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Judges are scoring her new move at a lower difficulty out of “fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot.” Facing Black excellence, just change the rules.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/sports/olympics/simone-biles-yurchenko-double-pike.html …
No one gave Michael Phelps ankle weights.
When it’s a white athlete who towers above the field, we simply praise their prowess.
When it’s a Black athlete, we have to keep it close 
I don’t remember reading about scoring being changed after Nadia Comaneci score 10.0’s in 1976
Scoring was actually changed for all events in 2006. Not in response to Comaneci's score, but the perfect 10 doesn't even exist anymore in gymnastics (Comaneci is on record as hating it btw)
Hell let them want to beat her! Bringing her down to a lower level lowers everyone in the sport- let the stars shine! 
See also: Surya Bonalyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhyMl_ZS04 …
Surya faced a lot of racism in figure skating. The back flip is not an example of it though.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/02/22/twenty-years-later-figure-skatings-most-famous-backflip-remains-amazing-and-illegal/ …
Thinking down the road, it lessens the sport. It diminishes the next athlete who comes along and tops Simone’s accomplishment.
I agree. She is the greatest, that's a thing! It lasts until someone else defeats them, this diminishes her greatness, which diminishes the Olympics itself. This judging error cannot stand. It is a refusal to recognize greatness.
So painful. So gross. Not okay.
and when they're trans, they are banned from competing
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