Summer Olympics Thread-Tokyo

[FearlessF]

well, that's just like your opinion, Man

[longhorn320]

well, that's just like your opinion, Man

yep man or "come on man"

[MaximumSam]

The most likely explanation is that she spent the last four years reading her own press clippings. She wasn't as hungry because she had already "made it" and she didn't prepare as hard because she thought that she could just waltz up there and kick everyone's butt. Supporting this theory is her diva like behavior, sewing GOATs onto her leo, and being the only athlete that was exempt from having to stay at Olympic Village. Then she gets up there and says "oh f*** I'm not ready for this" and instead of carrying on and giving it her best and not being as good as the others, she said "well I have my medals, good luck ladies" and walked off like a spoilt brat.

It isn't the most likely explanation, because she qualified in all four events and had the top overall score in qualifiers, which were two days before the team final.

[longhorn320]

I have no opinion one way or the other as I dont really know what she felt

I am on the side of giving her the benefit of the doubt however

[Honestbuckeye]

I tend to give her all benefit of the doubt. She is clearly the greatest that there’s ever been in terms of what she has proven and what she is capable of doing.

Have you ever had the yips or the shanks and Golf suddenly even though up to that point things were going very well? Or been able to hit nine out of 10 free throws for five years running and then suddenly for whatever reason I’m not able to hit one out of 10?  And both of those situations fairly quickly resolve themselves.

If you watched her when she had the struggles you could clearly see that she had lost her equilibrium and was unsure of what she was doing and sometimes that stuff just happens to great athletes.   Sometimes there’s no explanation and it just happens and then it goes away.

I still give her credit for having the courage to step out, be transparent with her team and then cheer them on as well as to come back and compete.  

[Brutus Buckeye]

It isn't the most likely explanation, because she qualified in all four events and had the top overall score in qualifiers, which were two days before the team final.

Well then that confirms that she didn't suffer from these "twisties" until the spotlight was on, and it was time to go. 

Textbook choke job, right there. 

[MaximumSam]

Well then that confirms that she didn't suffer from these "twisties" until the spotlight was on, and it was time to go.

Textbook choke job, right there.

I don't know what she was supposed to do. Gymnastics isn't a sport that you can just sort of power through. A bad performance kills the team and you don't get mulligans. If you think you aren't going to do well, isn't it unselfish and right to let someone else do it?

[Brutus Buckeye]

Not if you desperately want to be considered the "GOAT"

A properly prepared person would have a "back up" routine in their back pocket, just in case they got these "twisties" while they were up there.

The gals that wound up having to fill in for her had to come up with said routines on the fly, as they didn't even expect to be competing in those events.

They can do that, but she can't tweak her routine just a hair to remove some twists?

Okay. Dance puppets, dance.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I tend to give her all benefit of the doubt. She is clearly the greatest that there’s ever been in terms of what she has proven and what she is capable of doing.

Have you ever had the yips or the shanks and Golf suddenly even though up to that point things were going very well? Or been able to hit nine out of 10 free throws for five years running and then suddenly for whatever reason I’m not able to hit one out of 10?  And both of those situations fairly quickly resolve themselves.

If you watched her when she had the struggles you could clearly see that she had lost her equilibrium and was unsure of what she was doing and sometimes that stuff just happens to great athletes.  Sometimes there’s no explanation and it just happens and then it goes away.

I still give her credit for having the courage to step out, be transparent with her team and then cheer them on as well as to come back and compete. 

Where she failed was in properly messaging what was happening. Which is why to some it seems like she's changed her story. 

Maybe it's a cultural thing, where a gymnast doesn't want to even use the term "twisties" even though their fellow gymnasts know what it is, just like a golfer doesn't want to ever use the s-word....

But if she had come out and said what was going on, and that for her it was a combination of not feeling safe doing her routine in her state and her concern that she couldn't compete strongly enough to help her team (she did say some of the latter) it might have gone better.

But instead we got dribbles of information here and there, and suddenly anyone who didn't want to give her the benefit of the doubt had something to latch onto. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

When you tout yourself as the GOAT for four years, you better deliver or there is going to be some blowback. The blowback will intensity exponentially if you faceplant so bad that you not just choke, but also quit.

When Henne and Hart said that they were coming back for one more year so that they could beat Ohio State and win a NC, then they lost to Appalachian State right out of the gate, they both caught all kinds of Hell for it. They could have quit in order to prepare for the draft, but they were good teammates so they took their lumps and kept at it. The season didn't go the way they wanted, but they salvaged what they could, enough to leave with their heads held high, top 25 with a W over Urban Tebow.

Biles is more like the 2020 Wolverines who were so woefully unprepared for the season that the only way that Harbaugh could salvage enough dignity to keep his job for one more year was to wave the white flag and cancel the season.

[MaximumSam]

Biles is more like the 2020 Wolverines who were so woefully unprepared for the season that the only way that Harbaugh could salvage enough dignity to keep his job for one more year was to wave the white flag and cancel the season.

It would be like that except that in this scenario Harbaugh would have six national championships. Something I'm sure Wolverine fans would take.

[Brutus Buckeye]

If he had six NCs then he would have been able to withstand Day hanging a hundred on him, as he'd get a covid pass from the school and fanbase. So if he quit under those circumstances, it would have been way more pathetic than what actually transpired.

[OrangeAfroMan]

Well she's a quitter. Tom Brady doesn't walk off the field after throwing a pick six in the first quarter of the Super Bowl. Only this is worse, because she's been touting herself as the GOAT for the last four years, only to "ring the bell" on day one, after stealing a roster spot from another girl that would have given the USA better chance at winning.

This is just odd.  Did your dog die?

[OrangeAfroMan]

The most likely explanation is 

Everything you typed after this is absurd, questionable, frothing-at-the-mouth bizarreness that makes me concerned for your emotional well-being.  
Wow.