Modern Basketball, collegiate and pro, can be traced back to Sonny “Sole Man” Vaccarro and Nike. He changed the sport forever.
This thread has me seriously wondering if Nike might still be the leader in another unfortunate trend and NOT the cultural follower.
Curious if I own any Nikes. Have to look
I’m still of the opinion that Biles had the yips. I just saw video of her screwing up in practice. This does exonerate any of the other issues raised here.
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I think the real problem here is that being a world class athlete is by nature at odds with having a well balanced life. To start off, even to be considered you need to be in the top 5% for genetics, there is nothing fair about that. For 19/20 kids it doesn;t matter how hard they train they will never be able to obtain anywhere near the level of success their idol does. And in terms of training, the sheer amount of obsessive and compulsive thought around such a single endeavor leads to a very shallow life. I mean come on lets face it none of these top athletes have anything of worth to say outside of that which is relevant to their particular sport.
You want kids to grow up healthy then dump these idols as they represent nothing about a normal life outside of an over fascination with success in albeit a useless sport. Biles would be a better role model if she chose to quit altogether...
Now don't get me wrong, the above doesn;t disqualify sports from being entertaining. But that's all it really should be.
Lol Druff liking the OP - the same guy whose anxiety from hot dog induced LPR led him to beg the board to stop trolling him because he couldn't take it anymore and surely could never play a hand of midstakes poker ever again.
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/...wsop-34798.htm
That guy has an incel fueled opinion on a world class athlete maybe not wanting to break her neck?
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But that’s not why she said she dropped out. It was a few days before any physical reasons were mentioned. If she had said there’s something physically wrong with me and it won’t allow me to perform, I never would have made this thread. She said “I felt like I was doing it for everyone else and I need to feel like I’m doing it for me.”
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Read she quit bc she couldn't take her adderall.
PED's are a big part of the Olympics. Hilarious everyone pretending otherwise
LOL
"Simone Biles has withdrawn from the vault final and MyKayla Skinner will replace her. "
third time
Winner of the $555 freeroll
Whitlock said after she quit the first event and announced it was for mental health it was just a formality she was going to drop out of all the others. Even if she wanted to compete (doubtful), team USA would be taking on too much liability— financial, potentially legal, and definitely social; if she hurt herself.
So far his prediction seems to be holding up.
She is making her triumphant return to the last event....the balance beam...brave hero is brave
If you didn’t see this Walt Frazieresque return coming...you are blind.
I kinda hope she either does perfect or falls off....bronze medal would be the worst outcome.
She won the Bronze Medal, which is still very impressive considering she quit because of feeling overwhelmed. Her returning at all is impressive... I guess she read all of the negative comments talking shit about her leaving her Team in a clutch and came back to help out her Team.
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