Well, it wasn’t so much the shitting. She could have handled it right then and nobody would have heard about it
It was the smearing shit across the entire venue, other athletes, and all the equipment, to the point where they had to do an overnight emergency carpet replacement. Then going home and bragging about it in a now deleted post, humiliating both Hyrox and her (now former) sponsor Puma as the internet was flooded with thousands of shocking pictures and videos
I need some context - or perhaps I don't?
idk what hyrox is but it sounds like drain cleaner
An Australian shitting all over china, you can't make this shit up...
yeah, a long history of public shitting at strenuous events, particularly women. Her issues was it's all over the indoor events track and equipment,
Wietrzyk isn’t alone: other public mishaps published over the past three decades include the 1998 London Marathon winner, Catherina McKeirnan, who dodged cameras along the way while suffering several bouts of diarrhoea. Paula Radcliffe, the winner of the 2005 London Marathon, wasn’t so lucky; she was publicly caught relieving herself of debilitating stomach pains by the road near the finish line, blaming it on too much gluten-free pasta and grilled salmon the night before. In 2024 the US athlete Taylor Knibb won the Dubai T100 despite having to relieve herself during the race, uttering the immortal line to a camera operator: “I just shit myself … so can you not get my ass? Thank you.”
I understand this to an extent, but not the post competition behavior.
I was a runner in secondary school. You're taught to push through pain and discomfort to reach the finish. If 24 year old me shat myself whilst participating in the Olympics, I can imagine possibly panicking and deciding to continue. You have to make instantaneous decisions with unwavering followthrough whilst competing as second guessing can make the difference between ranking first or third. You don't overthink, just decide, execute, and move forward.
I cannot imagine bragging about it later on social media. I'd be mortified. Hell, I AM mortified for her.
If I'm remembering correctly it was Thor Björnsson who once said "Sometimes you shit yourself. It happens. And then you come back the next day and lift again, and it might happen again, but that's okay."
She literally gave a shit and now people are mad. What a fucking circus.
Is Puma a nuclear superpower?
Gary Lineker once shat himself at the world cup. Don't recall him ever having to apologise.
One girl, one hyrox.
So, I realise being in a gym makes this far worse than, say, an endurance athlete, but do you think part of the reason she was given so much shit (lol) is because nobody takes Hyrox seriously?
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