Should I Feel Guilty?

[oze]

In my ordered list of things that matter to me:

10,493rd: The Olympics
10,494th: Soccer
10,495th: Women's Soccer

But yet....This news still made me smile:

Sweden Stuns U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in Tokyo Olympics Opener https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden...cer-team-in-tokyo-olympics-opener-11626866456

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[rhamersley]

In my ordered list of things that matter to me:

10,493rd: The Olympics
10,494th: Soccer
10,495th: Women's Soccer

But yet....This news still made me smile:

Sweden Stuns U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in Tokyo Olympics Opener https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden...cer-team-in-tokyo-olympics-opener-11626866456

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[printcraft]

In my ordered list of things that matter to me:

10,493rd: The Olympics
10,494th: Soccer
10,495th: Women's Soccer

But yet....This news still made me smile:

Sweden Stuns U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in Tokyo Olympics Opener https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden...cer-team-in-tokyo-olympics-opener-11626866456

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Wait, if this is about womens soccer why do they have mens soccer pictured on the article?
Someone call the graphics department of WSJ and tell them they goofed.

 

[Mikey1911]

In my ordered list of things that matter to me:

10,493rd: The Olympics
10,494th: Soccer
10,495th: Women's Soccer

But yet....This news still made me smile:

Sweden Stuns U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in Tokyo Olympics Opener https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden...cer-team-in-tokyo-olympics-opener-11626866456

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10,496th: Olympic Women’s Soccer

 

[Expat]

As I recall there are one or two players on the team that don't support the America hating purple haired contingent on the team. So I feel a little bad for them. But yeah, I have to admit to being pleased with the news.

ETA: I just read that it did include every team member, so no guilt felt for being pleased. **** ‘em.

 

[Bighoss91]

The only thing that makes me feel bad in the entire article is the 44 win streak that didn't account for when they lost to a under 15 boys team. Where's the equality?

 

[Flash-hider]

They'd probably lose to the Swedish women's bikini team too.

 

[BigRed]

In my ordered list of things that matter to me:

10,493rd: The Olympics
10,494th: Soccer
10,495th: Women's Soccer

But yet....This news still made me smile:

Sweden Stuns U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in Tokyo Olympics Opener https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden...cer-team-in-tokyo-olympics-opener-11626866456

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Wow.....your rankings are amazingly high.

Also, when did they start a women's soccer team?

 

[Hatin Since 87]

They'd probably lose to the Swedish women's bikini team too.

Gonna need pics for verification

 

[JCSR]

I love a good loss!

 

[rhamersley]

Still more talented than Megan, the rapping’ ho.

 

[1nderbeard]

It does me good to see US basketball loose too...as much as I hate to lose at anything. I'm just tired of American athletes (or anyone) proclaiming their "Betterness" than all of us common folk.
I have been casually watching. There are some neat stories. 20 year old engineering student winning the 10M shooting gold. American winning skeet, etc. Goes to show me that the only athletes that have gone crazy are (mostly) professional basketball.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I've not watched any of the Olympics, and have no plans to do so, but I was sorry to hear on the news just now that Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition today, citing "mental health issues". I can see that. She's been so hyped up, and placed on such a high pedestal that when she had a "less than perfect" performance (by her standards), I think it just got to her. I wish her nothing but the best. She is the GOAT (speaking as a former H.S. gymnast) for sure. She didn't go off to a safe space and hide though. She still stayed and continued to root for and support her team mates.

 

[KG1]

There's no sense of patriotism anymore where everyone could come together and want to root for the athletes that represent the USA. Everything has become jaded thanks to politics.

 

[oze]

I've not watched any of the Olympics, and have no plans to do so, but I was sorry to hear on the news just now that Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition today, citing "mental health issues". I can see that. She's been so hyped up, and placed on such a high pedestal that when she had a "less than perfect" performance (by her standards), I think it just got to her. I wish her nothing but the best. She is the GOAT (speaking as a former H.S. gymnast) for sure. She didn't go off to a safe space and hide though. She still stayed and continued to root for and support her team mates.

Since I don't pay the slightest attention to the olympics, I just now heard about her bad performance in some activity, after which she decided to quit. I can't help but wonder which of mental health/screwing up is the chicken, and which is the egg.

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[Expat]

I've not watched any of the Olympics, and have no plans to do so, but I was sorry to hear on the news just now that Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition today, citing "mental health issues". I can see that. She's been so hyped up, and placed on such a high pedestal that when she had a "less than perfect" performance (by her standards), I think it just got to her. I wish her nothing but the best. She is the GOAT (speaking as a former H.S. gymnast) for sure. She didn't go off to a safe space and hide though. She still stayed and continued to root for and support her team mates.

I was sorry to hear of her difficulties. She has always seemed like a good person but of course that could just mean she has good handlers. But she never went around pulling the despicable crap like the soccer girls.

 

[KLB]

There's no sense of patriotism anymore where everyone could come together and want to root for the athletes that represent the USA. Everything has become jaded thanks to politics.

It used to be sports was an escape from politics. Now they allow politics to inundate sports. They should have stuck to not allowing it.

 

[rhamersley]

I've not watched any of the Olympics, and have no plans to do so, but I was sorry to hear on the news just now that Simone Biles withdrew from the team competition today, citing "mental health issues". I can see that. She's been so hyped up, and placed on such a high pedestal that when she had a "less than perfect" performance (by her standards), I think it just got to her. I wish her nothing but the best. She is the GOAT (speaking as a former H.S. gymnast) for sure. She didn't go off to a safe space and hide though. She still stayed and continued to root for and support her team mates.

I wonder if some of the problem is the playing in front of empty stadiums. A lot of these athletes thrive on the crowd reaction...seems a lack of it might throw off at least individual sports people (being part of a team is different). You'd practice for it, of course, but has to be strange to have no one in the crowd.

 

[jamil]

I wonder if some of the problem is the playing in front of empty stadiums. A lot of these athletes thrive on the crowd reaction...seems a lack of it might throw off at least individual sports people (being part of a team is different). You'd practice for it, of course, but has to be strange to have no one in the crowd.

I had read that the "mental health issues" were in regards to the sexual assault on her by the USA gymnastics physician, who was convicted in 2018. So it wasn't just the pressure of living up to the hype.

 

[thunderchicken]

I wonder if some of the problem is the playing in front of empty stadiums. A lot of these athletes thrive on the crowd reaction...seems a lack of it might throw off at least individual sports people (being part of a team is different). You'd practice for it, of course, but has to be strange to have no one in the crowd.

So do they have large crowds watching everyday while they practice day in day out? Seems to me that if you can perform daily in practice and again in the Olympic trials without the crowd, one should be able to perform just fine without the crowd in competition.
Athletes have to often block out the crowd and do their thing.
Most athletes have practiced so much that much of what they do is muscle memory and routine repetitive actions. Often to the point they don't have to think about it very much and almost instinctively do it. Sometimes an athlete screws up and recovers from it quickly, other times it leads to being in a slump. I think that's how the mental side really comes into play, how they deal with the adversity or let the adversity define them.

I think there is something else going on besides a mental struggle that suddenly can't be blocked out for a few minutes.