• xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
    26·
    4 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.

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

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

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        4 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.

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
    13·
    4 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
    12·
    4 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.

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    4 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.