Wednesday, July 28, 2021

I Don't Know What's Going On With Simone Biles

Imagine flying through the air, springing off a piece of equipment as you prepare to flip on one axis while twisting on another. It all happens fast, so there’s little time to adjust. You rely on muscle memory, trusting that it’ll work out, because with so much practice, it usually does.

But then suddenly, you’re upside down in midair and your brain feels disconnected from your body. Your limbs that usually control how much you spin have stopped listening, and you feel lost. You hope all the years you’ve spent in this sport will guide your body to a safe landing position.

When Simone Biles pushed off the vaulting table Tuesday, she entered that terrifying world of uncertainty. In the Olympic team final, Biles planned to perform a 2½-twisting vault, but her mind chose to stall after just 1½ twists instead.

But, for what it's worth to her, she has my 100% support.

 

If that had been the fate of Ms. Biles in Tokyo, I suppose Piers Morgan would have said she should have known better and withdrawn from the competition. At least some of them were. Although the bigger mistake is turning out to be "social" media, which is making anti-social assholes of us all because now any clown with an opinion (which are like....what's the word, class? Everybody has one!) into a public figure. Yeah, I don't think that's made us better off.  Although the worst part is, although it's only 33 years ago (get off mah lawn, ya punk kids!) I don't remember the story of Ms. Gomez at all.  Like as not it was "disappeared" the better to not stain the "glory" of the Olympics.

Yeah, we've always been this bad.  Social media highlights it, but hasn't really created anything new.
Social media didn't make us idiots; it just exposed our idiocy.

3 comments:

  1. “ So every Texan has the right to infect other Texans' children? Is that what I'm getting here? Isn't this rather like saying every Texan has a right to fire off guns wildly, because 2nd Amendment?”

    Excellent point. This is the logic of accounts for sale. If cancer could talk this is what it would say.

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  2. Ugh, gotta proofread the dictation. “This is the logic of a cancer cell,” is what that should’ve read.

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  3. If she were white the same people would be praising her. I'd love to have her challenge these fat white guys to any basic calisthenics routine.

    It's like how everyone instantly turns into an expert on figure skating every four years only with racism, too.

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