Culer first, human second

he/him | Adult | Sports shit or whatever | xiaomydear on ao3

[igauff]

Welcome to my blog

Hi I'm William I post and reblog anything sports related but mostly football, formula 1, and tennis!

More about me and my blog below the cut <3

About my blog

My favourites in each sport:

Football:

Fc Barcelona (both men's and women's team)

Bayern München

Formula 1:

Mercedes (but fuck Toto Wolff)

George Russell, Oscar Piastri, Franco Colapinto, Arvid Lindblad, Gabriel Bortoleto

Tennis:

Jannik Sinner, Flavio Cobolli, Matteo Berrettini, Ben Shelton, Carlos Alcaraz

Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff, Iga Świątek, Victoria Mboko

Motogp:

Ducati, Marc Márquez

(mostly just here for the vibes and bikes though)

PWHL:

Ottawa charge

*small note, I barely watch hockey because of the difference in time zones for me for most matches!

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My tags:

#will liveblogs -> all my liveblogging

#the q -> any queued/scheduled posts

#thoughts -> rambling about something

#personal -> self-explanatory I think

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About me

University student studying civil engineering, I mostly watch sports in my free time but I also write, you can find all my works on my ao3 and yeah ig that's it :)

[oscarjackpiastri81]

I hope George has some sort of sports psychologist 🥺

[maxxverstappen]

i hope george has some sort of gun

[igauff]

I'M DONE WITH FINALSS❗️❗️❗️

[igauff]

Ok so in the tags of this I said if my gpa is higher than 3.3 I'm showing hole and I just got my grades sent to me it's actually 3.29 so no hole

[igauff]

Ok changed my username from 6barcamercedes3 to igauff (iga + gauff) so yay

[robinfrinjs]

Doriane Pin on Instagram:

24 Hours of Le Mans Edition. A way of telling the story behind the little girl who dreamed of becoming a racing driver and competing in the world's greatest races. A dream, but also a strong desire to make it come true.

Le Mans, you are special.

And even more special because every single one of you has a word of support written on this helmet.

I can't wait to wear it on track and create new memories at this incredible race ♥️🏁

[ccccccchaozhang]

Wings 🪽🩵

[igauff]

Yall would still recognise me if I changed my username right? I don't want that Mercedes in there anymore 😭

[upsetalert]

iga congratulating only the runner up like that’s my girl

[paucubarsisimp]

hii everyone !! i js made a community for the upcoming world cup ! please join so we can yap all together <33

world cup 2026 ! • Community on Tumblr

yapping about the world cup!!

[saintcedes]

[gamesetmachac]

just saw some fanart. question for the audience: do tennis fans know carlos is white

[russellius]

😞...

[russelliv]

George still keeping the drivers safe even through all the stress of the race <333 our GPDA director!!

[rgrfederer]

and i don't want to hear ever again that assault (in any way) accusations can ruin a man's career

[anisimoved]

like what is there even to say? an abuser who shouldn’t be allowed to play won and now he’s going to be turned into some story about resilience and perseverance. the world cup is starting soon and i genuinely don’t have enough fingers to count how many abusers and assaulters will be out there playing and being celebrated.

women’s suffering means nothing. i’m just so fucking tired of it. i feel angry, helpless and exhausted watching the same thing happen over and over again

[mousemannation]

as we come closer to the likely outcome i think i have figured out what i want to say about this. this being zverev winning a slam.

i understand that winning a slam comes with an amount of pedigree within tennis, and it’s an achievement that comes with a lot of publicity and lauding. on this level i understand the frustration with him winning one.

what i dont agree with is the idea that this fundamentally changes anything. zverev is good at tennis, this is not a moral judgement. he has been a serious contender for many years. as much as it feels vindicating to call him a choker, to make fun of him for not winning one- that is ultimately a selfish feeling because it doesn’t serve any purpose. and in some ways directly obfuscates and trivialises the real issue.

obviously, i don’t think making a joke here and there is necessarily wrong, but i do sometimes worry the overwhelming amount of posts treating players beating him like a game is diluting the seriousness. the posts that only ever call him the rat or another nickname, the posts congratulating people for “exterminating him”- i worry these miss the point. he isn’t some funny little issue, he’s a serial domestic abuser. whether or not a player beats him isn’t them doing a favour for women or for viewers who don’t like him, there is no morality in it.

if it’s more important for you to be able to make fun of him for not reaching some arbitrary point of success than it is for him to be recognised and face consequences for being a serial abuser than your priorities are wrong. i don’t actually think anyone is doing this on purpose, but i think it’s easy to get caught up in our own anger, our own desire to feel better short term.

the first allegations came out i believe in 2020, if zverev had won a slam before that it would not have changed the fact that he’s an abuser. if he’d won every slam since it would not change that fact. on the other hand, if he lost every slam first round it would also not change anything. the truth of it though is that he does make deep runs frequently. that’s why he’s been top 5 for so long, and him being top 5 for so long has already made him a face of men’s tennis regardless of his slam success.

no longer being able to say he’s a choker or he’s a slamless loser or whatever insult in that vein you want is not even remotely relevant when the real reason people should be upset is that he is, once again, a serial domestic abuser.

maybe flavio pulls off a miracle and he wins this one, zverev will continue to be a contender in the next and the next and the next. the issue has never been that he might win one, but that he’s able to compete at all.

[igauff]

This is so fucked up I almost can't believe it, I hope it feels as undeserved as it is