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Anyone who has achieved a high level of success in any extremely difficult, competitive field understands that being “happy” just can not be a primary objective. That there will be possibly long periods of grueling work, stress , lack of sleep etc etc. that there must be an extremely high...

100% agree

I always had the impression that Ponor was an angry, hostile, aggressive person.

That is the more reasonable approach. Except that I kinda knew there was going to be a drop in performance and thus dominance right about now. I am just not at all surprised.

there may be some truth to that

and the US WAG was dominant before Simone. So Simone is not really the issue.

I think it is very clear that this is true. Extremely high expectations, lack of coddling, hard work and some commensurate pain are not synonymous with abuse. They just are not.

I actually pretty much agree with this

Right. And that's the thing. When a gymnast has that kind of unanticipated, almost meteoric rise expectations get blown up out of proportion.

You're right. I was just hoping for a podium. But, you are indeed right.

Worlds was a bummer for Dulcy, but this was not a big surprise

100%

I am also happy for Melnikova. For all the same reasons actually

I am very happy for Donnell as well

I can not believe we are having this conversation again.