@TexasUberAlles  
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not gonna lie, she looks gorgeous
 
i wonder where the notion female weightlifters are man ugly…

@OptimusPrimevil  
olympic weightlifter  
 
 
Her favorite food is bone marrow.

@TexasUberAlles  
imagine pissing off an olympic weightlifter who lost and couldn’t take it.
 
throw helluva far!

@OptimusPrimevil  
Oh, there’s no doubt that self-doubt is a huge factor for top competitors; the ones who stay at it long enough to become legendary tend to be those who can brush that off and use a Second Place finish as incentive to go back out and try to have a good day on the field next time.
 
…I still wouldn’t pick a fight with an Olympic also-ran who never got anywhere near a medal, though. Kick you up into the trees, they will.

@TexasUberAlles  
That’s quite the ego-smasher for some though (“if i was just 1 nanosecond faster…”).

@WatermelonRat  
@OptimusPrimevil  
It’s such a weird psychology, since to even appear in Olympic competition is to be globally acknowledged as one of the greatest in the entire world at a particular sport. The difference in time between Gold and Silver is quite often measured in thousands of a second, and that clearly means that both competitors were of equal skill and talent, one of them just had a better day on the field than the other.
 
The phrase “…only won Bronze” doesn’t even make sense– it’s like, yeah, what a burden to have the whole world see that you were literally the third best human being on the planet at that event.

@WatermelonRat  
that makes sense (silver is a remind of ‘do better’, bronze is like ‘you did it!’).

I’ve read that people tend to be more satisfied with bronze medals than silver ones. With silver, people are disappointed that they didn’t get the gold, but with bronze, they’re just happy to have won something at all.

O_O Blinks multiple times “Are you bucking serious?”

She looks like she’s trying to signal someone in the crowd to set The Plan in motion.

She didn’t win no silver, she only lost the gold

silver medal…  
so first loser?