Interviewer: How do you feel after winning the Hyrox competition?
Joanna: Relieved!
She thought it was a competition of having the runs
The youths told her the coolest kids have drip
She heard she could make money streaming
You’re terrible. Take my updoot.
Am I the only one impressed that she beat everyone else while shitting? Guess everyone else was grossed out.
So much worse than it sounds. This was an indoor race and it wasn’t just running. They used “communal equipment such as ropes, sandbags, rowing machines and medicine balls”
She finished first, so there was poop smeared on everything for the racers behind her. She ruined everyone’s race and potentially got people sick.
If it had been intentional, it would have been a brilliant strategy - take an early lead and shit on everything to slow everyone else down.
Runners often have the shits, it’s just biology
It’s why they’re runners – they frequently have to shit without much warning, so they’ve gotten good at running (to the nearest bathroom or waste receptacle)
True, let’s not conflate cause and effect ig.
I wonder what Usain Bolt’s diet must have been 🤔
I heard he literally ate McDonalds before all big races because on a few occasions nice restaurants gave him diarrhea and he wouldn’t take the chance again. Better to have poor but extremely consistent food.
Runners also run outdoors and don’t share equipment.
For the morbidly curious, here’s some footage
She may have been #1 but #2 was right on her heels.
And in her socks. Also her back and arms somehow.
Holy… She kept going even after the diarrhea started? How did they not disqualify her once there was shit running down her legs? And the nerve to make all the other participants touch your shit just to win a race is something else. I know athletes need a competitive mindset but thats just disrespectful.
How did they not disqualify her once there was shit running down her legs?
From what I read elsewhere, it sounded like a situation the officials were simply unprepared to deal with, and there was nothing in the rules about it. Just not something that has happened before or had been thought of as a possibility. I have the impression this is a newer sport, not something that has been around for decades or even centuries, like running.
“Ain’t no rule that says a dog cain’t play basketball while they has diarrhea!”
It’s CrossFit. It’s just got a new name
Hyrox is like CrossFit, but with less emphasis on events and movements where technique/coordination/timing are critical. Things like Olympic lifting and kipping pull ups aren’t part of the competition.
Don’t runners shit themselves commonly? I’ve seen lots of marathon runners shit themselves. You’d think they’d have something prepared.
Probably. I can imagine them like “what do we do? Spitting on the equipment is against the rules but it doesnt say anything about shitting”
I guess it happens to marathon runners all the time, but they’re generally on public streets outdoors (with the airflow advantages that implies) and the worst case is stepping in it and getting it on their shoes. This is a much more up-close sport (and indoors), like to the point where other competitors might have needed to do pushups in the same spot she did them. They tore out the carpet after her race.
It doesn’t help that she posted “Go hard or go home. A win is a win” while getting an IV immediately afterwards.
It doesn’t help that she posted “Go hard or go home. A win is a win” while getting an IV immediately afterwards.
Yeah I think she didnt exactly have a clear mind after winning a professional competition while sick and leaking diarrhea everywhere. But yeah it does make her sound very arrogant and disrespectful.
For me, it’s always a race when I have diarrhea
Nice of her to apologize, but this is really on the officials and the organization for not pulling her out.
High-level athletes are always going to want to compete. They’ll play through injury and discomfort to win. If it were up to them, they would and do put themselves in danger of further injury just to get out there and play. That’s why coaches and staff are the ones who make decisions to bench players for injury and it’s not left up to the players themselves.
I agree, it’s not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don’t think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.
I feel sorry for these people when I read stories like these. They’re pushing themselves so hard physically and emotionally, their head’s in a weird place, their judgement is off and they end up humiliating themselves on the world stage. Virtually the entire world. The worst kind of fame. This person’s life is over. They will forever be the point of ridicule by everyone.
Can you imagine waking up every day, your career is totally over, having to face that. Knowing that the whole world has seen what you did in the heat of the moment. You have let down every one who supported you, your family, and failed your life’s goal in the most embarrassing way possible. To hide yourself away in miserable shame is the best you could possibly hope for.
And it just doesn’t go away, now you have to get on camera to apologize and explain it away. You have to make statements. You have to watch clips of it over and over. Everywhere you go people are talking about you in hushed mocking wispers. Everything you do will have an asterisk near it. One fucked up moment overshadows everything else you will ever do from here on out. For the rest of your life.
That’s a hard burden to carry.
Sucks that the athlete is getting all the blame when the event organizers are the ones who had the most responsibility to prevent this. They should’ve disqualified her as soon as they saw the feces running down her leg. It retrospect it’s easy for her to see that this was gross and inappropriate, but during the heat of the competition the burden should’ve been on someone from Hyrox to pull her aside and tell her she is disqualified because she’s causing a safety hazard for the other competitors.
Apparently, in her mind this was a Michael Jordan with the flu situation. She has pictures afterwards in a hospital bed getting an IV and bragging about how you have to do what you have to do.
Now all that said, I’m a little sympathetic, as apparently shitting yourself during marathons and the like is not uncommon, but this was some weird crossfit thing where you are indoors and constantly getting down on the floor for various reasons and using provided equipment, so anyone who came after her was wading through her poopies. I think you have to be capable of being very self-centered, at least temporarily, to be a truly elite competitive athlete, but somebody should have thought this one through better.
Well, it’s no one’s obligation to validate someone, or be friends with them. When you put your entire self-worth in the hands of random people, this is exactly what happens. They treat you like a broken, tainted object.
The key is to pick a path where you are not well known, and don’t give a shit about other people and what they have to offer.
It’s piss like a racehorse.
And that is after the race.
It’s wild that she just kept on competing. Call me crazy but once I shit my pants in front of thousands of people I immediately get the fuck out if there.
She got the runs, not the stops.
And that’s why you’re not a champion! Every winner shits their pants!
Good enough for POTUS is good enough for my household.
USA! USA! USA!
WE’RE #2!
many long distance cyclists piss and shit in their knicks.
I’ll never look at those Spandex’d cyclists the same way 😶
It’s why they’re always so butthurt about traffic on roadways.
Just don’t get that one dude who’ll stare you in the eye and try to outshit you
Puma dropped her as a sponsor. It’s the only reason she backed off and forfeited.
“I love my sponsor so much that I even Puma pants!”
Okay in a 14 comment thread this is the second to make me chuckle. Saved.
POO-MA!
Wish I could take credit for that one.
Too bad they weren’t known for pants, the Puma Pants Company would have loved to sponsor her.
Jesus Christ. Another embarrassment for Australia. I honestly don’t know who’s worse: Shitstirrer or Raygun.
After the Scott Morrison at McDonalds story we all just assume aussies shit themselves. It’s why your PM is always in a floatie.
oi! Bruce!
What’s the good word, mate?
Hyrox as a sport won’t live this down for a while, and I doubt she ever will. She’ll be the lady that shat herself doing Hyrox for the rest of her life.
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