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Imagine being driven into the ground directly onto your head/neck/back from 10 feet in the air, with the force of 15x your body weight. THOSE are the stakes here. People need to understand that before they run their mouths.
Simone is an elite athlete and the greatest of all time - she would not take pulling out of two Olympic finals lightly. This is NOT comparable to other sports. Proud of her selfless decision and wishing her the time and space she needs to rest and recover 
Thank you to UCLA gymnasts @emilyklee14, @norah_flatley & @kcomforte (now Associate Head Coach) for providing the enlightening perspectives I relayed in my thread! All of them are former US elite gymnasts & US National Team members.
the look on Suni's face said it all. She look scare/concern as Simone was in mid flight.
Amen Deanna!!
Non gymnasts don’t get it. They don’t get that we risk our lives for what we do-now much pounding we take on our bodies.
I’ve had twisties many times. And one particular time, I was grateful my coach caught me mid air to bring me down safely so I wouldn’t
hurt myself. These people don’t seem to get it. It’s not that easy to just suck it up & move on.
But that’s not what she said. She said she dropped out because she “wasn’t going to succeed as much as she wanted to” and she wanted to “focus on herself” to show she was a “strong person”.
Okay....she's not the greatest athlete of all time.
It’s both. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. She was looking after herself and her health AND making sure she put her team in the best position to do well considering the circumstances. The key point was that she was not being selfish.
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