It was nice of him to use the same font and background as his “hackers” in his Instagram post.
“I was hacked” is the new “my dog ate my homework/I’m sorry if I offended anyone”, but any hacker worth his/her salt would use the proper font and background.
I started a new medication and as I was on my way to work on the expressway I experienced a bout of vertigo if I moved my head. 70 miles an hour in traffic, this was very scary. I can only imagine the “twisties” are this magnified. I was scared out of my mind, all I could do was take my foot off the gas and keep looking straight ahead and pray no one ran into me as i could do nothing including looking in the rearview mirror without the world spinning crazily. Fortunately, the vertigo was over in a few seconds and no one ran into me. It took awhile before I could drive on the expressway again. Simone Biles has my sympathies and respect.
Speaking of adding useless events:
I have the Olympics on in the background, and there is apparently a mixed Triathlon relay. As far as I can tell, there are four contestants that each run a shortened triathlon. The talking heads are going on about how triathletes usually don’t compete as part of the team. I am not sure where the teamwork comes in here. The American team has never trained together. They each apparently run their own race. It doesn’t even have the strategy of the mixed swimming relay where you have to decided which person swims which stroke. They just each do their own race then tag in the next person. I don’t think they even have a baton to pass.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all in favor of more mixed sports. But I would rather see sports where teamwork is necessary. How about mixed water polo? Mixed synchronized diving (which is incidentally an actual competition and in many ways more difficult that same-sex synchronized diving because it may be harder to synchronize with different body types)?
Oh no!. According to the commentator, the American fumbled in the all-important putting on shoes portion of the event, allowing France to overtake him. I would blame the American educational system for not teaching kids to tie their shoes but they apparently have velcro. I would think that any elite triathlete would take at least several hours a week to train in changing shoes.
John Wooden spent a lot of time training his athletes to put on their socks properly.
Because…wrinkles in your socks can cause blisters and blisters at the wrong time can lose you a game. But, yeah.
Yeah, I think there are some sports where having your head in the game is not just a matter of saving one’s self and their teammates from embarrassment, but actually a matter of life or death. She could have broken her neck had her trajectory been at a different angle. Gymnastics at the elite level is a grueling sport, and the consequences of failing can be bone-jarring, and in some extreme cases, potentially life-threatening.
We should keep in mind that, as far as we know, Tom Brady and Michael Jordan were never sexually assaulted. There’s probably a lot of lingering trauma that comes with the assault and having to face it publicly, which she has done within the past year or two.
She only very recently admitted she was one of the gymnasts who were abused. It’s still fresh for her.
OK I pit equestrian.
I’m watching cross country and thinking to myself “they shouldn’t have this. Sure if you want to risk breaking your neck on the balance beam, that’s fine. You have informed consent, But the horse doesn’t.”
And then at the end they tell of a horse that had to be put down after an injury. Pissed me right off.
I’m gonna Pit Volleyball. After every play, when a point is scored, some fucking DJ hits some kinda crappy, fuzzed-up random Techo music until the next service. So fucking annoying.
Oh, and have I mentioned the commercials? The endless, repetitive commercials? There are 3-4 channels with stuff on pretty much all the time. I flip back and forth to find something I’d be willing to stomach, and always land on a commercial. All… Day… Long. And Dick’s can go suck himself.
I’m sick of this kind of coverage:
1- NBC cans a sappy story about every American about to compete in an event
2- NBC tapes the event
3- NBC airs the sappy story about whichever American happened to get a medal just prior to step 4.
4- NBC runs selected replays of the event, covering only American competitors as well as a very few from other countries
5- Sappy interview with the American medalist
6- Piss and moan about Simone Biles
Speaking of water polo . . . what’s with the shower caps?
Two purposes:
- The color IDs which team you’re on and what player # you are, and
- plastic guards protect the ears from injury.
You literally just described them: people who don’t think mental health issues are real. You’re not the rare person to be blessed with never knowing someone with a mental illness, but those who hold them in contempt. An ignorant person wouldn’t insist after things had been explained.
She can’t help her mental illness. She can’t help that she can’t feel where she is in 3D space. The one thing she could control to help is to quit and led the backups (the same ones who would have made it if she’d not gone in the first place) step in. She does the one right thing with what she could control, and they attack her for what she can’t.
Those are the hallmarks of bigotry. And while the overlap is imperfect, different kinds of bigotry often overlap. It’s no coincidence that the people who persist are also the ones who have been caught saying racist shit before, trying to use bigotry for partisan purposes.
As for her getting back into the Olympics: if she shows the skills to compete in 4 years, she’ll be back in. If she doesn’t, she won’t. Making the Olympics is not a popularity contest, so handwringing about how she’s being perceived makes no sense.
It’s not like they’re going to pass a rule saying that says that anyone who withdraws due to injury and illness can’t compete again.
Heh, so not to protect their hair from the effects of chlorine. I was in a bar with water polo on TV and I had someone convinced that chlorine was the reason.
More importantly, they’re acting like the Olympics matters. I suppose in international penis-measuring contests it might, but in pretty much every other practical way, it’s meaningless. Everyone loves to cheer on their own nations, friendly nations, or particularly enthusiastic foreigners (I mean, how entertaining was Gianmarco Tamberi? Can’t help but be happy with him.).
That’s about it though; there aren’t any taxation implications, there aren’t any military implications, and there aren’t any foreign policy implications. It’s all entertainment.
And these conservative dickweeds are pulling out their whole set of Vince Lombardi quotes and making it sound like Biles is a traitor because she didn’t put “her team” ahead of her own well-being. That sort of thing is good in the military, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in the civilian world in any endeavor, save ones where public safety/life and limb is at stake. I mean, I’d want the nuclear reactor guys to put the good of the community ahead of their own well being if there’s some sort of accident. Same with cops. But I don’t expect the garbageman to keep working when he’s injured, or the person in the county accounting department to come in despite being sick. Nor do I expect athletes to play through pain or play injured. I’ve always felt that was a bit on the insane side.
We don’t know that; like I said in another thread, it’s entirely possible that she realized she’d be more of a liability than an asset, and opted out to give the other gymnasts a chance to do well, vs. her screwing up. And even if she didn’t, what does it matter? Nobody dies or is tortured because she opts out. There’s literally zero consequence if the gymnasts get silver instead of gold. Yes, it’s the big show for gymnastics, but she’s also got nothing to prove at this point.
It should not be so, but the Olympics is much more about politics and its associated jingoism and crony capitalism than the loftier ideals they profess to aspire to. Biles reminds us the athletes matter.
I just assumed it was about money. Lots and lots of money.
The same assholes who won’t wear masks or get vaccinated, I’d wager. Real team players.
As so many coaches have said; "There’s no “I” in “team”.
What they failed to notice is that there is a “me”.