I think Simone Biles showed a lot of strength and was a great teammate. She could have gone on but then they may not have medaled. So bring in an alternate to take her place she comes out of the locker room talks to her teammates and get them hyped up. She rooted on her team. She has been training for so long and 5 years for this Olympics and all you heard about after 2016 Olympics was Simone Biles and she kept getting better. I am sure it felt like the weight of world was on her. Even the judges were not scoring her fairly as she did tough routines but the judges gave her low scores on difficulty because they were afraid other gymnasts would feel they would have to do the same to keep up with her and they were afraid someone might get hurt. So she was doing a move no other female gymnast has ever attempted but did it with ease they basically said it was not fair. That would be like a runner running faster than the others and them telling them you need to slow down to allow others to compete. She should have been praised and given props for what she was doing but the judges felt no need to score her for her difficulty. She could have stayed in the locker room but she came out talked to her teammates and supported them. They won silver as a team. What she did was courageous, inspirational and a great teammate. Cry baby Morgan who should be sent to Mars and I am sure hardly did any kind of sports or at an elite level. One last thing when I was in school I loved sports but was no star, was about a C to B- student did not have any enemies I got picked on a lot in school because they were upper classmen or needed to boost their ego. Everyone I know got picked on you dealt with it and moved on. Today they seem to baby kids today, now I grew up with no mobile phones, social media and so on so maybe I do not understand why so many young kids kill them self over twitter posts or being picked on in school and they even trying to charge that girl who told that boy to jump off a bridge and he did. I know most people heard so many times if your friend jumped off a bridge would you. One thing we need to change that Trump created a lot of his hate. Way to much hate in this world. Sorry so long, take care.
Amen brother. Don’t apologize for the length, it needed to be said. You said well.
A quitter would have sulked and hid from view. She is 24 and has been on the national team since 2012 when she would have been 15. She has been training since 8. Bill Buckner had a great career and we only remember his error.
As Dino notes, let us remember the good times.
I hear you on the schooling. Fortunately my math grades were much better than my catching abilities. I threw a kid out during a game and he circled back to me in school with “I have 3 times as many girlfriends as you.” My response was 3 times zero is still zero.
Parents are living vicariously through their kids in many cases. I coached a few of my kids’ teams and they could be relentless on the kids. Most were wonderful, but there were usually a couple bad eggs. They were kids having fun.
