Time names Simone Biles the "Non-Participating Athlete of the Year Award" for 2021

Time magazine announced Thursday that Simone Biles is being given the "Non-Participating Athlete of the Year" award for 2021. This award is only given to those who, in the past, have shown excellence in disappointing the American public for dropping out of competition and "putting themselves first, ahead of country" for personal reasons.

Winners never quit and Time magazine winners never participate in anything difficult. And because they cannot win if they are not competing, Time is not going to allow that little factoid stand in the way of their winning.

Biles disappointed the American Olympic Gymnastics Team by dropping out of competition at the summer Olympic Games. She said that she wasn't sufficiently focused mentally on her routine and could have hurt herself had she competed in her mentally frail condition. That's sad and it definitely allows her to be put into a victim's status, which is praised by devout leftists.

Time explained that those old-fashioned views about athletes achieving excellence in their sports had nothing to do with its decision to award Biles the non-participation award. Their philosophy is, if we can award kids with a participation trophy, why not award grownups with a non-participation trophy?

Alice Park and Sean Gregory of Time wrote:

“An athlete’s clout is increasingly measured in much more than wins and losses. If 2020 showcased the power of athletes as activists after the murder of George Floyd, this year demonstrated how athletes are uniquely positioned to propel mental health to the forefront of a broader cultural conversation.” 

So now I understand why Biles got the award. She's an activist and George Floyd was a thug.  

“Not only did I get to use my voice, but it was validated as well,” Biles told the leftist rag.

Athletics used to be about, you know, athletics. People competed in an athletic competition and the better athlete won the event. Now it isn't about winning events--it's about your politics. And the public bought into that nonsense. It's like awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a president who had been in office only a few months, never did anything to foster peace anywhere, but was in the correct political party to get the now meaningless award. The person whose name I'm thinking about rhymes with 'bedrock pajama.'

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Before she quit, Biles said that quitting was the last thing she would ever do, but it seems as if she's still doing stuff.

“If I were going to quit, I had other opportunities to quit,” she said. “There is so much I’ve gone through in this sport, and I should have quit over all that — not at the Olympics. It makes no sense.”

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So in the spirit of the "Non-Participating Athlete of the Year Award" of 2021, there can be no better candidate than Simone Biles. She is the one former athlete who can make her quitting an issue about racism and body image, rather than, you know, quitting on the team.

When Biles speaks, people compete anyway.

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