Official Tokyo 2021 Olympics thread

[Negro Caesar]

Simone Biles quit because she got a bad vault score? Scored a 13 and walked off crying and quit. If she ain’t injured she’s going to get killed for this. Quitting because u didn’t like ur score

 

[Trojan 24]

shes the only reason US even qualified in second spot breh

We know that, imagine Bron carrying that 2006 Cavs team to the Finals then saying he's out in Game 1

 

[Tony D'Amato]

shes the only reason US even qualified in second spot breh

That makes it even worse.

 

[The_Sheff]

Simone Biles quit because she got a bad vault score? Scored a 13 and walked off crying and quit. If she ain’t injured she’s going to get killed for this. Quitting because u didn’t like ur score

If she go out there and rack up golds in individual and trying to smile like its all good if i was her teammate id hit her with the McKayla.

 

[MustafaSTL]

but those sports aren't the same though

you can have a off game in basketball and be ok

in gymnastics you can break your neck, be paralyzed if you're not on

that's why I'm saying its hard to compare this with any other sport

If you’re not mentally into football you can get your head cracked. If you’re not mentally into it for boxing you’re getting your head cracked. But now it’s ok for Simone because she threw the buzz words out and she’s likable.

 

[MikelArteta]

We know that, imagine Bron carrying that 2006 Cavs team to the Finals then saying he's out in Game 1

again totally different breh

you can be off in any sport not 100% and the worst that happens you shoot like 10/24 or ish

in gymnastic you can be paralyzed

No one knows what simone was feeling, imagine she went out there and botched and broke her neck

She doesn't owe anyone anything health first

 

[Sinnerman]

Was this recent? I need names

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[MikelArteta]

If she go out there and rack up golds in individual and trying to smile like its all good if i was her teammate id hit her with the McKayla.

she will and you gon enjoy those olympic medals

 

[MikelArteta]

If you’re not mentally into football you can get your head cracked. If you’re not mentally into it for boxing you’re getting your head cracked. But now it’s ok for Simone because she threw the buzz words out and she’s likable.

you can in boxing you have a corner that can throw in the towel
in football coach can take you out and sub in someone else

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

What different in how she is scored vs before?

Simone Biles deserves higher scores

To understand the controversy over Biles’s score, you have to understand how scoring in gymnastics works. A gymnast’s score on any apparatus is the combination of an execution score graded out of a perfect 10 and a difficulty or starting value score. The latter is the important thing when it comes to Biles.

A routine’s difficulty score is the sum of all a gymnast’s moves in a routine: the higher the difficulty of the move, the more it’s worth, and the higher the total value goes. Provided you attempt those elements, that difficulty score value is yours to keep. What sets Biles apart from mortals is that her difficulty scores are much higher than those of her competitors.


This means that Biles’s potential scores are much higher than her competitors. You’ll also notice that in terms of execution (the “E” scores), she’s executing her harder skills at a similar clip, if not better (e.g. the vault in the first column), than her opponents. So she’s not only performing more difficult routines, but also executing them well. That leads to, as it did at the World Championships, a win by more than 2 points in a sport that — until Simone Biles — was decided by tenths and hundredths of a point.

The current controversy surrounding Biles is that she’s added new, more difficult skills but isn’t getting what should be the full credit reflected in her difficulty score.


Regardless of how mind-boggling or death-defying her elements appear, some gymnastics insiders say that both elements deserve to be scored higher. Lease says that he would score her around two-tenths higher on both elements and that even her floor routine is underscored. Biles herself said she believes that the International Gymnastics Federation (IGF) and judges are underscoring the elements.

“They’re both too low and they even know it,” Biles told the New York Times in May. “But they don’t want the field to be too far apart. And that’s just something that’s on them. That’s not on me.”

More info at the link.

This is the equivalent of Lebron scoring 80 pts and the NBA deciding that nah, we're going to give him 40 pts instead cause it's not fair to the rest of the players.

 

[Silver Surfer]

I will say this...she had a fault in a routine and still had a decent score...so there is an adjustment

She just should have never even came to Tokyo....now she a spectacle

 

[MustafaSTL]

you can in boxing you have a corner that can throw in the towel
in football coach can take you out and sub in someone else

If you’re in the football game and not mentally focused you can get clocked and hurt bad. If you’re boxing and not mentally in it and drop your hands you can get slugged in the jaw in half a second. If you’re in the batters box and not focused you could get hit in the head with a pitch. Hockey same stuff. On and on. This isn’t new. Stop treating her with kids gloves.

 

[Negro Caesar]

If she go out there and rack up golds in individual and trying to smile like its all good if i was her teammate id hit her with the McKayla.

Yeah she can’t go back out there and go individually

 

[Sbp]

You’re talking about Quinn? I’m pretty sure they’ve been playing for the women’s Canadian team for years already. It’s a non issue.

It's a man playing with women breh. Start a tranny league or something.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I will say this...she had a fault in a routine and still had a decent score...so there is an adjustment

She just should have never even came to Tokyo....now she a spectacle

To yall cacs maybe.

She still good with black ppl


And not trying to even make it a racial thing but its been well documented how yall do when it comes to black athletes. No beef