Twenty-four hours later, I’m feeling better and better about this take from yesterday afternoon.
Especially now that Biles has quit not just the team competition but the individual all-around competition as well.
My point was that people on both sides of this are grossly overstating their case. On one side is the “tough it out” group that wants to insult Biles for lacking fortitude, never mind that she’s been the world’s greatest gymnast for upwards of a decade and is the reining Olympic all-around champion. She has nothing left to prove. She’s faced the toughest possible pressure in the past and responded by making her sport look like child’s play. Here’s Jason Whitlock calling her “cowardly” at length…
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