the way, surely this entire thing was planned. She knew she was going to sit out before she even went.
It’s a show, a work
The Nike commercial with her and the tennis chick is coming out soon
Be brave, self care is more important than championships
Gold medals mean nothing if you are feeling anxious
Just Do It (as long as you’re not sad that day)
Do you understand how much stress and pressure Nick Pipes is under on a daily basis?
NONE BECAUSE I AM NOT A CRYING BITCHING MOANING PUSSY!
Brothers if Donald Trump runs and wins in 2024 You can expect there will be no nfl or nba in protest
It’s a new generation of athlete playing for the millenials and Gen Z’ers. The athlete is a spokesman for the woke and the mindful youth. Millenials will thank them and show their love. Biles and Osaka are blazing new frontiers for them.
She’s trending like a champ. I don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account so this ain’t my world but I try to get a good read on how the world really is. I’m incredulous.
When I was a kid reading stories about Dick Butkus biting off opponent’s noses and other players playing with a broken leg and then selling cars in the off season. That shit played to people belonging to a generation that believed in the Puritan Work Ethic. Absolutely non of that stuff exists today. If a writer did such a piece he would be ridiculed. How barbaric!
“He touched me!” I’m gonna flop on the hardwood floor wiping tears from my eyes during the NBA playoffs. The 70’s-90’s players were clotheslining each other. We loved it. The NFL is the same. All sports are neutered. The world isn’t ours any more.
Simone was very literally "touched" for years by a team doc, in a way that would make you want to kill someone if it was in your family, and she still rose above and won everything everywhere for years. She's still the only one who can get people fired for allowing the abuse in her sport, but so many of them are still in power anyway, because nobody else cares. You wanna talk about tough, maybe consider that angle too.
If the suggestion is that she was coddled in some way, the suggestion is demonstrably incorrect.
Sports just ain't what it used to be, when athletes would die with broken bodies and no money and had no agency and just got fucked by the owners and powerbrokers at every level... but they shut up and played hard and ruined their lives for US, goddamnit!
Also, Puritans were generally terrible people to themselves and each other and everyone else for that matter, and that's part of why we in Boston are assholes to everyone before we accept them and we're often still assholes after, except with a smile, to this day. But they believed in a higher power who they also believed treated them like shit, so...
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No idea either but Dwai actually made me chuckle. That’s a special Olympics bronze right there
First sports thread in awhile I have not much of an opinion on whatsoever. Well, outside of soccer threads.
Partially because I dont give two shits about the olympics, partially because eh, it's her choice. This isn't Kyrie getting paid $30 million salary and stepping away to ponder if the earth is round or not, she makes no salary. Sure, her previous achievements have let her build a nice bankroll with endorsements, but gymnastics (like most olympic sports) is basically a volunteer job at this point for her. Can't get TOO mad at a volunteer anywhere for quitting.
That is exactly right. Like it or not we are fast becoming old dogs. You’re not getting called up for WWW III
Correct play is to just fold USA Gymnastics entirely.
Russian athletes can't even compete under their own flag, but USA Gymnastics pushes on, despite the child molesting Dr., and Chinese-inspired athlete development.
Who remembers when Dominique Moceanu had to sue to be emancipated from her parents?
Something is seriously off with Gymnastics in this country, and it has been that way for a long time.
Walter, check out this article and let me know if this changes your mind at all on this matter.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuensc...u-simone-biles
The embedded tweet:
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1420396388614037509
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It’s a new generation of athlete playing for the millenials and Gen Z’ers. The athlete is a spokesman for the woke and the mindful youth. Millenials will thank them and show their love. Biles and Osaka are blazing new frontiers for them.
She’s trending like a champ. I don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account so this ain’t my world but I try to get a good read on how the world really is. I’m incredulous.
When I was a kid reading stories about Dick Butkus biting off opponent’s noses and other players playing with a broken leg and then selling cars in the off season. That shit played to people belonging to a generation that believed in the Puritan Work Ethic. Absolutely non of that stuff exists today. If a writer did such a piece he would be ridiculed. How barbaric!
“He touched me!” I’m gonna flop on the hardwood floor wiping tears from my eyes during the NBA playoffs. The 70’s-90’s players were clotheslining each other. We loved it. The NFL is the same. All sports are neutered. The world isn’t ours any more.
Jason Whitlock talks about this. The (black) athletes of today are conditioned to be like this. It is a self fulfilling prophecy. 20 years ago athletes were conditioned to be mentally tough and resilient, and they were. And now they are conditioned to be depressed, anxious, activists; and they are. Whitlock blames Nike the most for this.
Of course Whitlock sees this all as part of some bigger plan to keep the black community compliant and dependent on the D party and big government.
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