Bold Takes Gold

Insane finds Paris, and while the water is murky, WE shook 'The Twisties'!

The rings are back and once again the heavyweights land on a 4'8" 104 frame, pictured for greatness.

Fear finds athletes in nearly every moment of competition. And competition finds nothing like the Olympics. When the ominous chorus rings through the arena, competitors channel their breathing, remember their gameplan, and represent for their country and, even more, for themselves.

But Simone Biles experienced a crisis 4 years ago in Tokyo. Embarking on an All-Around medal, her approach came to a halt. In a loosely diagnosed term called 'The Twisties', the world renowned 'GOAT' couldn't find her hoofs. Basically, she got in the air for many of her exercises, had a mental block, and looking down... she lost herself in the air in a dangerous and damaging way. This fear of the floor led to a catastrophic withdrawal from competition. DEVASTATING.

Would fear of flying force her from Gold???

Most of the states was in a state of:

So what did we see out of Biles vile?

2016:

• All Around 🥇 Team

• All Around 🥇 Individual

• Vault 🥇

• Beam 🥉- grabbed it 🤦‍♀️

• Floor 🥇

2020 (2021 FUCK covid):

• Team 🥈

• Beam🥉 thanks to mental and physical fortitude

• Brain Fart 💨

2024:

• 🥇 Team

• 🥇 Individual

• 🥇 Vault

• 🥈 Floor

She took the Eiffel Tower, shoved it down their throats, and THEY were the ones who choked.

This draws to question the idea of pressure.

Dictionary.com :The force per unit area that one region of a gas, liquid, or solid exerts on another. Pressure is usually measured in Pascal units, atmospheres, or pounds per square inch.

Shockingly... urbanddictionary.com does not have an appropriate definition of pressure.

So I will come up with my own: pressure is when the "weight of the world" compresses into your chest, pumps blood, which fills the rest of your body in an effort to perform to succeed.

The fact is, everyone has their own amount of pressure... from how to raise your kids to beer pong at the Frat. It is more how you deal with it. But even more... its how you handle the situation, and how you will deal with it THE NEXT TIME. Few are granted second chances, but given an opportunity it is up to YOU to make the most of them.

As described, The Seine River, which weaves throughout the city, harbors more than gondolas and stone skipping:

"While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn't think about too much," Vermeylen said. "I drank a lot of water, so we'll know tomorrow if I'm sick or not. It doesn't taste like Coca-Cola or Sprite, of course. The Seine has been dirty for a hundred years, so they can't say the safety of the athletes is a priority. That's bulls---," Vermeylen added."

But as we watch athletes tread and dread, the podium is the precipice of 4 years of training, and a lifetime of dreaming.

Who has it worse than this guy?