Dog I just don’t think we should bully people who lose in the Olympics until they need therapy. Radical love, I know.

If we’re gonna call them both Olympic sports they should be treated with similar respect. They get the same medals and compete in the same games.

Perhaps breaking is on such a different “level” it doesn’t actually belong in the Olympics.

Similarly, I personally know dozens of random everyday women who can run faster marathons. Doesn’t make either performance funny or worthy of celebration.

Yeah very few people have run a 4 hour marathon.

Even fewer have run 2:24:00, like a woman in Ethiopia did who will never get to represent her country at the Olympics because her spot was given to someone who would be in a middle of the pack starting corral at any major marathon in the world.

If you think running 26.2 miles at a 9:00 min/mile pace is impressive, just imagine how impressed you’d be by the woman from Ethiopia who can run that same distance at a 5:30 min/mile pace! (her spot was taken by someone who would run in a middle of the pack corral at any major marathon).

I agree her marathon performance is not funny at all. I’m suggesting it didn’t belong in the Olympics. Her slot should have gone to someone who ran the Olympic standard qualifying time. We shouldn’t give out spots to the Olympics based entirely on nationality, especially not when it sets people up to be that far behind. Should we give out boxing universality slots to completely untrained athletes because they are from small developing nations to watch them get their ass kicked? Absolutely not. Even when there are big underdogs, slots should go to people who are at least competing in the same field, otherwise they are allocated at the expense of more deserving athletes.

By the way I love Bhutanese culture and dream to visit there some day.

I guess its fine to make fun of people for bad Olympic performances so long as they’re from countries like Australia and their sport isn’t something like running?

Just think about the logic here. Two Olympic sports. Two Olympians. Two bad performances. One becomes a total joke at the expense of someone now being provided mental health support, and one is celebrated and lauded as a remarkable feat.