Did Simone Biles Do Us All a Favor?
Who, especially in the last seventeen months of a soul-crushing pandemic, hasn’t thought of stepping aside or walking away?
Tabby Refael (on Twitter @RefaelTabby) is a Los Angeles based writer, speaker and activist.
Simone Biles of Team United States competes on vault during the Women s Team Final on day four of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 27, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
Twenty-five years ago, while watching the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on television, I got into a fight with my mother.
“That poor girl needs to go to the hospital!” my mother yelled as she watched American gymnast Kerri Strug collapse during a vault jump. We weren’t in Atlanta, but even
feels somehow greater from afar. usa! reporter: whether that s in alaska watching lydia jacoby or hawaii when carissa moore nabbed the first gold in olympic surfing. it also means fresh off the race or the win, athletes are talking to the people they love most much faster than if they had been in the stands. got a few people who want to talk to you. i love you so much. i am so proud you have. love you too. thank you, guys. reporter: a very different summer games, creating a new kind of olympic moment. stephanie gosk, nbc news, tokyo. yeah, new ways to bridge the distce. an still fresh unstopables in-wash scent booster
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18 gold. i think that was really a special moment not just for swimming but the entire olympic community at that moment. i was glad to see him close on his career in such a spectacular fashion and the other obvious one for me was gabby douglas winning gold in all-around. her smile and persona, you couldn t help but watch her and feel absolutely delighted. i kind of wanted to go around the table here. did you have a particular moment? i watched the olympics for different reasons than most people so right now i m wearing my tunisia basketball t-shirt. i ll be self-deported afterward. the tunisia team ended. i want to tell you my favorite olympic moment. let s go back to saturday, august 4, in the early morning hours, it was the middle of the day in london and the kour ages
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