So far, every other Olympian, or other serious athlete, interviewed has said Simone Biles did...

[TreasonousBastard]

was right and proper. They sympathize, and many have been in her place.

There are times when you just shouldn't go on.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. If you're gonna call her the GOAT,

Which she is…then you should trust the GOAT’s judgement about whether or not she is able to perform at her best level.

The GOAT should know, right? She knew, I trust her.

[XanaDUer2]

2. What's GOAT? NT

[DenaliDemocrat]

4. Greatest Of All Time GOAT

Eom

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Greatest Of All Time

She is.

[OnlinePoker]

6. Nadia Comaneci is the GOAT in my opinion. n/t

[Aristus]

9. By 1970's gymnastics standards, certainly.

The sport has advanced immeasurably since then.

[LeftInTX]

16. OMG...I was looking at balance beam compilation over the years...

You have to click the link IOC does not allow embed. Heck I think even I and most of us could do the 1920' performance..LOL

It looks like 1968 was a big turning point in balance beam and it was lead by the Eastern Bloc...

&t=30s

Here is Agnes Keleti's gold performance from 1956. She is good, but very shakey, wobbly. She was 35 at the time. She is still alive and 100 years old.

[obamanut2012]

21. BOOM! And, she is definitely THE GOAT!

[DenaliDemocrat]

3. When you do a sport that is inherently dangerous

You trust your body or you risk severe injury. I was well on my way to a pro power lifting career, and could squat over 1000 lbs BUT everything had to perfect. There is no margin for error in things like that. Unless you are putting your ass on the line, people need to STFU.

[Traildogbob]

8. You mean

People like Piers Morgan. The athletic phenom he is? He can RUN like hell away from interview questions he don’t like. There needs to be a whole lot of Shutting The Fuck Up. As Kelly of Jesus and Santa are white fame, said to Lebron, “Shut up and dribble,” how about she and her ilk, just shut the fuck up and show us how they can dribble. How about everybody at Fox, OAN, and NewsMax Shut The Fuck Up and dribble. We could be great again.

[The King of Prussia]

11. Piers Morgan

Ran off his own show & resigned because the weather man disagreed with him. A truly feeble individual.

[Traildogbob]

15. When a weather man

Can chase you off in fear, ya need to hand in your testicular “conceal carry” card.

[DenaliDemocrat]

17. As the bonafide Meathead that I am

We would call Mr. Morgan “a little closet shit”

[Traildogbob]

18. 😂😂

Fitting. Let’s drop the “MR”. That title should be earned.

[11 Bravo]

7. Yeah, but doughy little shitweasel Charlie Kirk says she's a sociopathic coward ...

and who ya gonna listen to?

[TreasonousBastard]

10. I'm gonna listen to Mark Phelps, who earlier today said he knows exactly what Biles was...

going through.

Ya know, if you're on a team, you have plenty of times when the action slows and you can zone out for a few seconds. Maybe someone can pick up the slack. Can't do that when you're out there alone, and have to be perfect.

And then when you hear they changed the rules because you're "Too Good", watchoo gonna do?

[LeftInTX]

13. Let's throw Charlie Kirk in the Olympics, get your popcorn ready!

[JT45242]

12. The only legitimate question would be -- if she felt this way at trials?

Being #6 in women's gymnastics in the US, probably means you are in the top 15 in the world and might be able to compete for a medal in an event or the team competition. So, th elost opportunity for another athlete is the only part sticks out. I remember wathcing the trials and seeing the devastation on the face of #6 -- the first left out athlete.

Athletes know when it is time to walk away. And gymnastics is weird in that it is a pseudo-team sport -- really they compete as individuals but given the limitations on numbers from any given country there is a team aspect. (Kind of like the Australian who is third best at the Australia Olympic trials but had the second best time in the world this year and does not get to compete).

[LisaL]

14. Seems unlikely since she did so well at trials.

I think there was so much pressure on her for the Olympics, with everyone expecting nothing but the gold, and it got to her.

[Another Jackalope]

19. Twisties, vertigo, loss of proprioception

If she'd kept on going, she could have broken anything, like her back or neck for instance, and could have died.

'Simone Biles got the twisties, too:’ Olympian connects with former gymnasts over the feeling of disconnect in the air

Gael Mackie never called them the twisties. But she knew. Within split nanoseconds — the units of time in which gymnasts live their lives — she knew exactly what Simone Biles was talking about.

“They saw it a little bit in practice. Having a little bit of the twisties,” Biles had said Tuesday in Tokyo. “They” were her teammates. The “twisties?” Well, whatever they were, they had terrified the iconic gymnast’s U.S. colleagues. And they had played a part in forcing the greatest to ever do it to step away from doing it at all, on the biggest stage of all.

I saw a recording of Bart Conner and Nadia Comăneci being interviewed on CNN last night. Bart talked about the twisties, I suddenly understood why she walked, and how good and strong that decision was.

[LisaL]

20. Competitions on individual apparatus are coming up, and she qualified for all of them.

We still don't know if she will participate in those. I don't know how quickly the "twisties" can come and go.

[Another Jackalope]

22. They apparently come on suddenly

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/tokyo-olympics/twisties-biles-exit-brings-attention-athletes-mental-health

The “twisties” in gymnastics refer to a phenomenon wherein an experienced athlete suddenly loses their sense of where their body is in space – a sense that is crucial to the sport and the sudden loss of which could result not just in an Olympic loss but in serious bodily injury or even paralysis.

Gymnast Laurie Hernandez, Biles’ 2016 Olympic teammate, told Olympics.com that the so-called twisties can set in just as a gymnast attempts a high-level skill, when even a slight misstep could carry grave consequences.

“The rhythm is off, and your brain will like, stutter step for half a second, and that’s enough to throw off the whole skill,” Hernandez told Olympics.com. “And, so, it happens, and it takes a second to get over that.”

“What I think is really important here is, you have Simone, who clearly knew something wasn’t quite right, and when you are flying and flipping and turning 10, 15 feet above the floor, looking for a landing, you better be in the right headspace or really bad things are going to happen.”