Simone Biles was so traumatised by her experience that she reappeared, all smiles, a little later to cheer her on the team she’d abandoned as they tried and failed to win the Gold they’d have almost certainly won if she’d stayed and battled on.
That’s a weird optic for a sporting champion, isn’t it?
Of course, no sportswriters will dare say any of this because they’re all too terrified of the woke mob coming for them, but I know many of them are thinking it because some have messaged me privately to say so.
One of the worst aspects of social media, especially Twitter, is not just the way it now celebrates losing, failure and quitting as greater achievements than winning, success and resilience, but the vicious manner it bullies and shames into silence anyone who deviates from this warped view of sporting achievement.
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