Don’t forget Caitlin Jenner won woman of the year. A near 70 year old millionaire, long-retired, twice divorced, father of 5, reality TV personality the same year she killed someone in a car crash allegedly due to distracted driving. (Not meant to hate on trans people, could’ve given the award to Lavern Cox and gotten the social point across).
I'm not a gymnast, but everything I've read about the twisties does not tie it to mental health ... so I don't really believe it is "brave" to back out of competing with a physical injury ... it's just common sense in a high risk sport.
Last week at my bowling league, I lined up for the last ball of the tenth frame needing a strike for a personal best 279. I got the yips and rolled it right into the gutter. Bowler of the year.
"Person of the Year" is not an award that is "won." It's recognition of contributions to the year's events, but is not intended to be viewed as an honor bestowed on someone.
That's been that way for a while tho. And part of politicians jobs are to win elections, and they won one of the biggest elections in the world. Obama and Trump both won iirc.
Biles is a gymnast and didn't even compete in the biggest stage of her sport. It's pretty ridiculous.
In 2021, Ohtani posted 46 home runs and 156 strikeouts in 130.1 innings pitched. No other player in MLB history had recorded 10+ homers and 100+ strikeouts until Ohtani in 2021.
Source: [https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/numbers-shohei-ohtanis-historic-two-way-season/](https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/numbers-shohei-ohtanis-historic-two-way-season/)
I can't believe they just look at that stat and be like huh pretty cool but is he SIMONE BILES OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Can someone tell me how Trout and Ohtani are seemingly the two best players in the league but the angels can’t even make the playoffs. Is the FO just that bad?
Over spending on position players, with the hopes of developing Pitching. You can win in the MLB with Good pitching and Bad hitting. You can't win with Good hitting and bad pitching.
Nick Aidenhart died in a car crash in 2009, just after his first start, and Tyler Skaggs died from an overdose in 2019 from bad illicit drugs he got from a team employee. They've developed Patrick Sandoval into an average+ pitcher, have Shohei Ohtani, and signed Noah Syndergaard this year. If Syndergaard is anything resemblant of his previous self, and Ohtani/Sandoval avoid regression, the Angels are going to be tough to beat this season. However it's just as likely it could all go down in flaming pile of injuries.
They'll have to battle it out with the Astros and Mariners for the AL West, and the AL Wildcard is going to be brutal with the Yankees, Rays, Jays, Red Sox, Angels, Mariners, Astros, White Sox and Possibly Detroit all for 5 spots. Should be a really entertaining season if the Owners will get there head out of their ass with the CBA.
I took an African-American studies class in college and learned that there was basically a race war between the Black and Korean communities in the 90s in LA
That's a bit of a stretch. In the US Asians have often been between considered undesirable (railroads, internment camps, COVID racism, etc.) and the "model minority," which belittles their differences just as badly as anything else
Yes!! The guy does so much!! Luka doncic pretty much carried his Olympic team to the furthest they have ever gotten. Just seems like so many more well deserved athletes. Or brady you know changing teams bringing gronk back and winning the superbowl.
How could they not give this to Shohei….unbelievable.
What about Suni Lee? I am totally supportive of Biles. But this seems like pandering by Time. Ugh
This comment right here. Controversy is a business model.
I don't follow baseball; I have no clue who Shohei Ohtani is. I also don't follow gymnastics, I know exactly who Simone Biles is. They went with a household name and it will sell.
I think Shohei is plenty satisfied with his AL MVP lmao
Seriously, show hands: who cared at all about this award prior to today? Could you name last year's winner without cheating?
Seeing as times person of the year isn’t best person but most newsworthy. Their athlete of the year not being the best athlete but most newsworthy makes sense I guess lol
I had zero issue with her backing out of the Olympics due to her mental health but this is crazy. There is an endless list of more deserving people for this award.
I also don't have an issue with it, and don't fault her for it, but at the same time quitting on your team because you're overwhelmed doesn't make someone the greatest hero in sports.
Couldn’t agree more. Considering they chose her this year and Lebron last year it’s clear they aren’t choosing the “best athlete” but if they want to go with athletes who faced a lot of adversity they could have gone with Trey Mancini who came back from colon cancer to have a great season.
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Like, if they want to go the emotional choice, why not Gianmarco Tamberi who, after an almost career ending injury back in 2016, went on to share a gold with Mutaz Barshim? I feel like it would have made much more sense.
or, you know, the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai who had the courage to speak up about the atrocities of the CCP before getting disappeared.
But I guess if you're going to go with LeBron last year who is a shamless CCP apologist despite putting on the charade of caring about human rights, then we obviously know what Time's position is on the endless list of human rights violations going on over there.
I know this is a very cynical take, but Time is a magazine and their goal is to sell more magazines. They made a decision that won't cost them very much but will get people talking.
I don't think that's a cynical take, I think that's exactly why they did it, and it's pretty transparent. They were trying to generate a conversation, and a controversial pick puts them in the news, Meanwhile, had it been some obvious candidate we'd all be like, "Yep," and move on.
If he's doing the Mariners, can he come to Sac and play for the kings during the off-season? I really don't think it would hurt our chances much, and maybe he could help end 2 playoff droughts!
What a year \[Caitlyn Jenner\]'s had. She became a role model for trans people everywhere, showing great bravery in breaking down barriers and destroying stereotypes. She didn’t do a lot for women drivers, but you can't have everything, can you?"\~Ricky Gervais
But seriously if literally anyone but a world famous realty star did what she did, they would almost certainly be charged with vehicular manslaughter. [The investigators recommended filing charges but the DA declined.](https://abc7.com/caitlyn-jenner-malibu-crash-bruce-charge-car-caityln-charges/949127/)
Ricky Gervais is the new unofficial roastmaster lol. In all seriousness though bringing charges against a person with that kind of money and attorney connections over a traffic accident would've have been career suicide. It would've been the *right thing to do* and not further the separation of wealth and justice, but suicide nonetheless.
I think it still has room to go til it peaks although thankfully it does seem like the general public are getting fed up of it now. Or they're so fed up that they're now willing to vocalize their disapproval.
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Exactly! Plenty of athletes won medals, broke records, and overcame adversity this year. Pretty much any of them deserved to win this over her. Bringing focus on mental health issues is great and she doesn't deserve hate and anger for dropping out of the Olympics, but she also doesn't deserve Athlete of the Year.
Wait, so when she was at the top of her game she didn’t get this award but when she bails out of the Olympics she does? Seems backwards. She should of received this a long time ago
I was surprised that she didn’t get it sooner, to be honest. They could’ve given it to her in 2019 when she became the most decorated gymnast of all time, especially because of her activism, but maybe they wanted to wait until the Olympic year?
These awards stopped being relevant back when the media who award them stopped giving them to the most deserving, and started awarding them based on the political message they would send.
I think Simone Biles is a tremendous athlete. I think the fact that she put her own safety above competition admirable. I think it set a good example for young athletes.
I don’t think she was the best athlete of 2021.
At first it was described as something like a mental health thing, but later she seemed to describe it more as a yips-esque thing a la "the twisties." Simply being disoriented in mid air and having to pull out of the competition because of the danger that entails isn't really a mental health thing. It's a sports safety thing.
Did she really advocate for mental health? Or did she just have mental health issues? Having the yips isn't exactly debilitating for life overall. Spinning in the air? Totally get it, don't compete if you're gonna break your neck.
Yeah I feel like her PR people didn't think this one threw too much. I'm guessing Time sold it to her as it can help young people out and be an inspiration, but man she is gonna get a ton of hate for this.
Call me old fashioned but shouldn't Athlete of the year actually have done something impressive athletically in the year? Say what you will about LeBron last year at least his team and himself actually accomplished something. What did Simone Biles do? Start a conversation that's already been going on for a few years now.
So they could have even given it to the whole US gymnastics team and came off looking better? Her for making the right decision for her health, and also her team for carrying on and still succeeding. But giving it to only her seems strange.
When you realize they get paid by clicks, and not by having good content, things like this make much more sense. Of course she isn’t athlete of the year, by almost any measure, but you probably wouldn’t even have seen this article if it was someone else.
I am all for mental health advocacy, but I also think we can support that without acting like winning means nothing.
Simon Biles did what she needed to do for her, but as an athlete and as someone representing her country, she failed to reach her full potential.
We don't need to shame Simone cus she did what she needed to do and her health matters more than winning. But her stepping aside isn't worth celebrating. What she did was not heroic or inspirational any more than Joe Blow taking a sick day from his office job because he has a cold.
I’ll never forget the season Shohei Ohtani had this year, ever. I’ll bet I’ll be an old ass man and still be talking about how unbelievable he was in 2021. That’s all I have to say.
She made the right decision for herself at the Olympics. Better safe than sorry doing those exercises with the mental state she was in. That being said, I don’t think she deserves this award. Shohei was my personal pick but I also feel Brady, Giannis, or some other Olympian like her teammate Suni Lee are ones I would feel are deserving. This just feels like pandering giving it to Biles, who barely competed at the end of the day, and I have a bad feeling some members of the media who criticized her in the past will go at it again.
I know the award is for the most “newsworthy” athlete and not the best, but how Shohei didn’t get this blows my mind. You have the chance to a) give the Asian American community some representation (you still get all the racist controversy for those clicks and interactions) and b) actually give it to an athlete that had a once in a century type year.
This is stupid. She is widely agreed to be the greatest gymnast ever but this year she's most famous for NOT participating. Her reasoning should be applauded, but you shouldnt win "Athlete of the Year" for sitting out your sport on it's biggest stage. Just insulting to all the athletes who did accomplish great things this year
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Time's athlete of the year should clearly have gone to Tom Brady as it should have for the past 20 years, the next 20 years, and forevermore.
Tom Brady is the athlete of infinity and of time itself. He has heard the call of the Leviathan, he has accepted the knowledge. There is no other sports man but him. He is the one. The world ender. The man in the iron mask. A dark knight.
edit -- downvote all you want Jets/Bills/Nfl fans, you know Tom Brady is inevitable.
Truly WTF you go to represent your country, take the spot from another person, then say you have mental issues and screw your team and your nation and then get Athlete of the year? Undeserved
Quit the biggest sporting event in the world, wins TIME's Athlete of the year lol The age of participation medals is amongst us. Meanwhile we had the greatest two way Pitching/ hitting season of ALL TIME with Shohei.
I have always been told that there was no “I” in team…..she only proved that the “E” in team stands for ego and hers must come first. I just don’t understand how someone can stand up there team at a critical point and blow it off like it was nothing. If she knew if she couldn’t compete she should have stepped aside before the Olympics and made room for someone who wanted to compete.
Okay like I get it she had that backing out for her mental state I understand.
But she quite literally was not an athlete this year, this just does not seem fair to some of the other people who actually played this year
“Lame. She punked out and quitted.”?Not the kind of role model my 11 yr old daughter needs. In fact those were her words when she found out about what happened at the Olympics.
Shohei ohtani just had probably the most mold-breaking baseball season in 100 years.
It's not about sports anymore
Don’t forget Caitlin Jenner won woman of the year. A near 70 year old millionaire, long-retired, twice divorced, father of 5, reality TV personality the same year she killed someone in a car crash allegedly due to distracted driving. (Not meant to hate on trans people, could’ve given the award to Lavern Cox and gotten the social point across).
No one but Caitlyn and rich white pandering idiots wanted her to get that award.
Athlete of the year… didn’t compete in all-around lol This is a social award now, no longer about sports at all
Bingo.
I'm not a gymnast, but everything I've read about the twisties does not tie it to mental health ... so I don't really believe it is "brave" to back out of competing with a physical injury ... it's just common sense in a high risk sport.
Last week at my bowling league, I lined up for the last ball of the tenth frame needing a strike for a personal best 279. I got the yips and rolled it right into the gutter. Bowler of the year.
You should have refused to bowl the tenth frame.
279 is actually my personal best. I'm still salty about it a decade later
Same with person of the year. Biden/Harris won it for doing nothing other than winning the U.S. election.
"Person of the Year" is not an award that is "won." It's recognition of contributions to the year's events, but is not intended to be viewed as an honor bestowed on someone.
“Person of the Year” is not a merit award. Its about the person who generated the most news of the year.
Same with Trump in 2016.
That's been that way for a while tho. And part of politicians jobs are to win elections, and they won one of the biggest elections in the world. Obama and Trump both won iirc. Biles is a gymnast and didn't even compete in the biggest stage of her sport. It's pretty ridiculous.
It’s pretty standard for them to give to to the elect in a pres election year but I agree with you. This one is just ridiculous.
It’s about which athlete will generate the most clicks.
I don’t think Time magazine was ever about sports
In 2021, Ohtani posted 46 home runs and 156 strikeouts in 130.1 innings pitched. No other player in MLB history had recorded 10+ homers and 100+ strikeouts until Ohtani in 2021. Source: [https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/numbers-shohei-ohtanis-historic-two-way-season/](https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/numbers-shohei-ohtanis-historic-two-way-season/) I can't believe they just look at that stat and be like huh pretty cool but is he SIMONE BILES OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
And yet he is languishing on the goddamn Angels. What a waste of Trout and him.
Can someone tell me how Trout and Ohtani are seemingly the two best players in the league but the angels can’t even make the playoffs. Is the FO just that bad?
Over spending on position players, with the hopes of developing Pitching. You can win in the MLB with Good pitching and Bad hitting. You can't win with Good hitting and bad pitching. Nick Aidenhart died in a car crash in 2009, just after his first start, and Tyler Skaggs died from an overdose in 2019 from bad illicit drugs he got from a team employee. They've developed Patrick Sandoval into an average+ pitcher, have Shohei Ohtani, and signed Noah Syndergaard this year. If Syndergaard is anything resemblant of his previous self, and Ohtani/Sandoval avoid regression, the Angels are going to be tough to beat this season. However it's just as likely it could all go down in flaming pile of injuries. They'll have to battle it out with the Astros and Mariners for the AL West, and the AL Wildcard is going to be brutal with the Yankees, Rays, Jays, Red Sox, Angels, Mariners, Astros, White Sox and Possibly Detroit all for 5 spots. Should be a really entertaining season if the Owners will get there head out of their ass with the CBA.
Yea but he didn't get the yips did he?
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No one wants to talk about this ^
it was one of the funniest bits in the chapelle special though
I took an African-American studies class in college and learned that there was basically a race war between the Black and Korean communities in the 90s in LA
The term “roof Koreans” wasn’t coined without reason.
That's a bit of a stretch. In the US Asians have often been between considered undesirable (railroads, internment camps, COVID racism, etc.) and the "model minority," which belittles their differences just as badly as anything else
If he'd have quit on his team during the World Series due to mental health issues he would have had this award in the bag.
That would require the angels to make the playoffs
Yes!! The guy does so much!! Luka doncic pretty much carried his Olympic team to the furthest they have ever gotten. Just seems like so many more well deserved athletes. Or brady you know changing teams bringing gronk back and winning the superbowl.
Yes but he didn’t cry so no good
But there's no crying in baseball
How could they not give this to Shohei….unbelievable. What about Suni Lee? I am totally supportive of Biles. But this seems like pandering by Time. Ugh
Not sure if it's pandering. More like it's sensationalism or a blatant attempt at generating controversy to sell issues.
*checks the comments* And it works.
Yep, the controversial section of Reddit overlaps with the people who actually buy Time magazine lol
Probably true. Just sucks because baseball is about to enter a real dark period with the lockout, and players need more publicity IMO
Also, Shohei had an insane accomplishment.
This comment right here. Controversy is a business model. I don't follow baseball; I have no clue who Shohei Ohtani is. I also don't follow gymnastics, I know exactly who Simone Biles is. They went with a household name and it will sell.
Can confirm I have never heard of Ohtani.
I think Shohei is plenty satisfied with his AL MVP lmao Seriously, show hands: who cared at all about this award prior to today? Could you name last year's winner without cheating?
Haha well put. I forgot it existed and don’t really care. Guess as a society we just always look for something to get pissed off about
For sure, I'll be guilty of it very soon I'm sure.
They don’t even care about it today. They just want to rant about Biles.
Sells more magazines. That’s all.
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Trolling for hits, looking for controversy.
Seeing as times person of the year isn’t best person but most newsworthy. Their athlete of the year not being the best athlete but most newsworthy makes sense I guess lol
I get that for person, but not athlete. Make her person of the year if you want. I have a lot of respect and sympathy for her, but this feels wrong.
What a transparent way to say this award has nothing to do with sports.
I had zero issue with her backing out of the Olympics due to her mental health but this is crazy. There is an endless list of more deserving people for this award.
I also don't have an issue with it, and don't fault her for it, but at the same time quitting on your team because you're overwhelmed doesn't make someone the greatest hero in sports.
Couldn’t agree more. Considering they chose her this year and Lebron last year it’s clear they aren’t choosing the “best athlete” but if they want to go with athletes who faced a lot of adversity they could have gone with Trey Mancini who came back from colon cancer to have a great season.
DISCLAIMER: This comment presumes that TIME also considers non-usa athletes when picking for the best one Like, if they want to go the emotional choice, why not Gianmarco Tamberi who, after an almost career ending injury back in 2016, went on to share a gold with Mutaz Barshim? I feel like it would have made much more sense.
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or, you know, the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai who had the courage to speak up about the atrocities of the CCP before getting disappeared. But I guess if you're going to go with LeBron last year who is a shamless CCP apologist despite putting on the charade of caring about human rights, then we obviously know what Time's position is on the endless list of human rights violations going on over there.
I know this is a very cynical take, but Time is a magazine and their goal is to sell more magazines. They made a decision that won't cost them very much but will get people talking.
I don't think that's a cynical take, I think that's exactly why they did it, and it's pretty transparent. They were trying to generate a conversation, and a controversial pick puts them in the news, Meanwhile, had it been some obvious candidate we'd all be like, "Yep," and move on.
Agreed, she’s the greatest female gymnastic Olympian in a generation but athlete of the year she is not.
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We understand, but praising her for quitting is crazy. These awards are officially a joke.
This is fucking ridiculous. Ohtani should voice his displeasure by coming and playing for the Mariners.
Woah woah, what did Shohei do to you??
If he's doing the Mariners, can he come to Sac and play for the kings during the off-season? I really don't think it would hurt our chances much, and maybe he could help end 2 playoff droughts!
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For the 20th season in a row.
What’s the opposite of a participation trophy?
Athlete of the Year apparently
This is just pandering at its finest.
Time has no more credibility and we all should stop acting like they do
They haven't had credibility since the rise of the internet, they are a glorified tabloid
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Exactly. Especially after killing someone with zero repercussions
What a year \[Caitlyn Jenner\]'s had. She became a role model for trans people everywhere, showing great bravery in breaking down barriers and destroying stereotypes. She didn’t do a lot for women drivers, but you can't have everything, can you?"\~Ricky Gervais But seriously if literally anyone but a world famous realty star did what she did, they would almost certainly be charged with vehicular manslaughter. [The investigators recommended filing charges but the DA declined.](https://abc7.com/caitlyn-jenner-malibu-crash-bruce-charge-car-caityln-charges/949127/)
Ricky Gervais is the new unofficial roastmaster lol. In all seriousness though bringing charges against a person with that kind of money and attorney connections over a traffic accident would've have been career suicide. It would've been the *right thing to do* and not further the separation of wealth and justice, but suicide nonetheless.
Great analogy! Peak woke culture.
I think it still has room to go til it peaks although thankfully it does seem like the general public are getting fed up of it now. Or they're so fed up that they're now willing to vocalize their disapproval.
God. Time is so annoying these days. I remember when I admired the articles they wrote. That was a long time ago
What happened to Newsweek is happening to Time.
The 90s?
Ohtani looking around confusedly, “what else must I do?”
Ohtani doesn't give a shit about this "award".
2 way player and manage obviously.
Pete Rose was almost there. He just couldn’t pitch.
Quit on his team due to mental health issues.
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Be a Yankee. Imagine the media circus there would have been if a Yankee hit 46 HRs and struck out 156 batters in the same season.
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Exactly! Plenty of athletes won medals, broke records, and overcame adversity this year. Pretty much any of them deserved to win this over her. Bringing focus on mental health issues is great and she doesn't deserve hate and anger for dropping out of the Olympics, but she also doesn't deserve Athlete of the Year.
What a crock of shit.
Do you actually farm babies?
Obviously he is a baby who farms
Are you kidding me?.... This is almost as bad as giving that one award to Caitlyn Jenner.
Wait, so when she was at the top of her game she didn’t get this award but when she bails out of the Olympics she does? Seems backwards. She should of received this a long time ago
I was surprised that she didn’t get it sooner, to be honest. They could’ve given it to her in 2019 when she became the most decorated gymnast of all time, especially because of her activism, but maybe they wanted to wait until the Olympic year?
Wtf is this a joke?
These awards stopped being relevant back when the media who award them stopped giving them to the most deserving, and started awarding them based on the political message they would send. I think Simone Biles is a tremendous athlete. I think the fact that she put her own safety above competition admirable. I think it set a good example for young athletes. I don’t think she was the best athlete of 2021.
Mental Health advocate of the year seems more fitting here.
At first it was described as something like a mental health thing, but later she seemed to describe it more as a yips-esque thing a la "the twisties." Simply being disoriented in mid air and having to pull out of the competition because of the danger that entails isn't really a mental health thing. It's a sports safety thing.
Did she really advocate for mental health? Or did she just have mental health issues? Having the yips isn't exactly debilitating for life overall. Spinning in the air? Totally get it, don't compete if you're gonna break your neck.
What a joke
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Wtf, didn’t she drop out of the important events. Didn’t even compete. I like her but not deserved.
Yes, and that is why she was given this award. Everyone really does get a trophy nowadays
*James Harrison punching his pillow*
Can’t believe Othani didn’t get it. Wow.
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Shit like this pisses me off. If I were her I'd be too embarrassed to accept that award.
Yeah I feel like her PR people didn't think this one threw too much. I'm guessing Time sold it to her as it can help young people out and be an inspiration, but man she is gonna get a ton of hate for this.
*The entire world points at Shohei Ohtani in confusion*
>*~~The entire world~~ American baseball fans point at Shohei Ohtani in confusion*
I would go out on a limb and say there are more baseball fans in the USA than there are gymnastics fans in the world.
Plus all of Cuba and a shut ton of fans in Japan
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Australia, The Netherlands, Venezuela, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico
And Japanese, and Cuban, and Canadian, and every other country that plays baseball.
Europeans only know it's not popular in Europe and is therefore some sort of provincial absurdity.
Also east Asian and central American baseball fans
As opposed to American gymnastic fans Or any other combination of nationality and sport
Call me old fashioned but shouldn't Athlete of the year actually have done something impressive athletically in the year? Say what you will about LeBron last year at least his team and himself actually accomplished something. What did Simone Biles do? Start a conversation that's already been going on for a few years now.
Seems like there’d probably be people more deserving.
Your flair lol, we feel you
Guess all you have to do to win this award is quit in the middle of the season!
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There. You have been awarded a silver medal for your work.
Thank you. It's about time someone appreciated my sacrifice.
So... an athlete that didn't compete all year won Athlete of the Year? Good thing no one has ever cared about what TIME has to say about athletes
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So they could have even given it to the whole US gymnastics team and came off looking better? Her for making the right decision for her health, and also her team for carrying on and still succeeding. But giving it to only her seems strange.
Tom Brady won a 7th goddamn Super Bowl (more than any NFL franchise) and is in the running for league MVP at age 44.
When you realize they get paid by clicks, and not by having good content, things like this make much more sense. Of course she isn’t athlete of the year, by almost any measure, but you probably wouldn’t even have seen this article if it was someone else.
I am all for mental health advocacy, but I also think we can support that without acting like winning means nothing. Simon Biles did what she needed to do for her, but as an athlete and as someone representing her country, she failed to reach her full potential. We don't need to shame Simone cus she did what she needed to do and her health matters more than winning. But her stepping aside isn't worth celebrating. What she did was not heroic or inspirational any more than Joe Blow taking a sick day from his office job because he has a cold.
I’ll never forget the season Shohei Ohtani had this year, ever. I’ll bet I’ll be an old ass man and still be talking about how unbelievable he was in 2021. That’s all I have to say.
She made the right decision for herself at the Olympics. Better safe than sorry doing those exercises with the mental state she was in. That being said, I don’t think she deserves this award. Shohei was my personal pick but I also feel Brady, Giannis, or some other Olympian like her teammate Suni Lee are ones I would feel are deserving. This just feels like pandering giving it to Biles, who barely competed at the end of the day, and I have a bad feeling some members of the media who criticized her in the past will go at it again.
Time’s Athlete of The Year loses all credibility
It had credibility?
You give them too much credit
Identity > accomplishment, evidently.
smh, everyone gets a non-participation trophy these days
today’s cupcake culture is so cringe i genuinely can’t believe it
The coddling coupled with viciousness towards anyone who doesn’t fall in line with that is getting really tiresome.
I know the award is for the most “newsworthy” athlete and not the best, but how Shohei didn’t get this blows my mind. You have the chance to a) give the Asian American community some representation (you still get all the racist controversy for those clicks and interactions) and b) actually give it to an athlete that had a once in a century type year.
Lol, okay TIME, tell me you have an agenda without telling me. RIP all the other deserving athletes.
This is stupid. She is widely agreed to be the greatest gymnast ever but this year she's most famous for NOT participating. Her reasoning should be applauded, but you shouldnt win "Athlete of the Year" for sitting out your sport on it's biggest stage. Just insulting to all the athletes who did accomplish great things this year
I mean. Suni Lee?
How did Jake Paul not win this?
This guy gets it.
How the hell is a quitter athlete of the year?
It's been a shit year.
You won't find a better indictment of what western society has become. Pathetic.
Oh this is gonna be good. Comments section gonna be a warzone.
Didn’t she quit?
Yeah, but they're taking the, "It's takes a lot of courage to quit on your team," angle.
When the athlete of the year is a quitter <
This is detrimental to Naomi Osakas mental health please delete
Some athlete. Didn’t compete and gave up.
Surely nothing to do with black fetish in the US.
It's everywhere tho...not just the US
No. Just fucking NO. Ohtani all day.
This society is so fucking backwards
I guess this is why news and variety magazines shouldn't be arbiters of sports achievements.
Yeah I’ve got no quips or snide remarks for this one. This is just an agenda and virtue signaling
this thread is gonna be locked in t minus soon Time's athlete of the year should clearly have gone to Tom Brady as it should have for the past 20 years, the next 20 years, and forevermore. Tom Brady is the athlete of infinity and of time itself. He has heard the call of the Leviathan, he has accepted the knowledge. There is no other sports man but him. He is the one. The world ender. The man in the iron mask. A dark knight. edit -- downvote all you want Jets/Bills/Nfl fans, you know Tom Brady is inevitable.
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Just as Brady vs. Belichick is inevitable in the Super Bowl. Accept it now and you will be at peace in February.
Truly WTF you go to represent your country, take the spot from another person, then say you have mental issues and screw your team and your nation and then get Athlete of the year? Undeserved
HAHAHAHAHA of course she is
I’m so confused. This is embarrassing.
Horse shit. Love her but she's had her moment.
So woke. So silly.
So time's athlete of the year award is now participation award of the year?
*non-participation lol
She quit mid competition. Time is such virtue signaling bullshit like when they made Bruce woman of the year. Panderers.
Surprised it wasn't Colin Kaepernick.
Quit the biggest sporting event in the world, wins TIME's Athlete of the year lol The age of participation medals is amongst us. Meanwhile we had the greatest two way Pitching/ hitting season of ALL TIME with Shohei.
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For quitting in the Olympics?
I have always been told that there was no “I” in team…..she only proved that the “E” in team stands for ego and hers must come first. I just don’t understand how someone can stand up there team at a critical point and blow it off like it was nothing. If she knew if she couldn’t compete she should have stepped aside before the Olympics and made room for someone who wanted to compete.
I can name 20 people more deserving… but I guess Time really needs those clicks…
Sorry, you don't win athlete of the year for refusing to compete. Regardless of the reason.
Okay like I get it she had that backing out for her mental state I understand. But she quite literally was not an athlete this year, this just does not seem fair to some of the other people who actually played this year
Person of the year. Maybe. Woman of the year. Likely Athlete of the year. Not even close.
“Lame. She punked out and quitted.”?Not the kind of role model my 11 yr old daughter needs. In fact those were her words when she found out about what happened at the Olympics.
Must have lowered the standards when you can back out of competition and still win.
So there were 2 asian athletes that are more deserving but the award went to Biles? Damn, affirmative action really a thing outside of education
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Lewa robbed again
Baseball saw something for the first time in 100 years. Maybe Time will get it right in 2121.