Post by Surly on Jul 28, 2021 2:42:22 GMT
I just watched the final and I'm more annoyed after having actually seen it. So you screwed up a vault. I get it, this stuff is hard. Two of the Russian girls fell off the balance beam. Did they quit and ask for replacements? No, they finished their routines and their team won gold.
I'm not upset that Biles choked, it happens to the best of them. I'm just blown away that an athlete of her caliber would simply quit because she got caught up in the moment.
LOL!!
I've just never heard anyone describe it as a "mental health" issue like Biles did. Maybe I'm reading this wrong but it just struck me as kind of peculiar. I wish her well in the future but yeah, maybe she meant it as an excuse like "hey I choked, but it was because of my mental health issues, not because I suck today".
I feel it kind of robbed the Russians of a chance to say they "beat the American team that featured Simone Biles". I didn't like it either. you don't quit in the middle of the damn competition like that. But still, why would she bring up mental health? hmmm...
I think she just psyched herself out. She said stuff like having more pressure than anyone else (probably true), not being able to feed off of the energy of a crowd, not having her family in the stands, not being able to sense where she was in the air. But most - if not all - of those things were things all of the other competitors had to deal with. Even been talk from the media a lot about how will she handle pressure.
I watched her before that vault that led to her quitting. She moved around a lot like she wasn’t even sure where she should start running at the springboard! Sounds like all of this stuff psyched her out. Rather than push herself through a mediocre or bad performance, she “had to protect her mental health” - which sounds like one more way she psyched herself out.