Now that all the Olympic gymnastics drama is over, maybe people will stop speaking for Kerri Strug. Whatever there is to consider regarding Simone Biles’ untimely onset of competitive insecurity—risk vs. reward, outside expectations vs. individual awareness, the so-called culture of “winning at all costs” vs. various interpretations of “courage”—to compare her situation to Strug’s 25 years ago at the Atlanta Games is a leap. With a high degree of difficulty.

Mostly, the juxtaposition of those two Olympic moments amounts to nothing more than Twitter conjecture mixed with sermonizing.

One ill-informed post declared that Strug “is rolling over in her grave now” because “she finished the Olympics (and brought home the gold) on a broken leg. [While] Simone Biles just quit on her team.”

Strug, it should be noted, is not rolling over in her grave because she is not—thank God—in her grave. She is a healthy 43-year-old mother of two, veteran of several marathons, author of a children’s book and autobiography, with a master’s degree and a resume that includes work in the Treasury and Justice departments.

She also did not, as the “grave” tweet claimed, execute that 1996 vault on a broken leg. She had damaged two ligaments in her ankle on her first of two vault attempts and went ahead with a second try, which at first was believed to be necessary for the Americans to sew up a team gold medal. (Later calculations revealed that her score wasn’t necessary for the victory, but Strug’s final jump was captivating sports theater.)

Anyway, to segue from that to concluding that Biles “quit on her team” in Tokyo not only is blatant Monday-morning quarterbacking but unrelated to Strug’s situation. Strug was carrying on in spite of physical pain; Biles was unsettled by a dangerous case of the “twisties,” a sudden sense that, in the air, she “couldn’t tell up from down.”

Just as speculative was a headline on Slate.com making the case that Biles’ no-mas resolution somehow proved that “Kerry Strug shouldn’t have been forced to do that vault” a quarter-century earlier. NBC’s website went the next step by claiming Strug “praises Simon Biles’ decision,” offering as evidence nothing more than a Strug tweet that simply said she was “sending love to you @Simon Biles.”

There was no direct contact with Strug to substantiate that, by “sending love,” she meant to “praise” Biles’ choice to withdraw.

A writer for something called Bustle.com claimed the personal recollection that Strug, in 1996, “rocketed down the vault runway….just 18 years old, only 4-9 and muscular, blonde….” But, in fact, Strug—though she in fact was 18 at the time—was 4-foot-7 and had close-cropped brown hair.

OK, that’s a quibble. But context matters, and it’s important to report that, immediately after Strug’s instantly famous vault, there was outrage with the assumption that Strug—a girl!—had been bullied into soldiering on by coach Bela Karolyi. The bearish, intimidating Karolyi indeed believed wholeheartedly in gymnastics’ Darwinian survival ethic. But more to the point was the fact that an 18-year-old boy, in a similar situation, could have counted on lavish praise for “playing hurt” and “taking one for the team.”

It also was clear that Strug typified a gymnastics truth that, at 18, she had not yet reached puberty and wouldn’t until she retired from the sport, which typically requires a training regimen so physically demanding that girls in their late teens often have not gained enough body weight to attain sexual maturity. Strug at the time looked and, with her canary voice, sounded like a 12-year-old.

Still. That day she said her final vault was her call. “I’m 18. I can make my own choices.”

Was it a smart move? Was it right? “The public wants to see us as dainty little girls,” Strug said during a lengthy phone interview in 2000, four years after the fact. “We are strong young individuals who have to make a lot of tough decisions. We’re away from home, on a strict diet, not going to regular schools, and if a child doesn’t want to do all of that, you can’t force them to.”

At the time, she found it a “little perplexing” that there still was a big fuss over her vault. “To me,” she said, “the injury thing was just another little sacrifice toward achieving my goals. And why should my goals be any different from a boy’s?”

In the end, could it be that Strug—like Biles 25 years later, and under entirely different circumstances not to be compared—had used the muscles in her head? In each case: Her call.