This is insane.
It isn’t Biles’ fault that she is better than anyone else. In most sports when someone is better it causes the competition to work harder.
In gymnastics, though they just rig the scores to make sure Biles competition has a chance.
Part of the reason for that might be a concern for the safety of gymnasts not nearly as skilled as Biles — by assigning a dangerous move a low start value, the federation quietly discourages others from risking it. But there also may be a fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot, or dare not, attempt.
“They’re both too low and they even know it,” Biles said of the rewards for her beam dismount and the double-pike vault. “But they don’t want the field to be too far apart. And that’s just something that’s on them. That’s not on me.
“They had an open-ended code of points and now they’re mad that people are too far ahead and excelling.”
Despite not being properly rewarded, Biles, the defending Olympic champion in the all-around, said she would continue doing them.
When asked why, she quickly answered, “Because I can.”
They didn’t do anything to help Michael Phelps’ competition.
This is racist, to be honest. I wonder if this was a white gymnast what they would have done.
Flip the pages for the videos of her performing the vault.