2023 US Xfinity Nationals (Event Info and Qualified athletes)

[cftmoonlight79]

Yes i have CNBC. The 5 bucks is totally affordable, but its getting old to have to subscribe to all these different streaming things. They keep trying to put my baseball games on Peacock too. Then they put my NFL on Amazon and YouTube. Its all too much lol!

 

[RedBirdie]

Sunday Peacock baseball is awesome totally worth $6.

 

[JaJa]

Speaking as someone with major chronic medical issues who achieved at a very high level in a non-athletic field, I do agree that it’s different when it relates to the body and that the situation in the US doubtless makes that a harder discussion to have.

Being an elite gymnast is a totally different thing from achieving in many other (non athletic ) areas. Just totally different. I have had an extremely successful law career, first going to one of the best law schools in the country, then starting at one of the major "Wall Street’ firms then co-founding my own firm which has also been a surprising success. I have had to work very hard and at times “push through” all sorts of difficulites (not to mention years of endless sleep deprivation. However, I would never ever ever compare what I have done to the extreme hard physical (and mental) work done by elite gymnasts. Its not that one is more difficult or more commendable than the other. They are just radically different. With or without information on exactly what Suni’s medical issue is we are really not in a position to judge or evaluate her decisions in this regard.

 

[Deleted member 408]

Hence why I said “I do agree that it’s different”.

Something can be both significantly different (which, yes, it is), and also have some similarities. If what you’re saying is that being an elite gymnast is incomparable in all ways and facets to any other human experience… Well, I just don’t agree with that, I’m afraid. I don’t think the body of writings and talks by ex-elites supports that at all, either. On the contrary, I think it very strongly supports the idea that elite gymnasts are very different people physically - and in some ways have an extreme mindset mentally, although not necessarily that different from high achievers in other fields - but still ultimately just people.

Personally I think setting elite gymnasts apart as some kind of not-normal-humans creature is pretty unhelpful, and even risks being a bit dehumanising? I’m not saying that’s your intent, but I think it’s important to remember that actually, they are all just humans in the end. In the same way that it was wrong for the Karolyis to deprive young Romanian girls of a normal childhood (because they weren’t just mystical gymnastic prodigies, they were children), it’s also wrong to try and deny that very young women in sports can make similar mistakes to young women in other fields.