This is why I try to avoid watching BB live (it gets my blood pressure going up, because I know every moment could be an athlete's last moment on the beam: ditto for figure skating: every landing from every jump could send him or her tumbling to the ice)! Even the most skilled, most accomplished athletes, from Qiu Qiyuan up to Simone Biles... just 1/50 of an inch this or that way, on that narrow 4-inch of elevated wooden plank and you're on the mat...
@@AndromedaAiken After Ukraine invasion IOC banned the federation as well. Russian athletes could have gone to World Cup series to try qualify as independent individual athletes but they need to demonstrate that they are in no way in support of or associated with Russian government, which led to no athlete had gone down that route.
