Saw it live and it was super heartbreaking hearing her afterwards. Judo is a fair sport...sometimes gruesome, but fair nevertheless (except when you're not letting go after ref calls for mate many times over).
It's like Australia losing in the pool. If we don't bag 4 or 5 Gold medals, the coaches and most visible athletes get called failures on the front page of newspapers before being treated like leppers until the next Olympics.
I really believe that broadcasting this was an error, it was a little too much to hear and she’s should had some privacy, in our age, this will hunt her forever.
This Olympic judo feed has been terrible, the IJF would not have shown, they don't even show when the guys get hurt and go to the medics.
Also embarrassing that the feed doesn't have multiple languages audio and multiple video sources, I had to watch it together with mens split screen in the US, not sure how it is in the rest of the world and Adams didn't even comment on this.
on HBO Max I have English, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish rn. It varies though. I personally actually like the "No Dialogue" option. Choices probably differ based on provider. They also have one dedicated stream for each mat.
They have broadcasting rights in my country but there's been previous olympics where others have gotten it with far worse coverage.
Yeah, that's pretty fucked, especially how she carries herself. She doesn't look like she's the kind of person who is at all comfortable with her most vulnerable moments televised.
It's great to show people that you can cry when you care, but this coverage seems more invasive than representing and affirming expressing people's emotions. A good way to show this would've been a long shot from far away, but not straight up in front with her coach protecting/comforting her and trying to keep his focus off the camera.
If she wasn't a martial artist and was an ice skater, I feel like they would've had more modesty.
I was watching gymnastics today and it was the same, some girl was crying and they camera was all up in her face trying to get that RAW EMOSHUN for the tv audience
No error. She was so loud in her crying, everyone in the whole tent could hear her. Not to mention she disrupted the entire thing and caused the next match to be delayed.
Easy to say when you’ve never participated in high level competition. You’ll never work as hard as she did, you’ll never sacrifice the way she did. You’ll live unremarkably and be forgotten shortly afterwards.
I do t agree with the other guy, but this comment sucks. You don’t need to belittle and attack him for being foolish, saying they’ll never achieve anything. It’s hate on both sides, and it’s both unproductive and stupid
Well, well, well. I have been participating in jujutsu world championships for a while now.
"Well well well, I am a high-level competitor."
"Cool, olympian?"
Well no, but the worlds.
"Oh, you indeed are a high-level judoka!"
"Well no, I do BJJ."
"Ah okay, we nonetheless respect the experience of fellow blackbelts."
"About that... You do not really a blackbelt to do the worlds..."*
"Hm BUT, to shit on people, at least you are a full-time athlete with the same level of dedication and sacrifice as hers. Right?"
Crying is an emotional response to something big, good or bad. Just because you have the emotional depth of a dung beetle doesn’t mean the rest of the world shares your defect. Lots of top athletes cry. The only moron here is you
You’re a fucking moron. These athletes train for 4 years to represent their country and the entire weight of expectation of a country, especially japan, lies on the athlete. And they are not allowed to cry about a loss.
You’re one huge toxic AH and showing everyone you’re one.
Oh, shut up. Compete at a high level and then come back to us about the feeling. Numpty. Shout out to Abe, crying is important and unless you are at the level you could never understand that overwhelming feeling.
Goes to show you know nothing of Judo or the hardship someone faces getting to that level 4 year's training your ass off it's normal to feel high emotions like that
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u/BrianOnSoftware shodan Jul 28 '24
Saw it live and it was super heartbreaking hearing her afterwards. Judo is a fair sport...sometimes gruesome, but fair nevertheless (except when you're not letting go after ref calls for mate many times over).