I agree, it’s not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don’t think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
That’s what you’re saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who’s been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens… well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of “well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going.” She’s got athlete brain, she wants to win, she’s been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should’ve stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should’ve put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
I understand that being a top tier athlete comes with a lot of ambition, determination and desire to win, but there is no single win worth being the woman who literally shat all over herself, the shared equipment, and indirectly her competitors, in the public eye for the rest of her career. That has to occur to someone in that position as well, no matter how in the zone they are.
Well you saw that in the immediate aftermath, she was still proud of her win, and she saw it as a moment of perseverance. It’s a terrible thing to shit oneself in public, but with her athlete brain, in the immediate aftermath, in the hospital, with all those endorphins and dopamine flooding her system, she saw it as a badge of honor. People are over here defending the actions of Lindsey Clancy whilst being in an altered mental state, I think we can give the same to an athlete that wanted to win at any personal cost.
But yeah, judges should’ve stepped in. If it was an outdoor marathon, and the worst thing that resulted from it was another runner potentially stepping in it… That’s one thing. But she got shit on the hands, butt, arms, of other competitors. That’s foul. Judges, who were not in an altered mental state, should’ve stopped her. They’re who we should really be looking at.
I agree, it’s not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don’t think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
That’s what you’re saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who’s been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens… well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of “well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going.” She’s got athlete brain, she wants to win, she’s been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should’ve stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should’ve put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
I understand that being a top tier athlete comes with a lot of ambition, determination and desire to win, but there is no single win worth being the woman who literally shat all over herself, the shared equipment, and indirectly her competitors, in the public eye for the rest of her career. That has to occur to someone in that position as well, no matter how in the zone they are.
Well you saw that in the immediate aftermath, she was still proud of her win, and she saw it as a moment of perseverance. It’s a terrible thing to shit oneself in public, but with her athlete brain, in the immediate aftermath, in the hospital, with all those endorphins and dopamine flooding her system, she saw it as a badge of honor. People are over here defending the actions of Lindsey Clancy whilst being in an altered mental state, I think we can give the same to an athlete that wanted to win at any personal cost.
But yeah, judges should’ve stepped in. If it was an outdoor marathon, and the worst thing that resulted from it was another runner potentially stepping in it… That’s one thing. But she got shit on the hands, butt, arms, of other competitors. That’s foul. Judges, who were not in an altered mental state, should’ve stopped her. They’re who we should really be looking at.
You’ll never get an unexpected and devastating 2nd place finish at your first Ironman triathlon with that attitude.
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___look up Julie Moss