i wonder if super high-level competitors ever just get bored of winning. i mean, how long can you stay hungry when you’ve won everything there is to win in your field
i checked up on simone biles and after taking a break for most of 2017 post-olympics, she won the 2018 and 2019 world championships by absolutely massive margins. she even invented a new floor move that only she can do and unveiled it at the 2019 world championship, because if you’re simone biles, why the fuck not
isn’t that when you retreat into your lair full of trophies to brood and as you sink into jaded repose an obsequious flunky brings word of a brash young challenger from out of town,
or you construct or summon a challenger, or you just start abusing your powers in the hope that it will give a future challenger a dark backstory