• @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    Mine is usually sheer horror at the prospect of getting that far and screwing up on an international stage. Secondhand anxiety is in the red zone.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      I seriously dislike that some of the Olympic games end in around 5 minutes. Imagine spending years practicing fencing and then end up getting zero medals just because you had a bad few rounds.

      • @maniii
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        41 month ago

        Yep. Its like finals. You get your one-shot to get it right. Else you have to rebuild to try the next 4 years after. You get to the Olympics means you are the best of the best. And winning a medal is literally 3 out of 7 Billion human beings.

        So you prepare and prepare and hope you do it all with less errors than the other guys.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      Especially cringey that so much of the coverage are just random celebrities and not more actual former Olympians.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I’m so old that I remember when the Olympics was on more than one channel. If one channel had bad chatter, you would just bend the aerial and turn the dial to get something better.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 month ago

    I was at a bar in 2012 when McKayla Maroney botched her vault. I yelled “You suck!”

    The thing is my friend worked there, and it was this restaurant on Capitol Hill in DC. I’m a metalhead, and I look the part. So, I stuck out like a sore thumb.

    I definitely was the guy in this picture to everyone that day.

  • davel [he/him]
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    131 month ago

    As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 month ago

    Seeing a mountain biker and an equestrianeer both go down so hard that they took an involuntary nappy makes me feel a lot better about not going outside. Yes, I should play more video games.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    41 month ago

    Wierd Al’s Inactive seeps into the audio