Simone Biles wins gold in All-Around for Team U.S.A.!
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00:00Courtney, good morning.
00:01Hello.
00:02Good morning, everybody.
00:03And good morning to the good boys and girls that are here in attendance.
00:04I've seen two dogs come in that are very well behaved.
00:08You should have brought Harry.
00:09Well, I would have loved to bring Harry.
00:11Alan actually brought me this toy, this Harry Potter toy for my good boy, Harry.
00:16But if you ever, sir, over there with the wiener dog, if you need anybody to hold throughout
00:20the day, I'm here willing and able.
00:22Sir, Courtney would like to hold your wiener.
00:25Don't play up.
00:27You're welcome.
00:29There are certain points where you're just on the right side of history.
00:34And yesterday I felt like I was, because a year ago or two years ago now, three years
00:38ago now, Simone Biles was in the news for all the wrong reasons.
00:43People were calling her a quitter on her Olympic team, saying that the mental health aspect
00:47wasn't a big deal and she needed to just power through and look at the athletes who do it
00:52every single day.
00:53And I was firm on my stance that the twisties are completely different than any other mental
00:58health obstacle that you could face when you are an athlete.
01:02Her life was on the line.
01:03If you have the twisties and you're a gymnast, you could fall, you could break your neck.
01:06She has no idea.
01:07So her awareness is, is, is gone out the window when she's flipping through the air, her mind
01:12and body are at a disconnect.
01:15I, after watching her win gold yesterday, then decided to watch her documentary called
01:19Simone Biles rising on Netflix.
01:22If you have not watched this and still feel a certain type of way about Simone Biles,
01:26take the time to watch and listen to all these other professionals, whether they're
01:31psychologists, doctors, coaches who all are on her side saying that the fact that on the
01:37biggest stage she'll ever be on, she decided to take herself out of it because she had
01:42to put her health and safety first.
01:44Anybody who criticized Simone Biles back in 2020, 2021, the Tokyo Olympics needs to watch
01:52that and given a policy.
01:54There were so many newscasts that they had in this documentary that were just calling
01:58her a quitter.
01:59She's not a real athlete.
02:00Suck it up.
02:01Yes.
02:02Suck it up.
02:03The fact that she quit on her teammates or this whole and, and, and to hear her speak
02:07about it, the fact that she opened up during her vault and that's when she knew something
02:11was, was seriously wrong.
02:14And the first thought was that she let her country down and she didn't want to open up
02:18Twitter to see what all the people were saying.