“I ain’t no little weak gymnast that quits when the going gets tough. My generation’s cut from a different cloth.”

– Mark Robinson, 2021

Has Robinson been watching the Olympics or is he still filming commercials trying to portray himself as someone who totally contradicts the very words and actions that have defined his character since he entered the public eye?

Because that “weak little gymnast” just did this…

“Biles leaves Paris with 11 Olympic medals, four of them earned at these Games. For some, she needed these medals, because they are the means by which they will weigh her legacy. Others will base their measure of her greatness on immeasurables such as the impact she will leave on her sport, inside the competition arena and beyond. Everyone has their own calculation for quantifying the greatest of all time.

But after these Olympics, this year, this shortened quadrennium, there is no debate. No matter the metric, Biles is the greatest gymnast of all time.”

Furthermore, Simone Biles now has five gymnastic moves named after her.

The nine-time (article printed before her other medals) Olympic medalist has five gymnastics skills named after her. Moves are named after the first gymnast who completes them in an international competition, according to the International Gymnastics Federation Code of Points. The move must also be above a certain difficulty level. 

Maybe Robinson can have some “moves” named after him based on his gaffes?

What Robinson’s words about Biles in 2021 and Biles’s actions since that time have made apparent is that Mark Robinson’s inability to see the worth of people he does not identify with disqualify him from being the leader of the state whose responsibility is to see the best in others and remove obstacles that keep them from realizing their potential.

Actually Mark Robinson is an obstacle who places himself in front of others in an egotistical manner to flex his perceived importance. We as a state need to do what Simone Biles would do when confronting an obstacle: vault over it.