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Today, 12:26 PM | #167 |
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You or anybody can call it whatever you want. We cannot be so obtuse, either, as to say any problem we mentally face is a "Mental Health" to conflate it with something serious as clinical depression.
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Today, 12:32 PM | #168 | |
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Today, 12:35 PM | #169 |
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Not exactly. For one, this greatly minimizes the danger we are told she would have been putting herself in by competing compared to Mahomes. I can buy that the twisties is dangerous though and that’s fine. But, by her competing she kept someone off the team entirely. She competed in one event in the team final, did poorly and got a silver out of it that someone else could have gotten. I’m not going to just say it was completely selfish or anything because maybe she had a chance to work through it but it is still a valid criticism that she wasn’t able to finish. Calling it a mental health issue isn’t a shield that absolves her of any criticism at all or for not being able to take that performance into account when discussing greatest athlete ever. |
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Today, 01:12 PM | #172 |
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Not really. There was always the option of Henne coming in to play if Mahomes couldn't fight through the injury. It would be an accurate comparison is Mahomes would have driven the backup QBs to the bus station and put them all on a bus to Argentina the night before the game and then decided he wasn't going to play.
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Today, 01:29 PM | #173 |
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There is a difference between having anxiety in the office and having anxiety from a near death experience that has you terrified about going on top of a scaffold. So yes, it is unique. I’m sure you wouldn’t push a ski jumper or downhill skier to just power through it if they know something is off.
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Today, 01:42 PM | #175 |
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Also keep in mind that this mental health issue we are talking about involved US gymnastics protecting a monster who abused her and was a serial abuser to many other gymnasts. That loomed very large in the last Olympics. That is unique to this situation and is absolutely a reasonable excuse for not being in the right headspace. Just to clarify that it wasn’t just casual stress any athlete might experience.
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