• xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
    28·
    3 months 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.

    • simple
      8·
      3 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months 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.

  • Chef_Boyardee
    15·
    3 months 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]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    3 months 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.

    • callouscomicEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

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

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        3 months 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.

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    3 months 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.