They can’t all be Kerri Strugg.
It’s okay to fail.
Should she be thrown under the bus? No.
Should quitting on her team in the clutch be celebrated and admired? Hell no.
They can’t all be Kerri Strugg.
It’s okay to fail.
Should she be thrown under the bus? No.
Should quitting on her team in the clutch be celebrated and admired? Hell no.
She quit. Now she wants attn: The End
Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
"Wow, often imitated but never duplicated. No one can do it like the master. My hat is off to you DRDUCK!"
Don’t think she quit although that was my initial reaction. After listening about her story she basically said she sort of “went mental”. I remember when the 2nd baseman from the Dodgers (Steve Sax) couldn’t throw to first any more. He mentally locked up. Same kind of thing here I believe. An E4 won’t kill you but landing on you head and neck will. I think she actually was so out of whack she thought she would keep them from winning any kind of medal.
Do don’t become an Olympian by being a quitter or being anything other than mentally tough… she deserves at least the benefit of the doubt.
"The best things in life make you sweaty"
- Edgar Allen Poe
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us...”
― Henry David Thoreau
I can tell you the mental struggle is no joke. I definitely don’t consider myself or didn’t consider myself a world class athlete, but I’d like to think I competed at a pretty high level. It jacked me up.
I remember it getting so bad in high school when I played quarterback that I would forget the plays or what route the receiver was suppose to run. My brain would be running 1000 miles an hour and no matter what I did, I couldn’t slow it down.
Playing baseball was tolerable because I was a pitcher and was able to more or less control the speed of the game. Even then, I could calm my head. On one hand it drove me because I was terrified to fail but on the other hand it was overwhelming. I managed it until the beginning of my sophomore year. I had just gotten drafted but decided to come back to school for another year. Couple weeks into practice and I started having major panic issues. I’m not talking being a little nervous, I’m talking not wanting to get out of bed.
Over the next few years I continued to play but I’ll be honest, it took the love of the game away. I was miserable and really just in survival mode.
I wish I would have gotten help in my early years (middle school/high school). I probably had the issue even before that.
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Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I try real hard not to judge a person's actions. If they are within my sphere of influence, I will try to understand their thought process, but this is far outside my scope. Hope she figures her shit out.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
I had target panic before. I have watched grown men break down with buck fever.
She said she got lost in one routine.
Olympic level stuff is usually about mental toughness.
Same with elite in most sports. I cannot begin to imagine.
Couple doobies will calm all that shit down.
But why quit at this point? Mental issues don't start overnight. Quitting any other time wouldn't have been as press worthy. Does the anthem also give her anxiety?
"They are who we thought they were"
You can dress a fat chick up, but you cant fix stupid
In her interview before she bowed out, I gathered she basically said at the age of 24 she was scared now. Fear! I don't think this was political at all but I haven't kept up with her since the competition.
Low country redneck who moved north
Not making light of mental illness. My father has struggled with it my entire life. But his ass stood for the anthem at every dirt track race, ball game, rodeo you name it
"They are who we thought they were"
You can dress a fat chick up, but you cant fix stupid
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