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👎🙅‍♀️🚫Setting an alarm to wake me up early to go to the gym

👍✅💯Setting an alarm to wake up in the middle of the night to raid the fridge stuff myself till I’m painfully full

#mystuff #I may have done this a few times before 👀#wg txt #wg writing #fit to fat #former athlete

competitive swimmer -> lazy glutton

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the winter olympics are almost a little bit painful for me because they make me miss my figure skating era but honestly I have all sorts of complicated feelings about my relationship to the sport in my life that I’ve never really talked to anyone about in much depth in the nearly 10 years since I quit. Figure skating used to be SUCH a huge part of my life and identity, but I stopped at age 13 or so, so to most people it would seem like it can’t have been that big in my life at all. How would my younger self feel about the fact that very few people I interact with today know that I was ever a skater when it was SO important to me back then? I’m sure this is a common experience for people in sports - especially competitive performance-based sports, but I’ve kind of never considered myself an “athlete” so I haven’t explored reaching out to others about that experience before. The winter olympics just make me wistful. I can’t make myself properly keep up with the skating because it makes me regretful and I think about all that could have been. I remember how it felt to be good at something and I miss that feeling. Part of me wants to get back into figure skating, but how does one do that as a 22-year old? Would I just be competing against middle schoolers? I don’t think I can bring myself to do that lol. But I know I would be so much better at the choreography and performance aspects of skating now that I have developed an increased self confidence that I didn’t have when I was still in the sport. Anyways, winter olympics stream of consciousness over, I think.

I realised my recent paralympics posts could be read as, "i hate the paralympics" kind of stuff and thats not what i wanted. Its important to be able to critisise the things we love, and the reason why i had so many strong feelings/opinions is because i do genuinely love and care about the Paralympics and disability sports as a whole. So with the paralympics due to start in a few weeks (the 28th of August) please, if you're able to, tune in, even if it's just for the highlights.

The Paralympics themselves have a lot of issues which I already talked about, but a good amount of those issues stem from a perceived lack of interest/care from the public and the idea that "no one will care" if things arent right for us. It's much harder to justify not paying the athletes as much as their abled counterparts when they get the same publicity, it's harder for the organisers and people behind the scenes to get away with mistreatment when there's more eyes watching and more pressure to fix the issues. The athletes deserve respect, they deserve equal pay (which mostly comes from advertisers/sponsors, which depend on viewership) and their hard work deserves to be seen as more than just a funny joke or inspiration porn tear-jerker. Engage with places that treat the event and participants with the dignity it deserves.

If you're in Australia, channel 9 will be showing and streaming the highlights for free, but Stan Sports will be showing everything from every event - which is an absolutely MASSIVE thing. The entire paralympics have never been televised in Australia before, its only ever been highlights and some of the games of the more well-known sports. It sucks its locked behind a premium paywall but so was the full Olympics coverage this year, so it's not fully unique to us at least.

As for international viewers, try and find where things are for you and if they aren't being shown, put pressure on your TV networks/streaming services to include it for next time, or to include similar things like the disabled events at the commonwealth games (for those in commonwealth countries) or other global disabled sporting events - which can include sports not in the Paralympics!