The Downfall of Simone Biles (and why it wasn't her fault)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Simone Biles dominated the headlines at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but not in the way that anyone expected. Her withdrawal from both the team and individual all-around competitions changed the Games completely, and sparked a controversy around mental health in sports that’s still going on today. After all this time, we’re still asking the same question we were a year ago-what happened to Simone Biles? Was her gymnastics career always destined to end this way, or was there something she could have done about it?
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Video ending: Simone Biles elite gymnastics career is over.
2024: boy do I have some news for you.
I completely agree with you 100% on this video. I am a hugeeeee Simone Biles fan and it’s completely understandable why she decided to put her mental health first. I hope that you mention her Podium Training routines in Part 2 as although it was not counted as an Olympic competition, she showed exactly what she was capable of and what she the skills she was planning to compete. Her talent is undeniable and people get so caught up saying that she “quit” when in reality she probably said, a gold medal is not worth landing on my neck and ending up paralyzed or even worse, SPECIALLY with the skills she was performing. I applaud her for putting herself first.
They r forcing her to retire to not break the records like they did Serena white people r just evil
@@keke1093 Perhaps, but I hope she decides to come back & do it for HERSELF, regardless of what anyone says. Either way, she has made her mark on the support & at this point is completely up to her & her mental sanity, because on top of gold medals, her mental health comes first. It’s not like she needs more gold medals because EVERYONE knows there’s just no one that can come even close to her. Whatever she decides to do, there’s no doubt we were all blessed to have witnessed this once in a lifetime athlete.
I AGREE 1000,000%
The fact that Simone not only came back, not only _dominated,_ not only won the individual all-around _AGAIN,_ but did all of it at _TWENTY SEVEN YEARS OLD?_
GOAT is not a strong enough word.
Great video. You hit the nail on the head. Before Simone represents the US at an Olympics, she is representing USAG. Now imagine the awkwardness of USAG putting her on a pedestal and exploiting her accomplishments while she was in active litigation with them as she ran down that vault runway in Tokyo and lost her air awareness. Stated differently, she was representing and competing for the defendant in her lawsuit while at the Olympics. She has gone through so much trauma from Nassar alone and so many morons failed to connect the dots. So, thank you.
They r forcing her to retire to not break the records like they did Serena white people r just evil
Yes, anyone who says “it’s Biles fault” “she quit” I would like them to compete at the highest level and do what she does.
She couldnt use adderral in those games
@@mattk8810 False. Athletes that had permission for various medications were given exemptions by the Japanese to bring all of their allowed medications with them.
Damn at the end of this video you said her elite gymnastics career is over and now she's in Paris for the 2024 Olympics breaking records!!
I just watched, and had the same reaction! What a plot twist! The title could be changed from “The Downfall of Simone Biles” to “The Temporary Setback of Simone Biles”!
i literally just came to the comments to say this as soon as i heard that! her elite career is far from over ❤
Dated! Her downfall wasn’t permanent!
Can you make a video about her comeback? Cause her career is very much not over yet
would love to
I don’t like the title of this video; just seems a bit harsh. But what Simone Biles did at the Tokyo Olympics is worth a thousand times more than a gold medal. She’s inspired me and millions of others to put our mental, emotional, and physical health first.
It is troll bait. Or more well known as clickbait. But, if you know how the comment algorithm works, the comments with the most dislikes (which are not shown, FU TH-cam) go to the bottom when sorted by top comments. You can find all the trolls at the bottom currently. Lol.
They r forcing her to retire to not break the records like they did Serena white people r just evil
@@aaronsandman749 i wouldnt exactly call them trolls at the bottom. they just aren’t algorithmically prioritized aka they don’t have as many likes. that is a matter of whether or not other users agree with the comment not if they are trolls. troll =/= unpopular comment. trolling = trolling; but, yeah, the title is just clickbait because obviously simone didn’t have a downfall and she is now back, so this title aged poorly
Thought the same thing two years ago, "That is some real GOAT behavior right there." Thanks for making this video series!
Watching this video after her 2024 Olympics and it’s crazy that you’re right and absolutely aged well
I wish I could locate the video but on Simone's vault you can hear Tim, just as she lands, say, "uh oh...she had no idea where she was in the air on that vault". I have tried to find this so I can link it for the people that think she just up and quit, but I can't remember the title of the video.
Great Video! Very well put together, definately gonna be waiting for part 2. I remember being a little confused when she pulled out last year, and then defending her when people around me were calling her selfish for doing so, so it's great to get a little more insite into the situation, you really did some fantastic research.
Plans to cover her comeback?
Incredible video, thank you so much. You’ve got a new subscriber, and I’m excited for part 2!
I am pretty sure that, if she wants, she can still compete for 5 more Olympic Games and still get at least the podium. Amazing Simone, she was and still is very brave.
Thinking about her age and she just won a team, all around vault gold medals at the Olympics! So proud of her
Here at 2k subscribers. Looking forward to your incredible rise on this side of the TH-cam market. The quality, info, and content of your vids is up there with Jimmy Highroller and Rusty Buckets. Thank you!
Not just gymnastics.... I have worked in some of the world's largest companies, and this is how we worked.
"Elite career is over" nek minit, Simone is about to compete for her 4th and 5th medal of the Paris Olympics
I dont consider Simone having a downfall. She knew she couldn't perform that day and didnt want to risk injury.
Her nerves and the pressure got to her. They kept harping on her. I was happy to hear she had the courage to walk away.
Glad larry Nasser was caught. I was date raped young. I cant imagine SA everytime you go to dr.
Nadia Comăneci from Romania is the ABSOLUTE GREATEST of all time!
Only due to Nadia, Simone is where she is now.
Let's see if she makes that comeback for the 2024 Olympics ;-)
😅🤣 downfall of who? Because our girl is all around gold again!!!!
Simone is the greatest, the evidence is there people and jealousy is terrible, she had the twistes and
suffered a sudden death in her family and wanted to rush back to her family...no shame in that guys.
She also was forced off her ADHD medication which I'd forbidden under Japan law.
Let me tell you messing with someone's chemical cocktail needed for your brain to function can be awful. I had literal brain zaps when transitioning a med.
She did much more for the sport. I hope the next generation of athletes speak out against abuse, body shaming and competing injured. Simone has shown them how to do it.
I like to compare gymnastics with competitive climbing. Both sports require to focus on the task, commit fully to the next move, overcome pain and wear and tear, and accept the risk of serious injury. But the cultures are completely different. The climbers support each other, literally cheer for each other despite being competitors, accept that even the best fail to make it to the top sometimes, try to do things as safe as possible, have fun climbing, and are as a result, fun to watch. I hope gymnastics can be similar one day.
I don't think any rational person disagrees with Simone's decision to withdraw from team competition. It was best for her safety and the team result as all scores count in the team final, and if she had said that and stopped there would not have been any controversy. However, it continued on into a crusade for mental health and putting yourself first and I think that's what some people object to. When you decide to compete for a team you can't then talk about putting yourself first. I guess everyone now thinks Kerri Strug should not have made that second vault in Atlanta.
I'm not certain, but I am pretty sure Kerri Strugg has commented saying she should not have done that second vault, since it affectively ended her career. And since after she has supported Simone's decision, further confirming that theory.
@@aaronsandman749 Kerri Stug has said doing that second vault was basically life changing for her in a positive way so I don't think she regrets it. It also didn't end her career, she was planning to retire after the games anyway.
Can’t get past the title. Downfall? Tough times yes. Downfall? No way.
Happened with skills or not, she changed her mind and activities change her actitud how to be the best, became alone, to much to face and protect from started growing around 💌💥
Nicely done.
When you have the Ace in the hole and the rest of the face cards to match, it is only human to get upset when you don't have the winning hand and the ace turns out to be the joker. Whatever mental issues Simone was going through at the last Olympics, yeah, I was upset because the last thing I wanted was the cheating Russians to win. At least Sunni won AA and Jade and Mikaela [sp] won individual medals. Simone was our greatest female gymnast, and no one can ever take away that accolade. I wish her the absolute best always. The Nassar years scarred our gymnasts and they will suffer PTSD for much of their adult lives. It's a sh!tty world we live in when such outrageous acts can go 'undetected' for years. Shame on everyone who didn't listen.
Fantastic video!
All Good with her deciding to put first her mental health, but she had a team behind her!! And if she didn't feel good about herself it was more than mature than said "you know i can't, mentally i can't, and i rather to give it the chance to another competitors that can make s better job than me". Depression and mental problems doesn't come from one day to another!
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Are y’all still talking about this?
depends on what you mean by "y'all"
@@studentofthegame I feel like we should just leave the girl alone. Hasn’t she been through enough?
@@blakewalsh879 She has, but she's also one of the most prominent case studies in the effects of abuse/trauma in sports. I don't think anyone should go after her by any means but it's still a conversation that needs to be had
@@studentofthegame the click-baity title does undermine your arguments.
Heartbeaking to know these amazing young ladies were thrown to wolves such as Nassar & Karolys. Happened FOR DECADES. The girls' wellbeing was not as important as gold & money. I respect Simone for saying enough is enough, since no one else cared for her safety.
Simone is a hero and survivor. I feel bad for all the girls who were abused. They didn't deserve that and all the people who covered up crimes should be held responsible.
Also those male conservatives who shamed her need to stfu. They don't even care about women's sports and no nothing about gymnastics. Simone is a legend and nothing can change that.
look at her nowww :)))
Let's goo
Tim Daggett won a Team Gold Medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and has been an Analyst since he retired in 1988 many former Gymnasts are or have been Analysts for their sport some of them for many years like Shannon Miller and Nastia Liukin among others Miller retired in 2000 after she withdrew from the team trials due to injury granted she had won 7 Olympic medals in her two previous games she competed in Barcelona Spain 1992 and Atlanta Georgia 1996 there are 7 female Gymnasts who have won 7 Olympic medals including Shannon Miller and Simone Biles if Simone competes in Paris 2024 and wins team all around Gold Individual all around Gold on Vault and Floor and individual all around silver on Bars and Beam she will become the 2nd most decorated Olympic Gymnast female ever behind only Larisa Latynina of The Soviet Union who has 18 medals from three Olympics 1956 1960 and 1964. oh and as for the World Championships Simone is already the most decorated Gymnast ever with 30 medals 23 gold 4 silver 3 bronze up to 2023 in Antwerp Belgium next years world championships haven't been announced where they are yet 2026 are in Rotterdam Netherlands and 2027 are in Chengdu China who knows with Simone though she could try to be the first American to make 4 Olympic teams Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020 Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028
My problems with Simone are as follows:
1. She put the goat on her leo, no one made her do it, so she can't complain about others putting pressure on her. I think when Suni beat her on day 2 of the trials she got scared.
2. In the days following her withdrawal, the story changed 2 or 3 times until they found something the public would swallow.
3. She could have withdrawn anytime prior to the start of competition and an alternate could have gone in. The true alternates were I believe out with Covid, but they could have but Jade Carey in. Put in Jade's vault over Simone's botched vault, and Jade's floor over the lowest floor score and we give ROC a fight. Had she not gone to trials, they would have constructed the team differently and Jade and Leanne Wong would have made the team, and we probably win gold. She stole medals from those girls.
I sympathize with her struggles, but she was selfish in her timing.
Jade was chosen for individual events only, she would not have been allowed to participate in the team final whether Simone was there or not. And considering the actual alternates were sick, the result would’ve either been Suni, Jordan and Grace doing the same thing they’d had to do anyway, or team USA having to withdraw from the team event for not having enough available competitors.
You realize her team supplies her uniforms, not her? Lol.
@@aaronsandman749 for international competitions they wear team USA leos, for things like US Championships the wear leos from their home gym. She is an owner of her gym. She chose to put the goat on the leo.
@@sarahgwizdala4468 She has spoken about this after competition in interviews at home games where they asked her about the goat on her uniform. After Rio they added the goat, and it was not her decision. You can claim that because NOW she wears it consistently that it was her decision but that's not being truthful nor factual. According to her own words of course.
And obviously at her own gym she can wear whatever she wants, lmao.
How cute you even numbered the ways you are victim blaming.
SIMONE BILES IS THE G.O.A.T.!
SHE OWES NO-ONE NOTHING!
I was a huge Simone Biles fan, but I can't deny that she relished the limelight months before the Olympics; goat Leos, FB series, showboating on interviews that she cant be beat.
The pressure caused her to cave. Any athlete who's very active on social media & is pushed as the favourite athlete; always fail when it's time to shine.
Additionally, she was spooked by Suni's & Jade's top tier performances
Why would she be spooked by Jade?? Jade was only just barely inside the 10 ten in qualies. If anything, the threat would’ve been Suni, Rebecca and Gelya who ended up being the medalists in the first place.
Michael Jordan didn't have the flu. He was very hung over.
Biles decided to go to the Olympics because she knew she could make millions in pre hype advertising. It was worth all the work outs at her age and she made millions. Imagine how pissed those endorsers were when she balked right at the beginning! She NEVER complained of the twisties in almost 15 years of competitions. No way in hell was that the reason. When she blew that first vault I think it spooked her and she freaked. I think it embarrassed her so bad that she had to come up with an excuse why she couldn't continue. I really feel sorry for the other girls.
simone * od * mode * |x * biles * 9 * XTRA * POINTEZ *
While I respect her on protecting her mental health, I always thought it wasn't genuine.
It's like she just copied Naomi Osaka who was dealing with mental health and pressure as well. But Osaka was talking about it for months leading to it. Seeing Simone with her beauty, her talent, her husband, her millions and millions, her popularity and support online...it just didn't seem authentic and still doesn't. For me, she put her own self before her team which is not the time to do that, especially against Russia. Grishina did that in London too but that was different. She refused to do beam because she was seriously having a panic attack which carried over to floor which was her best event. She still went out there and failed epically. Simone copped out. Plain and simple..whether there was politics involved and she was rebelling, I don't know. Or she was using mental health as a crutch to escape being canceled for being selfish. IDK...I know that excuse would never fly today. She would be called woke and lose her endorsements for quitting.
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Oh, come on, Biles knew that she wasn't doing well based on the previous 3 international and Olympic trial events. She was uncontrolled, going out of range, etc. But, no one scored her accordingly. So, when she hit that vault poorly, and she was judged accordingly, you could see that she was done and didn't want to sully her career. Which is fair. It's just that judges prior to the Olympics weren't honest with their scoring. If they were, Biles wouldn't have made the team.
You do realize she was the one who was the one who got 1st spot on the team. In preliminary she qualified for all event, which has never been done before. Also with all the mistakes she had in qualifying she was still ahead of everybody at the Olympics in gymnastics. So can you explain what you are really trying to say in your comments?
@@sophiaph7345 look at the
2-3 competitions before the Olympics. She wasn't on her top, but the judges didn't judge accordingly, she was put in 1st place when she had no place even being put of the Olympic team. Same info as before.
That's not true and just shows you know nothing about gymnastics. Her skills are so hard that even if she goes out of bounds sometimes she will place first, and she even qualified first in the Olympics before the team final. Her vault in the team final was totally a different story, she didn't complete all her twists and had a short, emergency landing because she lost spatial awareness ("twisties").
@@MariaE629 Going out of bounds should be a hearty deduction. Period.
@@MariaE629 that's how much you know about actual gymnastics. You bought into the PR. Fine, many people did.