Which is why jade and suni had to redraw their routines on the fly. I think americans are now being dinged on execution scores. In Latynina's era there was pressure, of course, to win medals for the Soviet Union, which used elite sport as a tool to boost its international prestige.īut she Said Soviet authorities' desire for the country's athletes to top medal tables was not perceived as coercion. "In our day that would have been - that would have been unacceptable." Latynina says it’s definitely a new trend. Her decision has sparked an outpouring of support from athletes and Hollywood for being vocal about her mental health and prioritizing it. I don’t know if I would have started gymnastics or not."īiles was expected to be a frontrunner in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.īut she withdrew from the gymnastics team finals and all-around individual finals due to concerns about her mental well-being. Looking at what gymnasts do today, I'm a little afraid. "What we did is not comparable to what modern gymnasts do. Like much of the world, she was stunned to see Simone Biles, the four-time Olympic champion withdraw from events due to mental health concerns.īiles could have challenged Latynina's record of 32 combined Olympic and world championship medals.īut the Soviet athlete says gymnastics has become even more physically and psychologically grueling than in her day. The 86-year-old Soviet gymnast has 18 medals. Larisa Latynina is the most decorated Olympic gymnast in history. It seems all other countries are capable of doing this but the US Team. That's no fault of Simone's, however it's a major flaw in the scoring system.įurther, they should either have a mandatory deduction for atrocious dance (looking at the Americans) or offer a bonus for actually dancing and not just standing there and waving your arms around while you catch a breath. If deductions had actually ben given the same weight as they had prior to the scoring change, there's no way Simone would have been able to get as many titles as she has. You fall off a piece of equipment? It's a mandatory 30% off your score. You go out of bounds? Each time you do it's a mandatory 10% off your total. The fair way to do it is a base percent off your score so that it impacts each athlete exactly the same. You should not be able to fall or step out and still win a medal. This standard 1/10 or 1 point deduction is worthelss when the athletes will just pile on the skills so that no matter what, they'll still win. R138, yeah they need to fix the Execution score as well as the deduction amounts. BTW, the Russian team isn't representing Russia so why are they at the games? by Anonymous How much is Putin paying you to shit on American athletes during these O games, huh? Nothing is left off the table for Putey, right? Everyone is game, especially beloved, admired athletes who work incessantly through injury and disappointment to reach the highest pinnacle of their sport. Your critical thinking skills are woefully low, your lousy rationale is perilously close to idiotic Trumpers who refuse vaccines, don't believe that covid is real, and still cling to the fantasy that Biden lost. she's lazy? Or she needs more attention? Or just she's too fragile? Or what? You're reasoning is literally insane. You hate-filled halfwitted soulless assholes really believe that she just pulled "stunt" because. She's been through this condition before, she knows what she can still fight through and what she can't. Lots of flipping but that's not the challenge. She'll probably adjust a few of her moves but if you really were invested, you'l watch her routine to see that she performs almost no twisting. The BEAM doesn't require the same amount of twisting that the other events do. You know NOTHING about the sport and the more you write, the more ignorant you self-own. Why does this young black woman bring out such hate and hostility from a bunch of losers on a gay men's forum? WTF do you care so deeply that you much write such bile and hateful nonsense?
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