There’s a group of swim coaches online trying to decide whether or not Regan Smith should have been disqualified for saying a “bad word” after breaking the WORLD RECORD in the 100 backstroke.
The conversation is MOSTLY leaning towards “yes” for a DQ.
What. Are. We. Doing.
@anyafilmed
idk why this happens but it seems like everyone now assumes that a movie endorses the actions of its protagonist as good and perfect and wonderful and if you like the movie it means you agree with everything happening on screen
if your gut reaction to seeing a cinese athlete is to assume they're duping without evidence, maybe examine why you only do that for chinese athletes. there's as much evidence of Pan doping as there is of Marchand, or O'Callaghan, or Ledecky. That is to say none so far
i love how in swimming they're like "oh they touched together! neat a tie :)" and in track they're like "actually his nose hair was slightly less trimmed this morning which means he actually crossed the line 0.000000000006 femptoseconds ahead, so we can't award a tie"
Americans being so mad about Australia being better in the olympic swimming is soooooo good like you guys aren't even girt how can you think for a second you make for good competition?
In retrospect, all the “double-jointed” “12,000 calorie diet” and “6’8 wingspan” claims were blatant misdirection to distract from the fact that Phelps was almost certainly doped to the gills
@OneFeIISwoop
spotify loses money on licensing to actual artists so they're pushing a lot of generic/generated music in order to stay in the black. A lot of the stuff on there is AI. Here's a playlist of songs that are exactly the same
i cannot believe americans are trying to argue that their states are as culturally different as european countries my fucking god they’re so egotistical
WAIT "MOST DECORATED SWIMMER IN NC STATE HISTORY"???? she literally has 2 relay golds at NCAA's, berkoff is a 7x world medallist & 4x NCAA champ, sophie hansson 9x and 4x respectively. I thought I just hadn't heard of her but turns out there's a reason for that
Today I met with Kylee, the most decorated swimmer in NC State history. She told me how she changed in a storage closet at the NCAA finals rather than experience the sexual harassment that comes with undressing in front of Will “Lia” Thomas – a biological male who insisted on
Swimmers to win a world triple in one stroke since Fukuoka 2001:
I. Thorpe 🇦🇺 (200, 400, 800) in 2001
H. Stockbauer 🇩🇪 (4, 8, 1500) in 2003
G. Hackett 🇦🇺 (4, 8, 1500) in 2005
Yang S. 🇨🇳 (4, 8, 1500) in 2013
K. Ledecky 🇺🇲 (4, 8, 1500) in 2013
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@punishedgarage
adult converts are universally the strangest people. they dont have any actual ties to the cultural aspects of being catholic, they just think it's supposed to be conservative, and they wanna larp as crusaders
whats this angle? physically impossible to look a little flushed after exercise? have you never been outside before? also why do they all say he's purple when hes like... white people skin tone
The 46 Club --
Every swimmer to split 46.XX on a relay at a major international meet:
[Swimmer (no. of 46s) - Best Split]
K. Chalmers 🇦🇺 (9) - 46.44
N. Adrian 🇺🇲 (5) - 46.69
A. Bernard 🇫🇷 (4) - 46.26
Z. Apple 🇺🇲 (3) - 46.69
P. Hoogenband 🇳🇱 (2) - 46.70
F. Bousquet 🇫🇷 (2) - 46.63
@havanar0seliu
@sixinchbeys
flags don't dictate culture, america has many different languages and cultures that exist within one country. just because it's all within one set of borders doesn't mean it's homogenous
@buggirl29
there's no way its easier to describe an email to a chatbot and try to get it to write what you want, than it would be to just describe it to yourself and then write down the words
@wcsstallvn
*In her thesis defense*
"kate, we think that the point on axial torque about the hip joint is inaccurate-
kate: thats because you never won anything
*making coffee* it is by will alone i set my mind in motion, by the juice of sapho the thoughts aquire speed, the lips aquire stains, these stains become a warning--
@TrueSlazac
I've always been in favor of weighting them by type on the scoreboard. if a country gets 0 gold but say, 25 silvers, in my mind thats worth more than 1 gold and no other medals
@AngusJBA
@OrganizerMemes
if you're a college student all you gotta do is go "hey vote for me it'd be funny" and you're guaranteed at least a dozen votes
@sandylanceley
if we're going by per-capita medals, liechtenstein is the most prolific nation in olympic history. all hail the great and powerful liechtenstein!
@kylesockwell
hate to gatekeep the sport but people really should shut up and learn a little before they embarrass themselves. nobody under that article actually cares about swimming
@nietwakker
go test him yourself then. all available evidence says he's clean. going fast isnt in itself suspicious, in fact it's actually the entire point of the sport