Or, they suffered from early childhood malnutrition due to growing up in poverty and short stature is the least of their medical worries. You know, like Shang Chunsong, the 20-year-old woman you’re referencing who’s looked exactly the same for at least three years. What do they say about when you assume things?

Beam is not Simone’s best event. In fact, it’s the event on which she is least likely to win gold (not counting bars). She is much better on floor and vault than she is on beam, especially in comparison to the rest of the field. She won beam by over a point at last year’s Worlds because literally everyone else who was…