Hot Take: Gymnastics Olympics 2024 and Simone Biles

Name: Hot Take: Gymnastics Olympics 2024 and Simone Biles
Uploaded: 2024-08-20T13:00:47+00:00
Duration: 14 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this short excerpt from Sam Parr's YouTube video, the hosts discuss their discomfort with gymnastics, especially as exemplified by Simone Biles'…

20 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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In this short excerpt from Sam Parr's YouTube video, the hosts discuss their discomfort with gymnastics, especially as exemplified by Simone Biles' dominance. Speaker A describes gymnastics as uncanny and joyless, likening it to an AI-generated performance that feels inhuman. Sam Parr criticizes the sport's reliance on subjective judging criteria such as appearance and smile, calling it unfair. They also note the opacity of difficulty scoring—viewers cannot discern who performed better because the routines all appear superhuman. The conversation contrasts gymnastics with objectively decided sports like races, arguing that gymnastics is harder to watch because outcomes are not immediately clear.

Simone Biles and in general gymnastics. There's something about gymnastics that just creeps me out, dude. There's something strange and joyless, and she is so dominant. There's something uncanny about it. It's like watching an AI video where you're like, this looks beautiful, but there's something inhuman about what I'm watching here, dude.
Isn't it weird that you're judged in a sport on like your appearance and your smile? Like, I think that's weird. I also dislike sports that are mostly judged. It always makes me mad.
Also can't tell the level of difficulty. They all look absolutely incredible, and it's like, well, no, this one was clearly 4 tenths of a point worse than that one. And so it is kind of an unwatchable sport also because everything that all the athletes are doing looks superhuman to me. Whereas a race, it's like, that person ran and won. I could tell who won and lost. In gymnastics, I really can't tell who wins and loses at all.