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The last two episodes of her Versus on Watch show came out yesterday and today. Seeing her mom Nellie crying while talking with her coaches (and then Simone herself crying as she tried to explain what happened) was incredibly hard to watch. Anyone who still thinks Simone pulled out just because at this point really doesn’t have a damn clue.

You mean by sparkly leotards? Maybe bows in their hair? Wiggling to floor routines? That kind of infantilizing? The sport has this problem anyway. This is not new in gymnastics. In some ways it’s getting better (gymnasts don’t sound or look as stunted as they used to) and in others its not. (Pageant glitter and bows were not a think in the early and mid nineties). They are sheltered as heck and I’m just noting another instance.

There are plenty of other levels in between “Here’s your pass!” And utter outrage. My level is a bit of cringe and the observation that American gymnasts have the same food preferences as an American toddler. And they do.

Did anyone watch the interview? I did. They were asked if they were hungry and wanted some food and they said yes and then someone specifically prepared them food, which they then declined like pre-teens at a slumber party only to upload pictures of pizza and fries to instagram later. IN MY OPINION, it was immature and cringey. I don’t need to move goalposts to justify every single behavior of these girls when any reading of my posts clearly shows how much I love them and especially Simone. But that doesn’t mean I give them a pass on every single thing. If my kid acted like that when graciously offered food specially prepared for them by the host country of the Olympics I’d be having a facepalm moment.

How old is Jordan? Simone is 24 and I can see more a big sister type of role with Jordan, but Simone has her own house, boyfriend and is just in a different place in life.

Honestly assuming that the food that the Japanese were proudly preparing for them could have been food poisoned is both insulting and a big reach.

It was after the competition was over. The day after beam finals.

When none of them even want to try it or seem to know what it is, it is highly likely that they just haven’t been exposed to it. Out of six none of them wants to try it? I think Suni was the only one who didn’t act revolted. I’m not the only one who noticed or remarked on this.

The sushi looked so good that I ordered some for lunch after watching it because I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Pizza and french fries just looks like a date with Rolaids waiting to happen. But then again, I’m no longer twenty!

They were hungry during an interview and were kindly offered plates of amazing sushi and no one knew what to do with it. They looked like they had never seen it before it their lives and there were a few squeals about how gross it was. Mykayla called roe “sprinkles” which was actually sort of funny. They are sheltered as hell.

I love Tom Daly so much. I want him to win all the medals and knit little cozies for them. Was it me or the second place finisher seem a bit peeved.

The team was offered sushi during an NBC interview with Hoda as well and they all stared at it as if it was poisoned. These gymnasts eat like American toddlers. Did they want chicken fingers and hot dogs too? To me its an indication of how sheltered their lives are. Pizza paired with french fries is seriously gross.

Their coverage was truly terrible. It’s hard to overstate how much I preferred the feeds.

I think also that if the twisties happen and the doubt and fear start, then the resulting horrible stress and anxiety that you’re going to screw everything up and maybe get really hurt would make it a mental health issue too. Larisa didn’t compete though.

Just watched Simone’s interview on NBC and she said she didn’t mind being the face of the Games or anything like that but she did feel a bit stressed at being the “glue” that holds the team together because she felt that if she had a bad practice, everyone did or if her attitude wasn’t right, it brought down everyone. From that perspective it is easy to see why she felt that her messing up in the team finals was going to cost them a medal. She also said the twisties did truly randomly come on. It first happened during one of her floor passes and then again the day after prelims.

I would say the 2008 quad was when my gymnastics interest was really not what it had been in 92-96 and what it became in the 2012 quad and beyond so I knew some stuff but I wasn’t totally absorbed. I did not really warm up to Nastia (I preferred Shawn’s tumbling but mostly I preferred her coach’s attitude about athletes). She may be different now but I really have no time or patience for fat-shamers in any capacity but particularly when it isn’t even true.

Jordan Chiles crying is just so pure.

Well, team Aly over here. There is just no excuse for such nastiness. No, Simone just does a triple. Her beam routine itself wasn’t changed at all, just the dismount. Spencer from Gymcastic was talking yesterday about all the changes she could/should make in her routine to make up for her lower D score and I was just laughing and telling my husband she wouldn’t change a thing except the dismount.

Oh I am NOT HERE for that. How awful and how UTTERLY untrue.

I’m not sure we can really know but its a definitely a thing that was a rumor because I googled it and stuff came up from several gymnastics blogs. eta: it was apparently after Memmel edged Liukin in a world championship.

Am I the only one who also describes male spats as bitchy as well? Because I totally do especially when its a war of words.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/how-simone-biles-came-back-to-win-the-bronze-of-her-life/ar-AAMTiqA?ocid=winp1taskbar Really good Simone article with more details about the timeline.

OOOOh, thats’s bitchy as HELL.

LOL, I cannot stand beach volleyball.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/simone-biles-reveals-family-tragedy-after-winning-bronze-in-beam-final/news-story/1dd22cc121c212a17609c65fe2818970 Interesting article as we start to fill in the blanks.