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Gentle reminder if “Simone Biles” is your strategy for winning a team gold medal at the Olympics-you should lose your job.

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Gentle reminder if “Simone Biles” is your strategy for winning a team gold medal at the Olympics-you should lose your job.

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He had to stop talking about VHS tapes bc no one has them anymore 😂😂

Tim loves nothing more than to tell people to stand on their cellphones.

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ELLIE BLACK REBLOG IF YOU AGREE

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simones double pike dismount is so good dare I say gelya level good

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Omg aww Jordan crying tears of joy at Simone beam in the audience ❤

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no one supports you like an internet friend you never met

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Nastia make it seem LESS scripted next time

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Simone Biles: Rio 2016 ➡️ Tokyo 2020

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Wait why do people hate Andrea Joyce?

i cant speak for anybody else but i dont like her because basically her whole job is to do stupid little vignettes of athletes and interview them on the floor immediately after they compete. theres no journalistic value to anything she’s doing, its just to ~flesh out~ the ~characters~ for the viewers, ostensibly the viewers who otherwise aren’t very invested in the competition and/or don’t know much about the sport itself (the locals or the normies, as we i would say).

its not just gymnastics either, she works for nbc so she does a bunch of other sports. similar to how al trautwig would commentate other sports besides gymnastics for nbc broadcasts except for the other sports he actually bothered to be knowledgeable and have something valuable to say other than what he did for gymnastics which was being intentionally obtuse so that tim and elfi/nastia could correct him in an attempt to teach the audience something about the sport they’re watching

and in some ways i feel bad for her bc thats like her “role” on the broadcasts and idk if she’s purposefully being annoying or if that’s nbc sports producers pushing her to do those featurettes and ask those questions. but yeah they trot her out to do asinine little micro-reports on every major mainstream broadcast (nationals in the olympic year or the year before the olympics, olympic trials, and of course the actual olympic games) or tell an anecdotal story about a gymnast while they’re warming up between rotations to fill the time. a great example of this is the ragan smith bead story in 2016 lmaoooo. she did somehting else with bailie key’s stickers in 2015 (but i put a lot of the blame for that on kim zmeskal (the coach of both girls) bc shes the one who 1) did something that childish with her teenage gymnasts in the first place and 2) told the press about it) i posted something about that i’ll find it and reblog it if i can lol

where i have a major problem with her, objectively, is when she doesnt give the athletes space to decompress after they compete (again this could very well be the fault of the producers but i think at this point shes been doing it for over a decade now and she probably has the social capital with nbc to tell them no and/or refuse to do it…). for example she (they) MADE jordyn wieber talk to her for a minute or two ON CAMERA after QF in london when she was still ACTIVELY SOBBING because she got bumped from the AA final. she was the reigning world AA champion from 2011 and was being hyped by nbc throughout the pre-olympic season as THE usa gymnastics it-girl, all for her lifelong dream to come crashing down on the first day she competed :/ its obviously cruel to do that to a 17 year old girl whose dreams unceremoniously ended just minutes prior BUT ITS JUICY TELEVISION AND A GREAT STORY LINE SO LEMME SHOVE A MICROPHONE RIGHT IN YOUR FACE :) BECAUSE RATINGS :)

and like i said, she doesnt just do gymnastics (which imho makes it worse because when you know that, its obvious that she isn’t hired to do this job because she knows the sport. although lowkey that’s obvious based on the fluff questions she asks the athletes, it’s got nothing to do with the sport it’s just to build a kind of familiarity or affection with the athletes than nbc is pushing as the headlining stars of the olympics). she does figure skating too and the interviews/reporting she does there are just as empty and trivial as what she does for gymnastics. although the interviews she did with adam rippon are fucking hilarious (mostly because she has no idea how to react) and i highly recommend

she also did swimming stuff in 2012 iirc (she probably does several sports but i only really watch gymnastics and figure skating) and she would be asking swimmers questions WHILE THEY WERE STILL SOAKING WET AND OUT OF BREATH. LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER THEY FINISHED THE RACE. LIKE 30 SECONDS AFTER THEY CLIMBED OUT OF THE POOL.

tl;dr :

she just kind of embodies everything wrong with nbc’s coverage of the olympics and treatment of the athletes whose combined decades of hard labor make the media feeding frenzy every 4 years (every 2 years if we’re counting the winter games too) possible. its dehumanizing and reductive and serves no meaningful purpose to anybody’s appreciation or enjoyment of the sports they’re watching. its a totally superfluous job and nobody would miss it or even notice it was gone if it were eliminated overnight

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really good interview with jade

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Girl I didn’t know how to do my eyebrows until I was in my 20s it was ROUGH

i know i make fun of millennials a lot but god you millennial ladies were SO brave for making it through the early 00s as teenagers

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Mykayla put voodoo on Simone so she could get into the vault final

The Olympics are finally over. No gymnastics until Worlds.

Now it’s time for the real reason this fandom exists: GOSSIP, LIBEL and DRAMA. 

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The Olympics are finally over. No gymnastics until Worlds.

Now it’s time for the real reason this fandom exists: GOSSIP, LIBEL and DRAMA.