'There is joy in the awe': williamfleitch writes on the fun of watching Olympic sports you know nothing about
It was hard to believe someone did better than this on the balance beam. Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images When I watched Simone Biles perform her balance-beam routine on Tuesday morning, in her first event since withdrawing from the team competition last week, I cheered as if she had just won the gold medal. Because as far as I was concerned, she had. What she did sure seemed amazing to me, even independent of the context of this Olympics for her.
She added in the next tweet, “same routine she’s done all year, just a different dismount.” That is a level of expertise that is required and deeply appreciated from a professional sportswriter who knows their stuff. It is also something that almost no one watching at home, least of all me, could possibly decipher. Which, I’d argue, is what makes the Olympics so purely enjoyable.
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