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Originally Posted by Bub13
Or Kevin Saucier, who retired because he feared his sudden loss of control might kill someone one day.
And getting the yips while tumbling through the air is a bit more dangerous than missing free throws. Best comparable is probably racing drivers: if you start thinking about how dangerous it is to do what you're doing, you'd best stop.
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Yeah, this second part is the thing even I didn’t completely realize until after I posted. Simone Biles was practicing a move earlier in the year that only a handful of men, let alone women, have ever done correctly in world competition, and which was even given a lower base value to try and discourage people from doing it. And multiple women have seriously injured themselves training or warming up in competition - there’s a Russian woman trying to come back from a nasty broken leg (exacerbated because the USSR tried to push her back too quickly) to compete in the 1980 Olympics who broke her neck and was paralyzed from the waist down, as well as a Chinese woman who had a bad fall in warmups who was paralyzed from the chest down in the 90s. Do we have to wait for one of these incidents to happen in actual competition and/ or result in a death?