Simone Biles, Olympic Pressures, and Athlete Autonomy
Simone Biles withdrew from Olympic competition after experiencing a psychological barrier known as the yips during a vault performance. The situation highlights the extreme pressures placed on athletes by the International Olympic Committee, including restrictive COVID-19 protocols and cardboard beds. Comparisons are drawn between the treatment of Olympic athletes and the high-pressure environment of TED Talk fellows.
simone biles· olympics· international olympic committee· mental health· the yips
00:00 They test after you're dead. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday July 29th 2021 this is your award winning Gimbo Nation Media assassination episode 1368 This is no agenda Firing up the heat map and broadcasting live from the heart of Texas Hill Country FEMA region number six in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where we've got Olympic fever I'm John C. Dvorak Who has Olympic fever? Nobody. Nobody has Olympic fever and we had a fever and then our athlete quit! Yeah, that was weird Well you could see her she did I saw her do one thing she did a vault i think yeah where you jump and spin in land And you can see it She has lost Her mojo
01:02 No, it's she tried to explain and I think the other people would come in to try to explain It just called a bunch of there is no more than choking Mm-hmm. Is a they call it the yips? Yips. Yeah, the yips, of course its psychological It's a psychological barrier to the... and I'm reminded of an old Star Trek episode where... here we go. Yeah, woohoo! Alright, boomer time. Where Spock had his brain removed to become the center of a ship Bones had to put the brain back into Spock and he put on this helmet that gave him all his extra brain power. And he started putting the brain back in saying, this is as easy as anything I can't believe it! This is ridiculously easy and then he's doing it and then the thing wears off
01:50 And then he starts to go into, oh my god how am I even doing this? This is not possible. There's too many connections and he freaks out and that is the kind of thing that happened to her when she did her vault you could tell she didn't even do it right and landed poorly She has lost something It's very strange to see, but it's like you had this highly tuned person and it is a dangerous sport. Let's face it! Oh yeah, well to me I understood the obvious when you say mental health problems... A lot of people see that as a snowflake move when in general even if you get the yips great golfers don't necessarily quit they continue and I understand its dangerous what I personally thought was oh hell yeah
02:40 These athletes are slaves. They're slaves to the International Olympic Committee! They've been made to sleep on fold-out cardboard beds, keep your mask on... they can't move three meters without an escort anywhere in the village I bet it's not fun Well, whatever it did cause I think she's sincere that she lost whatever she needed to have to do these flips Yeah without killing herself and She just bails. Hmm but I think you're and the other people attributed to Kovat and all the other things that made their lives miserable for a year And this is the Olympics was supposed to be last year anyway, and I think combined with what you just said
03:26 And the slavery issue, and she's black I might add. Which is not a small issue when it comes to these Olympics you're completely owned Yeah that's not good so uh she's dead thats...you know? I mean i've known some Olympic athletes in the Netherlands and I've met them in context with the Dutch chapter of the IOC Oh! So in public they get all this fawning and its beautiful and lets have a great lunch But after that, you know they'll be quick to tell you like man this is crap. I'm being lived Yeah, yeah, I'm reminded of TED talks Okay, Ted talks are the same way Oh You remember that guy who who ratted on the TED Talks he wrote a did he write a whole blog about it? I can't remember what he did but he was bitching and moaning about and I believe it's all true He was a Ted fellow which is basically your in a cult
