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I agree with this. I also wonder about casting about for someone or something to blame. It seems to me that the desire to do that implies that everything is always in our control and if we could just do everything close to perfect all the time nothing bad would ever happen. But that just isn’t true. No one knows really what brings on the twisties. She’s been under a lot of pressure before including the Rio Olympics where she was most definitely favored to win everything and hyped as possibly the GOAT. The truth is there were a lot of crazy circumstances leading up to this Olympics that were just out of everyone’s control (like a worldwide pandemic) and I’m just not going to point to her coaches or a silly sparkly goat on her leotard as the reason this happened. Sometimes crap just happens and it’s probably best for all our anxiety levels as humans to accept that.

It’s been such a long Games. Simone is my favorite athlete of all time . I just want her to be happy in everything she ever does from here on out. Hear me, Universe??? what do I do with myself now? Diving is coming up and I need to see more Tom Daly. I’ll watch climbing as well. But at least now I can sleep normally again.

This was worth setting my alarm for. I forgot I changed my alarm to the sound of orcas screeching and THAT was pleasant to wake up to let me tell you.

My girl killed it. Simone, you are a legend. I can’t believe the mental fortitude it took to do that. She didn’t even look shaky except that one slight bobble.

Lol is it possible to be any more reserved than Jade Carey? NBC is trying for some emotion with the facetiming but that was awkward as heck.

It appears from twitter Simone has been training a double pike dismount from beam.

I for one applaud him for burning the most calories while doing a broadcast.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mykayla-skinner-gives-insight-behind-054852106.html Mykayla talks a bit about Simone’s decision to compete beam here. She mentions that Simone is comfortable with the dismount but doesn’t say which it is.

She did say on her IG stories its affecting twists but also a bit of her flipping. But mostly twists. I don’t think the wolf turn would be affected at all because its a turn with feet planted squared down. I mean, I guess if this was because of an inner ear infection it would affect turns but I don’t think it is.

Thanks for this! So it’ll be be closer to five than four which will be painful yet doable.

I’m hoping the women’s beam doesn’t actually start at 4:00. I think one of the mens’ events will be first. If anyone knows the time balance beam is supposed to start please post it because I’m dreading setting this alarm but there is no way on planet earth I’m not watching it live.

I deliberately slept through it because I’m getting so run down but yay! Good for Jade. Now every girl gets a medal! I am sending Simone every vibe I can that beam us a good routine for her. God knows she deserves it after what has to have been a tremendously difficult week.

Dear god I thought this was on at 8. hopefully someone puts it on YouTube soon. Sonofabitch!!!!

Remember how everyone was making mistakes until Shannon? That was a HARD compulsory! I liked comparing everyone doing the same routine.

Some of the greatest routines to watch are compulsories. Daniela Silivas, Lilia Podkapayava. I re-watch these even now! Heck I re-watched the compulsories from 1996 and I was on the edge of my seat watching beam!

OK, I’m going to be watching very closely tonight. I wonder if she was actually ill or just feeling anxiety but I’m gonna guess anxiety because a gold medal was absolutely a real possibility for her. Poor Jade. I hope it goes better for floor. We’re the bars always that….bouncy? They just looked weird and everyone was shaky. So if I have this straight, the apparent reason for no one-touch warmup is that it plays better on TV? Yeah, don’t these geniuses think that a mistake-minimizing final isn’t compelling TV? The Suni/Nina showdown fizzled before it even began.

I just read a comment somewhere else where someone noted they thought Jade looked pale and anxious or just not physically right even before her vault. Did anyone notice this (I didn’t watch because I slept right through it although I’ll watch tonight). I hope she is ok and is able to brush past this for floor final tomorrow. She has a great chance to medal and if she’s feeling the pressure about medaling I hope she knows ITS OK no matter what happens.

The thing is Simone’s execution is super high even with her difficulty. She truly can do the most difficult elements. I understand your point if gymnasts were throwing badly performed yet difficult skills but she was not. The problem with everyone performing easier skills and everyone doing everything cleanly is it becomes a LOT more subjective than it already is.

Elena Mukhina. What’s truly awful is her first thought after getting injured was something like “thank god I don’t have to do that anymore”. The culture of this sport has needed a big, big overhaul for a long time now. I don’t need to see athletes potentially crushed under impossible expectations just to enjoy that fleeting glory of a gold medal. The entire mentality behind this needs to change now and if it starts with what Simone did, that also leaves a huge mark on the sport as much as a bunch of gold medals does.

My guess is much much better. That ridiculous rule needs to go now.

What a disappointing bars final. Suni gets a medal in every color.

Suni could very well be out of medals for UB. That is unexpected for sure but the Olympics are hard and all kinds of crazy stuff happens.

They absolutely should have a one touch warm up and it’s so crazy they do not. I agree it has a lot to do with what happened to Jade. Sucks.

I just saw the slo-no of Rebeca’s Cheng and she landed outside the lines again. Her Cheng is so glorious otherwise. What was her second vault?

Poor Jade! at least she can still medal on floor though! I’ll be pulling for her. What a time for a mistake like that. That probably almost never happens to her. Olympics, man.