Gymnastics Is Giving Out Bullshit Scoring Because Simone Biles Is Too Good At Dominating The World In The Sport
I'm sorry but what the fuck is this? You can't be out here changing rules because Simone Biles is - and I quote a famous Barstool shirt - too good, too fast, too American. All because she broke out this move which apparently can't be done by anyone besides Biles.
It's an Olympic year, which means it's time to really boast about how good America is at everything. It's time to wipe the world in all these events and chant USA in their face. You can change all your rules, it won't matter. Biles is still going to kick the world's ass. She'll just create another sick move and then tweet about how she can't believe how she pulled it off.
This isn't even the first time it happened to Biles (h/t NBC)
Biles was disappointed that the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) gave a preliminary (but not final) 6.6 difficulty value, making it the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics by two tenths of a point. She believes it should be 6.8, and U.S. high-performance team coordinator Tom Forster is on her side.
Biles likened it to 2019, when she debuted a balance beam dismount that was given a difficulty score two tenths lower than what she believed it should be. Biles called that decision “bull—-” two years ago. The FIG chose the lower value in part due to concern over safety. Gymnasts could be more willing to try the dismount — a double-twisting double back — before they were ready if the difficulty value was higher.
“There’s no point in putting up a fight because they’re not going to reward it the correct value, but that’s OK,” Biles said Saturday of the vault. “They’re both too low, and they even know it, but they don’t want the field to be too far apart. … They had an open-end Code of Points [instituted in 2006], and now they’re mad that people are too far ahead and excelling.”
I hope Biles and the rest of Team USA breaks out shit we've never seen before. Shove it in the judge's face, shove it in the world's face.