I mean, is there a word for what just happened with the U.S. gymnastics team in Tokyo?

Implosion.

Rebecca Schumann writes about gymnastics for Slate.

Your tweets from the last 24 hours have been like this real-time look inside your brain.

They're a ride.

They were a ride.

Yeah.

At one point, you just tweeted, oh, my God, oh, my God, this is over.

It's over.

It was.

For the last few days, Rebecca's been getting up at 3.30 in the morning, flipping on a couple of different streaming services and watching the Olympic Games live.

For a gymnastics enthusiast, this has been a little harrowing. She watched the women's team flubbed their qualifying events, even though they

managed to stay in the competition. And then yesterday, in the team finals, where Simone Biles was

expected to help bring home the gold, Rebecca held her breath as the star gymnast seemed to psych herself

out on live television. The vault was where thingsast seemed to psych herself out on live television.

The vault was where things really seemed to go south.

No female gymnast in history has ever taken this event on like Simone Biles.

She gets ready for this vault, and I'm sitting here in the pitch dark in my bedroom,

you know, watching TV alone, and I'm just like, come on, you got this. You got this. It doesn't matter what vault she does. It's a showstopper and it's must-see TV. I'm a journalist, but I also care about this person that I've been following so closely for the last five or six years. You know, I wanted her to feel better and do well.

And so when the vault went wrong, I just, I could, yeah, I couldn't even believe it.

Wow.

Very uncharacteristic vault for Simone, but it looked like she got almost lost in the air.

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