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Originally Posted by BayouCountry
News this morning was all about how brave Biles is. Brave for quitting? Yeah, that really sends the right message to young Americans.
In Biles' defense, the judges were told not to give Biles additional points for difficulty. The new equity Olympics has arrived. Why risk the difficult moves if there is no reward?
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Hard to explain, but the Olympics isn't where you depend on extra fancy/ hard actions to win. Its not looked at as rewards, its looked at as probably increasing failure to medal. She was warned for her own benefit (and the Team's, its not about her, its about The Team overall), as unknown/ unrecognized things don't get judged equally for a reason: Judges haven't analyzed/ understood and assigned a level of difficulty to the new things. She was told to avoid them because everybody knows it would lower her score, just like the woman in ice skating a few years back who insisted on including a flip in her event after being warned to not do so (skating didn't want a trend that could cause bad injury to start). The media is making it sound like some sort of discrimination, when its a part of how any sport scored by the subjective judging of humans is handled.
In Fencing we teach the phrase "Fence for the Director", because no matter how fancy your bit is, if the Director doesn't see/ understand it- you lose.