#and I also sincerely do not understand how someone can Not Care about simone biles

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Okay, I have to talk about this or I’m going to explode.

This is a score sheet from the US Women’s Gymnastics National Team Camp that was released yesterday (7/14/23).

Do you? see? What I? SEE?!?!

She’s BACK SHE’S FUCKING BACK.

When Simone Biles withdrew from the Tokyo olympics I was so fucking proud of her. But I also cried. Because I love watching Simone Biles, and I honestly thought I’d seen her compete for the last time.

When she announced she was going to compete at 2023 Worlds, I was very excited, but working hard to temper my own expectations. I told myself I’d be happy if she medalled at all in any event.

Because Simone Biles is twenty-six, which in elite gymnast years is NINETY-FUCKING-FIVE. The top five other gymnasts on this list are all younger than 18. And not only is it essentially impossible for an olympic-tier gymnast to come back from a break, but also, Simone has ALREADY come back from a break no one said she could come back from, when she took a year off after the 2016 olympics. It’s very rare for one gymnast’s career to be long enough to compete at TWO olympics. If SB is still competing a year from now, she will make it to three.

So. Now that you understand the odds stacked against her, go back and look at that score sheet.

Because you fucking best believe I WEPT today. Look at those numbers!!! That score would win gold at any Worlds Individual All-Around since 2015, except in 2019 when she would have lost only to herself.

If Simone Biles wins the AA gold at worlds in September, she will be the oldest gymnast to do so since 1950.

SO, In Summary: do not ever act like you know where Simone Biles’ limits are. You will only make yourself look stupid.