Mary Lou Retton is the GOAT.

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Jul 27, 2021
11:18:49am

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1984 was the first and last time I really cared about women’s gymnastics.

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CrimsonCardinal

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Reading more about this, Simone is 24 (ancient in gymnast years) and hasn't been

shoganai

7/27/21 8:00am

Really frustrating for the alternates who could have been on the team and were good enough to help earn gold.

Tokolosh

7/27/21 8:03am

Really selfish on her part

Turd Ferguson

7/27/21 8:05am

It was probably not even her decision, primarily.

shoganai

7/27/21 8:08am

True. But she knew before tonight that she couldn't do it.

Turd Ferguson

7/27/21 8:20am

How do you know that?

Endocoug

7/27/21 8:29am

weeks of practice leading up to this. She knew if she could hit the routines

Turd Ferguson

7/27/21 9:43am

What was selfish? What’s the reason she couldn’t compete?

Endocoug

7/27/21 8:28am

Well we know the reasons are mental,

EQD2

7/27/21 10:27am

That girl Jade is nails and should have been on the team. She got screwed with

rivercitycoug

7/27/21 8:21am

Except she already competed in the team

Remigius

7/27/21 8:03am

I'm assuming it's an endurance issue.

shoganai

7/27/21 8:08am

While I am no expert, after watching I do have to wonder how much her mistakes were overlooked in scoring...

Tokolosh

7/27/21 8:08am

The US Gymnastics admin, overlooking something, or making poor judgement. I'm

Cougero

7/27/21 8:21am

Yeah no history of that. Not sure what people are thinking.

Turd Ferguson

7/27/21 8:24am

Hard to say. Does she get a benefit bc she’s the GOAT? Probably. But she also

rivercitycoug

7/27/21 8:26am

In qualifiers three US gymnasts did the exact same vault, including Biles. She scored higher despite an error.

Tokolosh

7/27/21 8:31am

Yeah, she had several egregious errors but still had the best score in almost every event.

Endocoug

7/27/21 8:35am

Obviously they all had errors.

JuicyJam

7/27/21 8:51am

To an untrained judge like me I actually thought her vaults were worse than the other two gymnasts. But I don't know.

Tokolosh

7/27/21 8:58am

That’s why gymnastics kind of sucks. 99% of the audience can’t see

JuicyJam

7/27/21 9:11am

I wonder if sports journos and advertisers will start doing due diligence

bluelands

7/27/21 8:09am

The pandemic stole an entire year, which can be devastating for any prime elite

shoganai

7/27/21 8:23am

Donovan Brazier comes to mind. … that was crazy.

(Private)

7/27/21 8:33am

Seriously.

RUNBYU1

7/27/21 8:40am

Yep. Caught some of the US trials. She was making all sorts of mistakes but

rocker

7/27/21 8:12am

It seems pretty shocking.

JuicyJam

7/27/21 8:16am

I’m not following the logic

Endocoug

7/27/21 8:22am

Simone is still the best gymnast on the planet and it's not even close. So this

Incentivize

7/27/21 8:24am

You're right. I know next to nothing.

shoganai

7/27/21 8:26am

Signs of decline … but still the best in the world and of all time.

Endocoug

7/27/21 8:31am

The poor version of her was still better than any in the world 2 days ago.

Belboz

7/27/21 8:50am

But that's just the controversy. Many don't believe she was the best

EQD2

7/27/21 10:29am

One of the timeless challenges in sport.

shoganai

7/27/21 9:01am

Are you suggesting Simone “just can’t do it anymore”?

Endocoug

7/27/21 9:03am

Simone is claiming it. Not me.

shoganai

7/27/21 9:08am

Link? When did she claim she can’t do it anymore?

Endocoug

7/27/21 9:23am

I think that dropping out of the team events is a pretty clear admission that

shoganai

7/27/21 9:35am

I don't think many seriously consider she's going to make it through the

EQD2

7/27/21 10:31am

I ache for these young people. It’s as if

BlackHawkCoug

7/27/21 8:26am

But they’ve done this for years. Comes with the territory

Memmo

7/27/21 9:36am

They are kids. We’re in a pandemic. The

BlackHawkCoug

7/27/21 11:04am

Somewhat unrelated, but did you see the 46 year old female gymnast competing

byusage

7/27/21 8:47am

…and she looked older than 46.

NewMexiCoug

7/27/21 9:08am

I did not, but I was thinking about

BlackHawkCoug

7/27/21 9:14am

Eh, still not as impressive as this guy

Mike Honcho

7/27/21 9:23am

A euro team has a 46 year old on their women's gymnastics team.

SoValleyCOUG

7/27/21 10:44am

Mary Lou Retton is the GOAT.

CrimsonCardinal

7/27/21 11:18am

she had a cushy path

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