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unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike

lupica and bob ryan i'm bob ryan of the boston globe and esPN i know him i'm mike Mike Lupica, MLB.com, in New York Daily News.

Mitch is in Haiti at his orphanage.

He will be back next week.

Ryan and I will try to soldier through it because we've somehow, but just, Bob, well, I guess

we can handle one sports conversation.

I think we'll try, try but fingers crossed all right

bob let's let's start with the biggest story in sports in the world because the olympics are going

on and it is the story of simone biles who i was watching this morning again there she was in

in uh the stands cheering on her teammates and I have to say in and in no sort of

cynical way I they the coverage is so overwrought sometimes that they have made it sound as if

Bob as if she's Joan of Arc just for sitting in the stands and sitting cheering her teammates out

this is a big complicated, and you start here.

You have to respect her decision.

You have to respect her decision because of the context of mental health and mental health

in sports, and it follows on the heels of Naomi Osaka.

Bob, I've been trying to think of comparable things,

and there's never any exact what about, okay?

But for someone who we were calling the goat to walk away from her sport,

if temporarily at the biggest event in her sport, is quite unique.

It is. I don't recall any such comparable thing. Now, I think this whole topic of mental health, we really, the pioneer, if you will, what is Michael Phelps in terms of superstar, dominating player in a sport, a participant in a sport,

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