2020/21 Olympics And Survival thread

[redmanjp]

Sparkle Mc Knight - not in the 400 metres Hurdles Heats now due to covid positive status

False start by another runner

[Soul Collector]

bluefete,

"...she did not achive that by getting a pass in her events over the years." - WHAT? Who d fack said she got any passes anywhere? What are you on about, really?

"She did it by performing under the type of pressure that you, I and those other a--holes could never understand." - Exactly. I am not a trained professional athlete. So again, what are you trying to get at by saying that? That I cannot speak about her because I am not a gymnast?

"In her current mindset, if she competed, she could have killed herself. It is that serious." - Let's assume it was case of the "twisties". Why was she so quick to use "mental health" as the reason for not being able to compete? How about respectfully retiring from the event letting them know about the twisties and your concern about bringing harm to yourself?

Here is another perspective for you, other than what every bloody article on every news outlet seems to be talking about. It's a woman btw, not no arsehole man. She's white though, so her opinion may not count for some.

https://spectatorworld.com/life/simone- ... al-health/

Simone Biles is a quitter
Even with her many mistakes during the qualifying round, Biles still posted the highest score in the competition

July 27, 2021 | 2:02 pm

Just a few days before the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, my mom and I watched the gymnastics comedy Stick It. The movie is about a star gymnast fighting for redemption after dropping out of a World Championship right before the floor event. Reality seemed to mirror fiction on Tuesday when Simone Biles, the star of the US gymnastics team who is widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time, withdrew from competition during the Olympic team final.

Biles botched her vault attempt, not performing the full trick she planned to do and taking a huge step upon landing, before being led away from the floor by a team trainer. The US gymnastics team said she would not finish the final, leaving the rest of her team in dire straits as they needed her monstrous scores to secure America’s third gold medal in a row. The team would ultimately finish with a silver medal behind the Russian Olympic Committee.

The media initially suspected Biles had suffered an injury, but she later confirmed that she withdrew from the team final due to ‘mental health’ issues.

Biles explained that she was struggling with the immense pressure to win the competition and the expectations that come with being ‘the GOAT’ (greatest of all time).[Self proclaimed btw] She said she feared she could injure herself physically attempting to perform difficult gymnastics skills while in a fragile mental state.

‘Whenever you get in a high stress situation, you kind of freak out,’ Biles told reporters. ‘I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and well-being.’

Biles’s argument that she could have been injured if she continued to compete makes sense; it could be quite dangerous for her to throw one of her eponymous tricks if she got ‘lost in the air’ — which is how one of the announcers described Biles’s vault attempt. However, the fact that Biles was able to become so mentally unfocused in the first place is quite stunning for an Olympic-caliber athlete, let alone the best gymnast ever.

The timing of Biles’s decision suggests it had something to do with the mistakes she made during the team qualifying round. Biles flew way off the mat during her floor exercise, took a major step off the vault landing strip and bobbled part of her balance beam routine. In sports, mental toughness is key. It is a necessity to be able to recover from errors like this without having a breakdown. Biles, however, has not lost an all-around competition in eight years and emblazoned one of her Olympics leotards with a goat, referencing her ‘GOAT’ status. Is it all that surprising that someone this overconfident— some might say arrogant — would struggle to mentally rebound from a poor performance?

Biles also told reporters that she thought she would cost the team too many points if she stayed in the final. It’s hard to buy that excuse. Even with her many mistakes during the qualifying round, Biles still posted the highest score in the competition. The starting difficulty level for her tricks is so much higher than the other competitors that she can outscore them by a full point margin even when incurring major deductions for stepping out of bounds or falling.

With a substandard Biles in the qualifying round, the US finished second to Russia by about one point. Without Biles in the final on Tuesday, they finished second by nearly three and a half points. Biles was much more accurate when she gave this more selfish explanation for her decision: ‘I have to do what’s right for me.’

‘It’s OK sometimes to sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself,’ Biles said.

Maybe, but Biles’s decision also affected her teammates and her country. She chose not to leave until the middle of the competition, when it would have the biggest impact on the other US gymnasts. Several of them had to compete last-minute in events for which they had not prepared. And, in taking the pressure off herself, Biles unloaded even more onto her three much-younger teammates. Will the media and the US gymnastics team consider the effect that Biles’s withdrawal may have had on their mental health?

Biles has been lauded on social media for her decision to drop out. You wonder whether she would have garnered more praise from Instagram activists for bagging another team gold or ‘practicing self-care’. I guess we’ll never know!

If the gymnast’s mental state is really so poor that she feels justified in letting down her team, then she should sit out the rest of the Olympics. It would be quite dishonorable if she took multiple days off of competition, at the expense of her teammates, just to come back and rack up some individual medals.

Biles may be the most skilled gymnast ever, but a true champion is someone who perseveres even when the competition gets tough. Biles’s teammates, who still took home a silver medal despite unthinkable circumstances, should be remembered as the genuine heroes of the 2020 US Olympic gymnastics team.

[Soul Collector]

bluefete, I only went 2 mins into this vid. I can't hear her yap anymore honestly.

LISTEN TO WHAT HER TEAMMATES SAY in that 2 min span. Watch Simone reaction to it. Them girls went and DO WHAT THEY HAD TO DO. Right after they spoke, Simone start yapping about the stress she under, and oh how the olymics have no audience, and oh it's been a long week etc etc etc....*stopped video*

After that 2 mins when her teammates spoke...all that was missing was a MIC DROP.

"Sad that the whole conference is about simone’s issues instead of the other girls’ performance"

[redmanjp]

She missed it by 1 thousandth of a second

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/07/31/ahye-misses-out-on-womens-100m-final/

[bluefete]

Soul Collector:

At the end of the day, I prefer to read the vitriol directed at Simone, than to know she had the "twisties" and still went out to perform because she had to "man it up", and ended up with a broken neck.

If she had gone and competed and died, what would you and all the others be saying at this point?

[Soul Collector]

bluefete,

I never said anything about forcing her to compete. I said she should have respectfully retired from the event instead of making it some spectacle about "mental health issues" which the media was oh so grateful for to pick up and run with. Say that you have the twisties, and that you would be in danger so you can't compete.

I eh really have anything else to say bout this tho. This comment from that same fella vid you didn't like had the most amount of likes by a mile, and is basically my point as well:

"She turned a relatively minor firetruck up into a massive firetruck up."

[pugboy]

it unfortunate that her media coverage overrriding other competitors

[shake d livin wake d dead]

That women 100m final just ups and disappear like a fart in the wind. Very safe to say nobody really studying olympics

[redmanjp]

TT athlete Portious Warren is in the Women's Shot Put Final 9:35pm

[K74T]

[Dizzy28]

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

[bluefete]

That was some 400 metres hurdles. A new world and olympic record and several personal bests.

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

[bluefete]

Soul Collector got his wish.

Simone Biles will compete sometime on Tuesday.

[Dizzy28]

The Norwegian broke his own WR he set on July 1st.

That was some 400 metres hurdles. A new world and olympic record and several personal bests.

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

[bluefete]

I don't know how he was able to hold off Benjamin but after the last hurdle, like he got a burst of energy.

The Norwegian broke his own WR he set on July 1st.

That was some 400 metres hurdles. A new world and olympic record and several personal bests.

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

[Dizzy28]

To put into perspective what Warholm did

I don't know how he was able to hold off Benjamin but after the last hurdle, like he got a burst of energy.

The Norwegian broke his own WR he set on July 1st.

That was some 400 metres hurdles. A new world and olympic record and several personal bests.

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

[redmanjp]

In the just concluded 400m Hurdles final the silver medalist for the USA Rai Benjamin is the son of former West Indies fast bowler Winston Benjamin.

Mitchell Starc's brother Brandon came 5th in the high jump final. Heard he's back ruling over Westeros now.

The race was so fast even the person who came second broke the previous record. Also about 6 ppl broke some type of record.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Keshorn begins his campaign tonight

[bluefete]

Simone won a bronze medal.

She did not do any thing that required "twisties".

Soul Collector got his wish.

Simone Biles will compete sometime on Tuesday.

[matr1x]

She is no long the GOAT.



Her team mates better.

[bluefete]

She is no long the GOAT.



Her team mates better.

LOL. Why allyuh so?

Her stepping down allowed her teammates to step up.

None of them expected to win a gold medal individually because it was all about Simone. But she knew that her problems would give an opportunity to the others.

And they grabbed it with both hands.

[matr1x]

She is weak.


A true sports person rises above the challenge. That why they go into it. That's what is supposed to separate them from us

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Walcott up in a few

[bluefete]

She is weak.


A true sports person rises above the challenge. That why they go into it. That's what is supposed to separate them from us

You kinda mad or what? Sorry you did not get to see a breakneck while trying to prove she is not weak.

Go and see her track record and come back and tell me she is weak.

Allyuh keyboard warriors cannot hold a candle to her accomplishments.

Weak my backside.

[bluefete]

Keshorn 76 m on 1st throw. Wayyyyy off what he needs to qualify.

[redmanjp]

Well he has 2 more chances.

[matr1x]

She is weak.


A true sports person rises above the challenge. That why they go into it. That's what is supposed to separate them from us

You kinda mad or what? Sorry you did not get to see a breakneck while trying to prove she is not weak.

Go and see her track record and come back and tell me she is weak.

Allyuh keyboard warriors cannot hold a candle to her accomplishments.

Weak my backside.

Bs. She abandoned her team when they needed her. Being a sport person means pushing themselves to find that strength.

If kobe rolled on his team because he was not mentally up to it, ppl would have shredded him.

Now she roll in to get bronze.

GOAT is for people who earned that.

As in sports, the better athletes win.

[redmanjp]

Keshorn got 79.33 and remains in 7th place. Guess no medal for him this time.

[pugboy]

Some come back even better
Lara said cricket was ruining his life and quit too

She is weak.


A true sports person rises above the challenge. That why they go into it. That's what is supposed to separate them from us

You kinda mad or what? Sorry you did not get to see a breakneck while trying to prove she is not weak.

Go and see her track record and come back and tell me she is weak.

Allyuh keyboard warriors cannot hold a candle to her accomplishments.

Weak my backside.

Bs. She abandoned her team when they needed her. Being a sport person means pushing themselves to find that strength.

If kobe rolled on his team because he was not mentally up to it, ppl would have shredded him.

Now she roll in to get bronze.

GOAT is for people who earned that.

As in sports, the better athletes win.

[redmanjp]

The women followed the men in the 100m hurdles and broke the world record. The silver medalist I think also broke the now previous record just like in the Men's.