So much worse than it sounds. This was an indoor race and it wasn't just running. They used "communal equipment such as ropes, sandbags, rowing machines and medicine balls"
She finished first, so there was poop smeared on everything for the racers behind her. She ruined everyone's race and potentially got people sick.
It's why they're runners -- they frequently have to shit without much warning, so they've gotten good at running (to the nearest bathroom or waste receptacle)
I heard he literally ate McDonalds before all big races because on a few occasions nice restaurants gave him diarrhea and he wouldn't take the chance again. Better to have poor but extremely consistent food.
Nice of her to apologize, but this is really on the officials and the organization for not pulling her out.
High-level athletes are always going to want to compete. They'll play through injury and discomfort to win. If it were up to them, they would and do put themselves in danger of further injury just to get out there and play. That's why coaches and staff are the ones who make decisions to bench players for injury and it's not left up to the players themselves.
I agree, it's not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don't think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
That's what you're saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who's been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens... well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of "well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going." She's got athlete brain, she wants to win, she's been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should've stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should've put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
I understand that being a top tier athlete comes with a lot of ambition, determination and desire to win, but there is no single win worth being the woman who literally shat all over herself, the shared equipment, and indirectly her competitors, in the public eye for the rest of her career. That has to occur to someone in that position as well, no matter how in the zone they are.
Well you saw that in the immediate aftermath, she was still proud of her win, and she saw it as a moment of perseverance. It's a terrible thing to shit oneself in public, but with her athlete brain, in the immediate aftermath, in the hospital, with all those endorphins and dopamine flooding her system, she saw it as a badge of honor. People are over here defending the actions of Lindsey Clancy whilst being in an altered mental state, I think we can give the same to an athlete that wanted to win at any personal cost.
But yeah, judges should've stepped in. If it was an outdoor marathon, and the worst thing that resulted from it was another runner potentially stepping in it... That's one thing. But she got shit on the hands, butt, arms, of other competitors. That's foul. Judges, who were not in an altered mental state, should've stopped her. They're who we should really be looking at.
It's wild that she just kept on competing. Call me crazy but once I shit my pants in front of thousands of people I immediately get the fuck out if there.
I feel sorry for these people when I read stories like these. They're pushing themselves so hard physically and emotionally, their head's in a weird place, their judgement is off and they end up humiliating themselves on the world stage. Virtually the entire world. The worst kind of fame. This person's life is over. They will forever be the point of ridicule by everyone.
Can you imagine waking up every day, your career is totally over, having to face that. Knowing that the whole world has seen what you did in the heat of the moment. You have let down every one who supported you, your family, and failed your life's goal in the most embarrassing way possible. To hide yourself away in miserable shame is the best you could possibly hope for.
And it just doesn't go away, now you have to get on camera to apologize and explain it away. You have to make statements. You have to watch clips of it over and over. Everywhere you go people are talking about you in hushed mocking wispers. Everything you do will have an asterisk near it. One fucked up moment overshadows everything else you will ever do from here on out. For the rest of your life.
Apparently, in her mind this was a Michael Jordan with the flu situation. She has pictures afterwards in a hospital bed getting an IV and bragging about how you have to do what you have to do.
Now all that said, I'm a little sympathetic, as apparently shitting yourself during marathons and the like is not uncommon, but this was some weird crossfit thing where you are indoors and constantly getting down on the floor for various reasons and using provided equipment, so anyone who came after her was wading through her poopies. I think you have to be capable of being very self-centered, at least temporarily, to be a truly elite competitive athlete, but somebody should have thought this one through better.
Well, it's no one's obligation to validate someone, or be friends with them. When you put your entire self-worth in the hands of random people, this is exactly what happens. They treat you like a broken, tainted object.
The key is to pick a path where you are not well known, and don't give a shit about other people and what they have to offer.
Sucks that the athlete is getting all the blame when the event organizers are the ones who had the most responsibility to prevent this. They should've disqualified her as soon as they saw the feces running down her leg. It retrospect it's easy for her to see that this was gross and inappropriate, but during the heat of the competition the burden should've been on someone from Hyrox to pull her aside and tell her she is disqualified because she's causing a safety hazard for the other competitors.
Yeah if it was like a bit before the finish line I can see pushing through it, but it look like she got shit all over multiple pieces of equipment causing a huge health risk. Ignoring all of that stepping out of the race cause you shit yourself would probably make this a lot less news worthy and you would at least have some sympathy from people.
Edit: fixed grammar
Wietrzyk's major sponsor, Puma, is distancing itself from the athlete by quietly removing "Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA" clothing items from its website. But a spokesperson for Puma says there's "no change" to their partnership with Wietrzyk, telling CBC News in a statement Thursday that some landing pages were "unintentionally taken offline."
On social media, people have flooded the brand's comments with plays on "Puma," such as "Pooma," "Poopma" and "Poo Ma Pants."
Holy... She kept going even after the diarrhea started? How did they not disqualify her once there was shit running down her legs? And the nerve to make all the other participants touch your shit just to win a race is something else. I know athletes need a competitive mindset but thats just disrespectful.
How did they not disqualify her once there was shit running down her legs?
From what I read elsewhere, it sounded like a situation the officials were simply unprepared to deal with, and there was nothing in the rules about it. Just not something that has happened before or had been thought of as a possibility. I have the impression this is a newer sport, not something that has been around for decades or even centuries, like running.
Hyrox is like CrossFit, but with less emphasis on events and movements where technique/coordination/timing are critical. Things like Olympic lifting and kipping pull ups aren't part of the competition.
I guess it happens to marathon runners all the time, but they're generally on public streets outdoors (with the airflow advantages that implies) and the worst case is stepping in it and getting it on their shoes. This is a much more up-close sport (and indoors), like to the point where other competitors might have needed to do pushups in the same spot she did them. They tore out the carpet after her race.
It doesn't help that she posted "Go hard or go home. A win is a win" while getting an IV immediately afterwards.
It doesn't help that she posted "Go hard or go home. A win is a win" while getting an IV immediately afterwards.
Yeah I think she didnt exactly have a clear mind after winning a professional competition while sick and leaking diarrhea everywhere.
But yeah it does make her sound very arrogant and disrespectful.
multiple media outlets report that Wietrzyk's major sponsor, Puma, is distancing itself from the athlete by quietly removing "Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA" clothing items from its website.
...
On social media, people have flooded the brand's comments with plays on "Puma," such as "Pooma," "Poopma" and "Poo Ma Pants."
i had no idea what it was, so i looked on the wiki. a branded and licensed (i.e. for profit) exercise thing. kinda like crossfit, which is more about the workout regimen and less about the competitions. this one started with the competitions but all those competitors and wannabes still have to workout and train so there is several categories of licensed facilities for that. the routine of a run followed by a workout exercise and then repeat several more times is very similar to some of my varsity track workouts back in the 1980s
Hyrox as a sport won't live this down for a while, and I doubt she ever will. She'll be the lady that shat herself doing Hyrox for the rest of her life.
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AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world · 172 pts · 3d
So much worse than it sounds. This was an indoor race and it wasn't just running. They used "communal equipment such as ropes, sandbags, rowing machines and medicine balls"
She finished first, so there was poop smeared on everything for the racers behind her. She ruined everyone's race and potentially got people sick.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 3d
If it had been intentional, it would have been a brilliant strategy - take an early lead and shit on everything to slow everyone else down.
putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social · 22 pts · 3d
I can’t stop laughing
Zagam@piefed.social · 54 pts · 3d
It was bad enough that athletes behind her were gagging and trying not to vomit. Now, hyrox did give those athletes time penalties.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 3d
Amazing.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 3d
Runners often have the shits, it's just biology
frunch@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 3d
It's why they're runners -- they frequently have to shit without much warning, so they've gotten good at running (to the nearest bathroom or waste receptacle)
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d
I wonder what Usain Bolt's diet must have been 🤔
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
I heard he literally ate McDonalds before all big races because on a few occasions nice restaurants gave him diarrhea and he wouldn't take the chance again. Better to have poor but extremely consistent food.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 3d
True, let's not conflate cause and effect ig.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 2d
Runners also run outdoors and don't share equipment.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 3d
She may have been #1 but #2 was right on her heels.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 3d
And in her socks. Also her back and arms somehow.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 3d
Nice of her to apologize, but this is really on the officials and the organization for not pulling her out.
High-level athletes are always going to want to compete. They'll play through injury and discomfort to win. If it were up to them, they would and do put themselves in danger of further injury just to get out there and play. That's why coaches and staff are the ones who make decisions to bench players for injury and it's not left up to the players themselves.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 3d
I agree, it's not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don't think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 3d
I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
searabbit@piefed.social · 14 pts · 3d
You'll never get an unexpected and devastating 2nd place finish at your first Ironman triathlon with that attitude.
::: spoiler spoiler ___look up Julie Moss :::
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
That's what you're saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who's been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens... well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of "well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going." She's got athlete brain, she wants to win, she's been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should've stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should've put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
I understand that being a top tier athlete comes with a lot of ambition, determination and desire to win, but there is no single win worth being the woman who literally shat all over herself, the shared equipment, and indirectly her competitors, in the public eye for the rest of her career. That has to occur to someone in that position as well, no matter how in the zone they are.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Well you saw that in the immediate aftermath, she was still proud of her win, and she saw it as a moment of perseverance. It's a terrible thing to shit oneself in public, but with her athlete brain, in the immediate aftermath, in the hospital, with all those endorphins and dopamine flooding her system, she saw it as a badge of honor. People are over here defending the actions of Lindsey Clancy whilst being in an altered mental state, I think we can give the same to an athlete that wanted to win at any personal cost.
But yeah, judges should've stepped in. If it was an outdoor marathon, and the worst thing that resulted from it was another runner potentially stepping in it... That's one thing. But she got shit on the hands, butt, arms, of other competitors. That's foul. Judges, who were not in an altered mental state, should've stopped her. They're who we should really be looking at.
RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 3d
It's wild that she just kept on competing. Call me crazy but once I shit my pants in front of thousands of people I immediately get the fuck out if there.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 156 pts · 3d
She got the runs, not the stops.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 3d
If I could give more than one upvote.....well played!
qarbone@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3d
And that's why you're not a champion! Every winner shits their pants!
scrodumb@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 3d
Good enough for POTUS is good enough for my household.
BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 3d
USA! USA! USA!
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
WE'RE #2!
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 3d
many long distance cyclists piss and shit in their knicks.
frunch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
I'll never look at those Spandex'd cyclists the same way 😶
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
It's why they're always so butthurt about traffic on roadways.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Just don't get that one dude who'll stare you in the eye and try to outshit you
celeste@kbin.earth · 66 pts · 3d
You know what? I'm going to give myself a little treat today and not read this article!
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 3d
It's guaranteed to be a shit article.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
I'm sure she didn't want to shit herself, so she's goof.
Edit I meant good, but goof works too
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 3d
I feel sorry for these people when I read stories like these. They're pushing themselves so hard physically and emotionally, their head's in a weird place, their judgement is off and they end up humiliating themselves on the world stage. Virtually the entire world. The worst kind of fame. This person's life is over. They will forever be the point of ridicule by everyone.
Can you imagine waking up every day, your career is totally over, having to face that. Knowing that the whole world has seen what you did in the heat of the moment. You have let down every one who supported you, your family, and failed your life's goal in the most embarrassing way possible. To hide yourself away in miserable shame is the best you could possibly hope for.
And it just doesn't go away, now you have to get on camera to apologize and explain it away. You have to make statements. You have to watch clips of it over and over. Everywhere you go people are talking about you in hushed mocking wispers. Everything you do will have an asterisk near it. One fucked up moment overshadows everything else you will ever do from here on out. For the rest of your life.
That's a hard burden to carry.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3d
Apparently, in her mind this was a Michael Jordan with the flu situation. She has pictures afterwards in a hospital bed getting an IV and bragging about how you have to do what you have to do.
Now all that said, I'm a little sympathetic, as apparently shitting yourself during marathons and the like is not uncommon, but this was some weird crossfit thing where you are indoors and constantly getting down on the floor for various reasons and using provided equipment, so anyone who came after her was wading through her poopies. I think you have to be capable of being very self-centered, at least temporarily, to be a truly elite competitive athlete, but somebody should have thought this one through better.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 3d
Well, it's no one's obligation to validate someone, or be friends with them. When you put your entire self-worth in the hands of random people, this is exactly what happens. They treat you like a broken, tainted object.
The key is to pick a path where you are not well known, and don't give a shit about other people and what they have to offer.
Arshem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Sucks that the athlete is getting all the blame when the event organizers are the ones who had the most responsibility to prevent this. They should've disqualified her as soon as they saw the feces running down her leg. It retrospect it's easy for her to see that this was gross and inappropriate, but during the heat of the competition the burden should've been on someone from Hyrox to pull her aside and tell her she is disqualified because she's causing a safety hazard for the other competitors.
BuckFutter@timeyak.com · 43 pts · 3d
Man at first I felt bad for her, but after reading the article…nah what a shitshow
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 3d
Yeah if it was like a bit before the finish line I can see pushing through it, but it look like she got shit all over multiple pieces of equipment causing a huge health risk. Ignoring all of that stepping out of the race cause you shit yourself would probably make this a lot less news worthy and you would at least have some sympathy from people. Edit: fixed grammar
BuckFutter@timeyak.com · 12 pts · 3d
Yah thats where I landed as well…you had so many chances to withdraw but instead made a literal mess everywhere…yah thats just nasty. 🤮
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
And no wonder she was first. Anyone behind her had to navigate equipment covered in diarrhea.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Literally a shit show
velma@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 3d
Puma dropped her as a sponsor. It's the only reason she backed off and forfeited.
brax@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 3d
"I love my sponsor so much that I even Puma pants!"
scrodumb@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 3d
Okay in a 14 comment thread this is the second to make me chuckle. Saved.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3d
POO-MA!
Wish I could take credit for that one.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 3d
Too bad they weren't known for pants, the Puma Pants Company would have loved to sponsor her.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 26 pts · 3d
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2d
She thought it was a competition of having the runs
The youths told her the coolest kids have drip
She heard she could make money streaming
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2d
You're terrible. Take my updoot.
CheesyFingers@piefed.social · 18 pts · 3d
Nice PR apology. If she actually gave a shit she would have forfeit before it became an issue.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 3d
If she gave a "shit" you say?
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2d
She gave too much shit
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
At least she didn't double down or just keep quiet.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2d
Am I the only one impressed that she beat everyone else while shitting? Guess everyone else was grossed out.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 2d
The article mentioned apparently some people slipped on it
I think if I was competing I'd not even try at that point. Might just dq myself
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
And using other equipment smeared with poo.
I'd probably lose some seconds deciding whether or not to climb a rope with someone's shit on it. (Like... I'd quit)
fartographer@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
For me, it's always a race when I have diarrhea
maxthemummer@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 2d
Why it's called "the runs."
tomi000@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2d
Holy... She kept going even after the diarrhea started? How did they not disqualify her once there was shit running down her legs? And the nerve to make all the other participants touch your shit just to win a race is something else. I know athletes need a competitive mindset but thats just disrespectful.
limelight79@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
From what I read elsewhere, it sounded like a situation the officials were simply unprepared to deal with, and there was nothing in the rules about it. Just not something that has happened before or had been thought of as a possibility. I have the impression this is a newer sport, not something that has been around for decades or even centuries, like running.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Probably. I can imagine them like "what do we do? Spitting on the equipment is against the rules but it doesnt say anything about shitting"
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
It's CrossFit. It's just got a new name
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
Hyrox is like CrossFit, but with less emphasis on events and movements where technique/coordination/timing are critical. Things like Olympic lifting and kipping pull ups aren't part of the competition.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
“Ain’t no rule that says a dog cain’t play basketball while they has diarrhea!”
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Don’t runners shit themselves commonly? I’ve seen lots of marathon runners shit themselves. You’d think they’d have something prepared.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d
I guess it happens to marathon runners all the time, but they're generally on public streets outdoors (with the airflow advantages that implies) and the worst case is stepping in it and getting it on their shoes. This is a much more up-close sport (and indoors), like to the point where other competitors might have needed to do pushups in the same spot she did them. They tore out the carpet after her race.
It doesn't help that she posted "Go hard or go home. A win is a win" while getting an IV immediately afterwards.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
Yeah I think she didnt exactly have a clear mind after winning a professional competition while sick and leaking diarrhea everywhere. But yeah it does make her sound very arrogant and disrespectful.
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 13 pts · 3d
Klanky@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 3d
And here I was thinking Hyrox was the original Oreo. I heard about this but had no idea ‘Hyrox’ was the name of the sport. 🤣
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d
You sure it's not a small, stout, thickset, herbivorous mammal in the family Procaviidae instead?
wjrii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Nah, that's Hyrax. You're thinking of the South Korean RAM manufacturer.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 3d
i had no idea what it was, so i looked on the wiki. a branded and licensed (i.e. for profit) exercise thing. kinda like crossfit, which is more about the workout regimen and less about the competitions. this one started with the competitions but all those competitors and wannabes still have to workout and train so there is several categories of licensed facilities for that. the routine of a run followed by a workout exercise and then repeat several more times is very similar to some of my varsity track workouts back in the 1980s
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3d
Hyrox as a sport won't live this down for a while, and I doubt she ever will. She'll be the lady that shat herself doing Hyrox for the rest of her life.
eyekaytee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
Jesus Christ. Another embarrassment for Australia. I honestly don't know who's worse: Shitstirrer or Raygun.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2d
After the Scott Morrison at McDonalds story we all just assume aussies shit themselves. It's why your PM is always in a floatie.
oi! Bruce!
limelight79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
What's the good word, mate?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 8 pts · 3d
"Zesraj się a nie daj się". Living up to her polish roots.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
It's piss like a racehorse.
And that is after the race.
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2d
For the morbidly curious, here's some footage
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
There's always a price to be paid for obsessions.
allyoucaneatpotatoes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Interviewer: How do you feel after winning the Hyrox competition?
Joanna: Relieved!
Klostein@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 3d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvY2O1LBIe8
wjrii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Damn. Well done to the odd man who sings about poop, puke and pee.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 3d