#it’s just crazy how usa gym swung on the pendulum of ‘focus on yourself and overwork yourself’ to ‘you need to carry all team budens’

[triple-to-stag]

Not at all the point of her sharing her story, but it’s just so impressive to me that Tom somehow managed to make Simone both feel and preform objectively worse in Tokyo than in rio when she had to deal with goddamn marta karolyi’s presence

#*I hate Marta Karolyi :) #and I’m so grateful that no one is saying “well I guess we need to go back then #it’s just crazy how usa gym swung on the pendulum of ‘focus on yourself and overwork yourself’ to ‘you need to carry all team budens’ #absolutely wild to me