Kaylia Nemour (ALG) wins silver on bars at the 2023 Antwerp World Championships. The 16-year-old earns the first World medal ever for Algeria and the first World medal ever for the continent of Africa.
#I’m just saying she looks real white.#qwhite interesting. that the one to “break glass ceilings” for the continent of Africa is a real real white passing person#not that I’m not happy for her that’s such an achievement in winning a medal but. I think giving her the cheers for that glass ceiling is.#hm.#leaves a bad taste in my mouth.#good for her tho really happy she got that medal! amazing
hi, do you know um. anything about franco-algerian history
There is a perfectly reasonable take on Nemour’s historic medal that would (correctly) point out that one of the REASONS Nemour can win medals is large part because she trains in France, and thus benefits from the infrastructure and coaching resources of the colonial empire.
But that is not the same thing as “people are celebrating Nemour’s victory because she’s white-passing.”
[Also, as a side note, it ignores the, uh, pretty obvious reason that gymnastics fans are excited about Nemour. Which is that she was systematically harassed by the French federation, who tried to block her from qualifying to the Olympics - and almost succeeded]
Kamila Valieva and Russia’s women’s figure skating team are incredibly dominant. The team is also incredibly controversial.
“Allegations of doping on top of an injury-laden sport like figure skating feel especially insidious. Valieva is 15, and her teammates aren’t much older. It brings up questions about their autonomy, and puts a spotlight on the adults responsible for these girls’ and young women’s well-being.”
remember that Kamila Valieva is a CHILD. That girl is 15.
The likelihood she had any say in this with who her coaches and federation are is very, very low. Many people caught up in the big doping scandal in the 2010s said they had no clue they were doping. There are reports that athletes get sent these drugs as a packets of powders or capsules and didn't know what they were.
Shes been branded the olympic gold favourite and the greatest of all time, AT 15!!! Thats stressful enough. And now she's lost it and is going to be attacked because of something that likely wasn't in her control.
Blame the adults, eteri tudberidze and team, Russian figure skating federation, the International skating union for letting this go on and infact giving eteri awards. Do not blame the minor.
When I said I wanted a figure skating scandal at the Games, I meant something along the lines of a drunk judge spilling tea on bribery, not a 15 year old getting disqualified because her famous for abuse coach was drugging her.
Elle est l’une des gymnastes qui aura marqué la décennie dans le monde entier. La roumaine Larisa Iordache a annoncé, jeudi 16 décembre, qu’
google translation of (the french translation of) the interview larisa gave to a podcast about 2021 and her retirement.
...after taking the time to think it over, Larisa Iordache made the decision that seemed to be the best for her. “I asked myself for a moment to think, a moment that was very long and painful, but I made a decision for myself, for my health because I could surely have been able to risk a lot more, such as more severe pain, other injuries.”
“In Tokyo, it was a bit of a roller coaster, ” she confides at Mihai Morar's microphone. “Everyone was happy and encouraged me. But hen people heard that I would attend only the final beam, they have questioned the merit I had vis-à-vis this place I had won, calling me. Asking why I went to Tokyo to shame Romania because I was only going to do a one-minute score before I got home, and all of it on state and federation spending. Something deep inside me was telling me not to listen to these people and I continued to train. When qualifying day came I had no idea how it was going to go”, she explains.
Larisa would therefore only compete on the beam. After 3 hours of waiting when she had time to think about it and go through all the states, comes her turn. “I did a very good complete, she analyzes, but I rushed a little before the exit. I was not on the axis on the first two elements and when I started to enter the twist, I told myself that if I could not finish the triple twist well, the element would be downgraded and I would then lose the final by 2-3 tenths. (…) As I didn't have enough height, I forced the finish and that's when I felt a crack in my ankle . (…) I was very scared. I lifted my foot and introduced myself .”
At first, the multiple European medalist didn't feel the pain right away, but then her ankle started to swell and the pain got worse. That same evening, she went to the clinic located in the Olympic Village. “I was told I had a 4th degree sprain. Probably it was difficult at that time, due to the size of my ankle, to see that my ligament was actually broken. They also told me that the cartilage was no longer too present.” A few months later, the diagnosis will be much more serious with a broken ligament, two others in very bad condition and the beginning of osteoarthritis.
In Tokyo, Larisa tries to forget the pain in order to focus on her beam final (which she managed to win despite her somewhat hazardous exit) and where she was aiming for a medal. Especially since 7 days separated the qualifications from the final. Seven days which, according to her, allowed her to get back on her feet in order to ensure her rank. She then followed the sessions at the physiotherapist, bodybuilding and training on the beam. But she couldn't walk. “The last 4 days I started to feel that it would be difficult because as soon as I took off my splint to run or walk, I felt indescribable pain. I had stomach pain and I had the urge to vomit because the pain was so strong.” Despite the pain, she continued to believe in the Olympic medal she had come for.
“That day, I had prepared myself, I was full of anti-inflammatory drugs. I said to myself, today I am participating in the competition, I will fight for the final e. But while getting ready, putting on makeup, doing my hair I wondered deep inside me why I was doing this because in a way I knew that I couldn't because the pain was very hard to bear. But I said to myself that I was going to get to the end of things because that's what I was taught to do: exhaust all possible solutions until the last”, she confides at Mihai Morar's microphone.
Larisa therefore went to the competition hall, trained but the pain increased as she warmed up. She could barely put her foot on the ground. She tries a wheel on the ground but feels bad. Her trainer asks her if she can continue and get on the beam, she replies that she was going to try. Except that when it was up to her to get on the apparatus, she couldn't. She could no longer walk and the pain had become too intense. “At that moment, the coaches told me that I had done everything in my power for Romania. They told me they knew how hard I had endured the pain and how hard I had fought. They said to me: 'Don't worry anymore, we are going to offer this chance to a person who may be lucky, you have to be FairPlay. I always wanted to be correct, so I pulled out of the final.” The final started an hour later.
If her coaches, the Molodovan couple, have always supported her, on the other hand, she admits to having been hurt by the reaction of the Romanian Federation. “Their reaction was to ask how I was able to get over my kidney pain (which she had in Basel during qualifying for the Games, Editor's note) but not over an ankle pain?”, She explains before adding: “I just wanted to be asked if I was okay, if I was feeling good physically, psychologically. I personally did not receive any calls from the federation after my return from Tokyo. It only happened a few days ago when I decided to have the operation. The federation contacted me through my coaches. It doesn't seem normal to me. I tried to ask them for a chat but it didn't happen.”
Today, after having been operated on on her injured ankle, the seventh operation of her career, she made the decision to end her career and not to push until the Olympic Games in Paris, in 2024. “I withdraws me with a peaceful mind,” she still delivers to Mihai Morar's microphone. “I would no longer have any intention of testing myself psychologically by wondering if I could have done more. Everything I have done this year and last year when I returned to training, I did my best. I have learned from all the hardships I have been able to go through. Today I am at peace with myself.”
so here it is, the off-axis dismount that got her into the final and inadvertently ended up being the finalizing injury of her career... 😥😥😥
La începutul acestei luni, mai precis pe data de 3 decembrie, gimnasta Larisa Iordache suferea o nouă intervenție la picior, într-o clinică
GUYS THIS IS NOT A DRILL this article says lari is retiring forreal and will coach with the moldovans
there is pain of course but most of all i am relieved, she's been through so much, fought tooth and nail as far as a 2nd olympic beam final and should take care of herself at this point 💛💛💛
it smells like something that should not be consumed by humans. it smells like a jack-o-lantern that’s rotted after four days on the front porch
and it tastes…it tastes…
so, there are good ways to make something pumpkin-flavored, around this time of year. pumpkin spice is fine in a latte or dessert, but for pasta or soup, you go savory - onion, garlic, salt and pepper, and you’ve got yourself a decent meal!
but this…
I don’t know if I can finish eating this. I was barely able to start eating it, because the smell is so nauseating, putting it in my mouth feels wrong.
it’s salty, but also horribly sweet, and tastes strongly of cinnamon and nutmeg. when you take a bite, at first it tastes like nothing - but a few chews in, you can feel the awful sticky-sweet spice residue taking up residence in your mouth.
I hate this!
what malicious focus group told nissin that this was a good idea? how many people tried this product and thought it was good enough to put on shelves?
why does it have sugar, brown sugar, and sucralose in it? wasn’t one enough, you sick bastards?
-100/10. worst thing I’ve eaten this year. and that’s saying something, because I eat a lot of garbage.
