There's a famous case in the 1988 Olympics when Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board.
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There's a famous case in the 1988 Olympics when Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board.
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If you go to the gymnastics on iplayer (it'll be under Olympics 2020 day 4), they usually show the medals and an interview at the end.
I do feel sorry for her because she’s very visible and the poster girl for gymnastics, especially in America. Lots of comments on social media are very mean to her. I think not having a crowd there really does impact the athletes, especially when they are struggling. Hearing people cheer for you can boost you mentally and physically.
Maybe it’s actually the woman’s team I was thinking of rather than another sportwe have a women’s GB team though
and ended up videos about Olympic cheaters and banned gymnastics moves 
Whilst I totally agree with this, I do, it must be crazy pressure- would she not have felt like this aswell at home in Training and also surely she wouldn't want the last 4 years to be a complete waste of time? I really hope she recovers and she comes back for the other events and do what she's clearly able to do and just go for it!!
Biles uncertain if she will continue at Tokyo Games
Simone Biles was left weighing her Olympic future on Tuesday after dropping out of the women's gymnastics team final at the Tokyo Summer Games after one disappointing vault saying she had to focus on her mental health.www.reuters.com
A part of me feels sympathetic but also I still cannot help but see her as unprofessional in the situation. She really should have pulled out (or been pulled out) before the start of the event at the latest. It’s an utterly selfish move
But that's the right decision at the time definitely, she could really hurt herself. But surely she was already feeling like this enough to know that it would actually mess up her routines?Tbh I think the opposite. She recognised she wasn’t in the right frame of mind to continue and thus wouldn’t perform well. If she believed her teammates would do better than her, immediately removing herself as opposed to muddling on to a second apparatus was the right thing to do for the team. It’s not like she left them with no talent to fill in
Nobody would call a footballer selfish for needing to be subbed off for whatever reason
Tbh I think the opposite. She recognised she wasn’t in the right frame of mind to continue and thus wouldn’t perform well. If she believed her teammates would do better than her, immediately removing herself as opposed to muddling on to a second apparatus was the right thing to do for the team. It’s not like she left them with no talent to fill in
Nobody would call a footballer selfish for needing to be subbed off and just because she wasn’t physically injured, it doesn’t mean her mental health isn’t just as important.
It must be difficult when you are so used to winning, and everyone is telling you that you are going to win. Anything you do that is seen as being out of form must be very disheartening, but if she felt like that already it's sad that it had to hamper the other girls in the team event. I understand the mental pressure but they all have that, and the poor Chinese gymnast face-planted off the bars, so to me it does have shades of spitting the dummy, but she wouldn't be the first. Nobody likes to perform badly when big things are expected. As she said herself, it must hurt your pride to have an unexpectedly poor vault.