Reflections on Judging and Sportsmanship: A Controversial Journey to Olympic Victory

And you know what else I was thinking?
Even when, um,
you won the bronze, and that was all through,
like, the challenge of having to review.
But sometimes you do have to question things and go hard for yourself.
Yeah. And you can be right.
Uh huh. You know.
So how often does that happen?
Cause I saw there was like some controversy over that.
Yeah, and people act like it was some type of unique situation.
Yeah, but it is something that really does happen.
Yes, it happens a lot.
I mean, it just depends on what,
you know, the judges really look at.
I had a certain. It’s really the difficulty
and what my floor routine was supposed to be
or wasn’t supposed to be. Um,
again, it does come down,
all down to the judges. I didn’t do anything wrong,
my coaches didn’t do anything wrong.
So the biggest thing
I think a lot of people are just taking away from is like,
well, she changed the score.
And it’s like, I can’t control that.
I can’t control something that they did.
It’s a rule. It’s a rule.
It’s literally in the handbook.
Go look at the handbook. At this rate,
like, half of y’all don’t even do our sports.
So what are you like,
what are you complaining about?
Like, people that don’t follow the sport?
No, it’s just,
they only follow it. That’s what gets on my nerves.
They only follow our sport when They come
and it’s the Olympic part of thing do.
You don’t see anything before that.
You don’t even tune into
half of the things we may post on social media.
It’s only during the Olympic game.
So with those people, all they see is, oh,
she did this on the other.
And it’s like, well,
you only saw the two days that we competed, right?
And you’re already complaining about something.
But when I think of that, I’m like, okay,
it’s obvious. I always say
when it comes to people who have these hate comments or something
and say they have something within themselves that they can’t.
That’s a fact. Control
or they see they don’t. Like
this is my twin, cause I say that too.
Like, it’s obviously a reflection on yourself.
Yeah, that’s a reflection on yourself
that you’re looking at yourself in the mirror and you’re.
You’re annoyed with something that’s in yourself,
so you’re gonna go on social media and go attack somebody else. What’s.
What is. What is that?
And that’s when you just be like,
I got it. Like,
that’s why I’m like, okay, yeah,
you guys are. Say what you want to say.
And you know, it only sparks me more.
It feels me. I will go and show you even more.
I’ll go and give you more entertainment at that rate.