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2011-12-06 3:18 PM
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FoggyGoggles - 2011-12-06 2:07 PM Unfortunately this subject rears its head every once in a while. A female athlete gets some notoriety, is in amazing shape and gets criticized for being too (fill in criticism here.) I remember Olympic swimmer Dana Torres going through similar scrutiny in the early 2000's.

I would crawl through broken glass naked just to..........

Nevermind.    I get flushed just reading her name. BTW, it is Dara.  Not Dana.



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2011-12-06 3:20 PM
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crowny2 - 2011-12-06 4:18 PM

FoggyGoggles - 2011-12-06 2:07 PM Unfortunately this subject rears its head every once in a while. A female athlete gets some notoriety, is in amazing shape and gets criticized for being too (fill in criticism here.) I remember Olympic swimmer Dana Torres going through similar scrutiny in the early 2000's.

I would crawl through broken glass naked just to..........

Nevermind.    I get flushed just reading her name. BTW, it is Dara.  Not Dana.

She's amazing. And ripped. And super-fast!

2011-12-06 3:54 PM
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"My prevailing memory of Olga Korbut was of a woman in tears, not triumph. I loved Olga because she slipped and failed, while the perfect ten of 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci left me unmoved.  She was too far away, too impossible to emulate. Too robotic. And far too boring"

THIS bugs me most about the article, and I feel it is how many people are these days.  They celebrate failure and try to knock down those that are successful. 
2011-12-06 3:57 PM
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ratherbeswimming - 2011-12-06 3:20 PM
crowny2 - 2011-12-06 4:18 PM

FoggyGoggles - 2011-12-06 2:07 PM Unfortunately this subject rears its head every once in a while. A female athlete gets some notoriety, is in amazing shape and gets criticized for being too (fill in criticism here.) I remember Olympic swimmer Dana Torres going through similar scrutiny in the early 2000's.

I would crawl through broken glass naked just to..........

Nevermind.    I get flushed just reading her name. BTW, it is Dara.  Not Dana.

She's amazing. And ripped. And super-fast!

And absolutely, positively smoking hot. 

2011-12-06 3:58 PM
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2011-12-06 4:17 PM
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I wasn't athletic in school mostly because I was weak at the sports I knew of, bit I was a lot better at academic subjects than many (not all) of the athletes around me. It wasn't until I was in my late 20s that I became athletic, and I now regret not having been involved in endurance sports earlier. And, amazingly, I'm a (somewhat) well-adjusted adult (sorta), despite the alleged damage to my self-esteem from dodge ball games and being picked on by football players. 

And this isn't going to be considered deviant by anyone here, but I think athletic women are freaking hawt! I'm not dating a cyclist for nothing (body and mind, body AND mind!!)

2011-12-06 7:40 PM
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I don't mind some of her points. In some schools sports are bad and not something to subject young people to. I know in Hockey in Canada there are a lot of people who have just pulled their kids out of it due to the competitive nature.

I agree with her point that "The sinewy arm is desired these days by young women not because they have their eye on a medal or because they merely want to be healthy. No, the sinewy limb has become an end in its own right." Now there is a place for this, like figure competitions... I have a difficult time saying it is bad, but it isn't really good, at least in the way that I have seen it represented sometimes by teenage girls, who aren't really training for a sport but for some ideal of beauty instead. Sometimes it is quite disturbing.

2011-12-06 10:33 PM
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jmk-brooklyn - 2011-12-06 8:22 AM
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powerman - 2011-12-06 9:40 AM Simply not worth a reply. the world is full of stupid people. Please do not encourage them.

Precisely.  With every Facebook share, Tweet, post on a forum, the author of the next ridiculous article is further encouraged.

 

 

Yeah. Leave it. Haters gonna hate. This is a publicity-grab anyway. Don’t get sucked in.

 

2011-12-06 11:47 PM
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tmwelshy - 2011-12-06 10:33 PM
jmk-brooklyn - 2011-12-06 8:22 AM
Goosedog - 2011-12-06 9:11 AM

powerman - 2011-12-06 9:40 AM Simply not worth a reply. the world is full of stupid people. Please do not encourage them.

Precisely.  With every Facebook share, Tweet, post on a forum, the author of the next ridiculous article is further encouraged.

 

 

Yeah. Leave it. Haters gonna hate. This is a publicity-grab anyway. Don’t get sucked in.

 

Excellent drive by, Welshey!

2011-12-07 1:10 AM
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Everything I learned about life and how to be a good person, I learned from my youth sports.

How to win gracefully

How to lose gracefully

How to be an individual and part of a team

How to take criticism and how to give kudos

How do listen to authority

and

How to do and be the best person I can be

Thank you Mr Luttenger, and Coach Funicello

I cry that the youth of today do not have the school sports to keep them out of trouble and help form the foundation for a productive and healthy adult life.



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