#triple jump

[beatrack92]

Taisiya Dmitriyeva 🇷🇺

2025 A.V. Ignatiev Memorial (Cheboksary)

[elenitrack]

Kira Wittmann 🇩🇪

2025 European Indoor Championssjips (Apeldoorn)

[blkmagicwoahman]

A historic first for Thea Lafond, who delivers the first ever Olympic medal to Dominica. 🥇🇩🇲

Lafond dominates the Triple Jump with a 15.02m national record

CONGRATS 💛💚🖤❤️🤍

[misscammiedawn]

One thing I love about video games above all other mediums is the ability to immerse into the experience.

I once saw a post about Disco Elysium, a story that begins with a human disaster recovering from the bender of a lifetime. The game will let you indulge in all forms of drugs and there's no detriment in gameplay for it spare for the fact it can be noticed and observed by your in-game partner and negatively impact his opinion. The game has an addiction system that is entirely based on giving you a choice that seems attractive and letting you pick it.

I never interacted with the drugs in Disco Elysium. I wanted my Harry to be clean. The game does not praise me for this, mind. As far as the fiction is concerned Harry has been clean for 2 weeks maximum and has had relapses before. I made the entire experience more difficult for myself by denying stat upgrades because I wanted to play a version of the character who is trying to get better.

In Metal Gear Solid V, a game which does not in any way shape or form involve roleplaying mechanics, I have a Venom who starts off as Big Boss but over the course of the experience his (our IRL) skill ceiling forces him to start giving up the perfect stealth/no-kill facade. The game does not punish you for it (S-Ranks do not require No Kill or Perfect Stealth) and I am simply not a good enough player to get through A Quiet Exit without bursting out the rocket launcher.

In a game like Celeste, the narrative is about climbing an impossible mountain that weens a player in on the experience one screen at a time. It is the most forgiving video game I have ever played. It urges a player to keep trying. To take their time. Take as many tries as they like. What was once a level that took 40 deaths to get through becomes a level where I collect Golden Strawberries. The grind that Madeline makes becomes the grind that the player takes and you share the experience (doubly so if you play while on HRT. Triple if also going through therapy for DID).

It's one thing for the "Intended Experience" mingling with player experience. Sometimes a game that you can only interact with violence will call you out for only interacting via violence. But when a game pulls you in so heavily that you and the character are acting in unison and your decisions are made not for mechanical reasons, not because the game guides you down a path, not because it is the most effective way of playing? But because it is the experience that you are creating for yourself and it belongs to you and you alone?

Oh that's the sweet spot.

Our climb up Mount Celeste is as unique to me as our gender transition is. Our decision to reject the title of Big Boss and become Venom Snake was our own. Our refusal to dose as Harry was ours.

In essence it's no different than selecting the top route or the bottom route in a Sonic game. One is more difficult, one has access to a special stage, one is faster, one is an area we've not explored in a while, one has more rings... the list of variables is vast but they all contribute to a decision that is made in the moment and on the fly.

But gosh, when the choice is filtered through my in game avatar? Fuck it just hits right.

Edit: Wynn is upset I insinuated she did not have the skill to do pacifist runs in A Quiet Exit. Note this is a Dawn Post and should only reflect Dawn gameplay.

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[the-irreverend]

Forgive me for venting here, but one of the things that irritates me the most about the media coverage of the Olympics is how it overlooks all the medalists (and athletes) from countries that don't have as much geopolitical influence/affluence.

Wouldn't it be great to see more recognition and support given to athletes such as the gold medalist Thea LaFond, who won Dominica's first-ever medal in the triple jump? Or what about Julien Alfred, who won Saint Lucia's first-ever medal in the 200m? Or Daniel Varela de Pina who won Cape Verde's first in the flyweight? Or what about Olympians from places like Mongolia, Jordan, Botswana, Grenada, or Panama? Or what about the Olympians from the Refugee Olympic Team?

So it's disappointing that extraordinary athletes like them (and the history they made) end up being just as overlooked as the countries they're from.

[adeledazeeeem]

DOUBLE BRONZE! 🥉🥉🇺🇸

Jasmine Moore is the first American woman (and second woman ever) to medal in both the long jump and triple jump at the same Olympic Games

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