Nice PR apology. If she actually gave a shit she would have forfeit before it became an issue.
At least she didn’t double down or just keep quiet.
If she gave a “shit” you say?
She gave too much shit
Puma dropped her as a sponsor. It’s the only reason she backed off and forfeited.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
She got the runs, not the stops.
If I could give more than one upvote…well played!
Just don’t get that one dude who’ll stare you in the eye and try to outshit you
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!
posted Jul 25, 2018
Damn. Well done to the odd man who sings about poop, puke and pee.
multiple media outlets report that Wietrzyk’s major sponsor, Puma, is distancing itself from the athlete by quietly removing “Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA” clothing items from its website.
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On social media, people have flooded the brand’s comments with plays on “Puma,” such as “Pooma,” “Poopma” and “Poo Ma Pants.”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?
“Zesraj się a nie daj się”. Living up to her polish roots.
There’s always a price to be paid for obsessions.
Wietrzyk’s major sponsor, Puma, is distancing itself from the athlete by quietly removing “Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA” clothing items from its website. But a spokesperson for Puma says there’s “no change” to their partnership with Wietrzyk, telling CBC News in a statement Thursday that some landing pages were “unintentionally taken offline.”
On social media, people have flooded the brand’s comments with plays on “Puma,” such as “Pooma,” “Poopma” and “Poo Ma Pants.”
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.
Amazing.
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.
I can’t stop laughing
It was bad enough that athletes behind her were gagging and trying not to vomit. Now, hyrox did give those athletes time penalties.
Runners often have the shits, it’s just biology
Runners also run outdoors and don’t share equipment.
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.
Man at first I felt bad for her, but after reading the article…nah what a shitshow
Yeah if it was like a bit before the finish line I can see pushing through it, but it look like she got shit all over multiple pieces of equipment cause a huge healt risk. Ignoring all of that stepping out of the race cause you shit yourself. Would probably make this a lot less news worthy and you would at least have some sympathy from people.
Yah thats where I landed as well…you had so many chances to withdraw but instead made a literal mess everywhere…yah thats just nasty. 🤮
And no wonder she was first. Anyone behind her had to navigate equipment covered in diarrhea.
Literally a shit show
She may have been #1 but #2 was right on her heels.
And in her socks. Also her back and arms somehow.
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 dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.
That’s what you’re saying as a lay person, but imagine being a world-class athlete, in their prime, who’s been training for this stuff for decades. Race day shows up, you feel fine at the start, little queesiness, are you gonna let that stop you? She probably trusted a fart to be just a fart, and once that happens… well. Are you gonna run off in shame? Or will you adopt the mindset of “well, the worst already happened, might as well keep going.” She’s got athlete brain, she wants to win, she’s been training for years. I understand it.
I really think that the judges should’ve stepped in. Indoors? Shared equipment? Judges should’ve put a stop to that. People are kinda crazy at that high-end level of competition, they want to win at any cost. We just found out that shitting yourself in public was a cost she was willing to pay.
I understand that being a top tier athlete comes with a lot of ambition, determination and desire to win, but there is no single win worth being the woman who literally shat all over herself, the shared equipment, and indirectly her competitors, in the public eye for the rest of her career. That has to occur to someone in that position as well, no matter how in the zone they are.
Well you saw that in the immediate aftermath, she was still proud of her win, and she saw it as a moment of perseverance. It’s a terrible thing to shit oneself in public, but with her athlete brain, in the immediate aftermath, in the hospital, with all those endorphins and dopamine flooding her system, she saw it as a badge of honor. People are over here defending the actions of Lindsey Clancy whilst being in an altered mental state, I think we can give the same to an athlete that wanted to win at any personal cost.
But yeah, judges should’ve stepped in. If it was an outdoor marathon, and the worst thing that resulted from it was another runner potentially stepping in it… That’s one thing. But she got shit on the hands, butt, arms, of other competitors. That’s foul. Judges, who were not in an altered mental state, should’ve stopped her. They’re who we should really be looking at.
You’ll never get an unexpected and devastating 2nd place finish at your first Ironman triathlon with that attitude.
spoiler
___look up Julie Moss
Interviewer: How do you feel after winning the Hyrox competition?
Joanna: Relieved!
For the morbidly curious, here’s some footage
