Naomi Osaka — now with Simone Biles!!

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1 hour ago, IGotWorms said:

Chris Rock also called other black people the n word. You can’t.

I know it’s really horrible and unfair

Not calling them the "n" word doesn't change what many of them are. 

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Looks like her mental health is all better now...

American star Simone Biles to return for balance beam finals

https://wtop.com/olympics/2021/08/american-star-simone-biles-to-return-for-balance-beam-finals/

TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles is back.

The 2016 Olympic gymnastics champion will return to competition in the balance beam final on Tuesday, a little over a week after stepping away from the meet to focus on her mental health.

“We are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S. athletes in the balance beam final tomorrow — Suni Lee AND Simone Biles!! Can’t wait to watch you both!” USA Gymnastics said in a statement.

The 24-year-old Biles won bronze on beam in Rio de Janeiro five years ago and qualified for the eight-woman final at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre on the first weekend of the Games.

She removed herself from the team final on July 27 after a shaky performance on vault during the first rotation. She watched from the sidelines as her three American teammates completed the meet without her; the U.S. took silver behind the team known as the Russian Olympic Committee.

The six-time Olympic medalist later said she was dealing with issues surrounding air awareness, referred to as “the twisties” in her sport.

Biles qualified for all five individual event finals but took herself out of four of them: the all-around, vault, floor exercise and uneven bars. Lee earned the gold in the all-around, becoming the fifth straight American to claim the sport’s marquee title.

Considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time and the unquestioned face of the U.S. Olympic movement when she arrived in Japan, Biles continued to train and be evaluated daily by the USA Gymnastics staff after opting out of multiple finals. She has also been a fixture in the stands supporting Lee, MyKayla Skinner and Jade Carey while they competed in the event finals.

She went into extensive detail about “the twisties” last week, explaining she lost the confidence of knowing what her body was going to do in midair. It’s not the first time Biles dealt with the problem, though she did say the issues followed her to both uneven bars and beam.

Previous bouts with the phenomenon were limited to floor exercise and vault, where more twisting elements are required.

“I’m really proud of her for coming back,” said American Jade Carey, who won gold on floor exercise Monday while Biles watched surrounded by the rest of the U.S. women’s team. “She’s been through a lot this Olympics so I’m really proud and happy to see her going after beam.”

Finishing her second Olympics — and perhaps her career — on balance beam is poetic justice of sorts for Biles. She got bronze in Rio despite grabbing the 4-inch piece of wood that’s 4 feet off the ground when she almost slipped mid-routine. It was her fifth medal at the Games. The other four were gold.

Biles has called the bronze the medal she earned in Brazil that she’s proudest of, and she’s taken to task those who called it a disappointment, using it as proof to the double standard she believes follows her whenever she competes.

Athletes from all over — both at the Olympics and elsewhere — have rallied around her over the past week, praising her courage for speaking up about the importance of mental health.

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So if she doesn't win gold - she is the self proclaimed GOAT afterall - what will the headlines read?

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Yeah I like to take a little mental break every now and then as well. However, doing it in the middle of the focking Olympics seems a little ill-timed.

I mean, get through it, then say hey I gotta back away for a while so, sorry, but I’m not doing all the press junkets and stuff. But she wouldn’t do that, because those mean $$$

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/naomi-osaka-breaks-down-tears-000617057.html

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Naomi Osaka broke down in tears in her first press conference since withdrawing from the French Open and Wimbledon for mental health reasons.

While speaking with press on Monday ahead of her appearance at the Ohio WTA tournament, Osaka got visibly emotional after Cincinnati Enquirer sports columnist Paul Daugherty asked her about her fraught relationship with the media.

“You’re not crazy about dealing with us, especially in this format, yet you have a lot of outside interests that are served by having a media platform,” Daugherty said. “I guess my question is, how do you balance the two, and also do you have anything you’d like to share with us about what you did say to Simone Biles?”

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Following the presser on Monday, Osaka’s agent, Stuart Duguid, lambasted Daugherty for being a “bully” in a statement given to E! News.

“The bully at the Cincinnati Enquirer is the epitome of why player / media relations are so fraught right now,” Duguid said in a statement. “Everyone on that Zoom will agree that his tone was all wrong and his sole purpose was to intimidate. Really appalling behavior.”

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I hope she gets bullied worse than that on the tennis court, otherwise her competitors aren’t doing their jobs

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13 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

I hope she gets bullied worse than that on the tennis court, otherwise her competitors aren’t doing their jobs

So she pulled out due to mental illness. So what?

It's something your dad should have done. 

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So brave.

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58 minutes ago, KSB2424 said:

 

She knows she's not that good.  She just being allowed to parlay her 15 mins into 20 because of her race.

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Just wow