>> Perhaps we should just make it easier. That's the usual approach, isn't it?
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>I'm not sure what you mean.
It seems to me we constantly worry about how difficult some people find some aspect of life and then pull everybody else back to that level.
If you have two runners and you want them to be equal, you have to slow the faster runner to the speed of the slower. We seem to increasingly do that in schools, in sports and increasingly in the work place.
Difficult things are difficult things and thus not everyone can do them. If Biles cannot cope, then she cannot cope and should step aside and leave it to someone who can.
As Osaka did in tennis, though there I think she was a little surprised because she was expecting to be a hero.
We shouldn't shame people for not being able to cope or consider them in some way lesser people, but neither should we pretend that they can.
Perhaps there should be a second level of competition for those who can't cope with the big stuff. But nobody will have the slightest interest in it. Including the competitors.
Of course, if there is child abuse, drug abuse or similar, then that should be and can be controlled using existing legislation.
But if Biles is truly saying that the fight to be the best in the word is emotionally stressful and more than she can cope with, well dur - so don't try.
I'm not sure WTF employment law has got to do with it.
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