Reddit gems

[MaryClare]

I feel that after sleeve-gate these absolute gems deserve their own thread.

 

[onodian]

I have high hopes for this thread

 

[Passion]

Not from Reddit, but a couple months ago I googled the SV of a FTY and this is what AI came up with at the top of the page:

It was so wrong in so many ways I saved it lol. I reported it as bad info and it gives a more correct answer now, but this is what it was.

 

[onodian]

So now we know how Laurie gets her facts

 

[RedBirdie]

That is spectacular, in a flaming trainwreck sort of way.

 

[barefoot]

It takes every ounce of restraint in my body sometimes not to reply to these kinds of Reddit threads (I JUST saw the first one in this thread). "Do you not have access to Google? Do you know what the word 'alternate' means in general? You're familiar enough with WAG to know the team members' names, but you don't know how a competition works?"

 

[Hatsumomo]

Posts like that make me want to respond to tell them to do some basic research before anybody spends the time and effort to explain things to them.

 

[KristyJ]

It takes every ounce of restraint in my body sometimes not to reply to these kinds of Reddit threads (I JUST saw the first one in this thread). "Do you not have access to Google? Do you know what the word 'alternate' means in general? You're familiar enough with WAG to know the team members' names, but you don't know how a competition works?"

To be fair, maybe they put the question to the AI

 

[Puffin]

You know I'd totally forgotten that Emma Malabuyo was a non-travelling alternate for team USA in Tokyo

 

[irichluck21]

Malabuyo traveled to Tokyo along with DiCello, Wong, and Eaker. They were able to take 5 due to COVID but never actually named a 5th.
Malabuyo and DiCello became the only alternates because Eaker tested positive for COVID and Wong, being her roommate was out as well due to close contact.

 

[Crow]

In the USA TF lineup thread (Hezley's not doing any events in TF):

Edit: On second thought, I guess this is a semi-legit question. Participants in racing sports don't get medals if their teammates place in the finals. So I can sort of understand the reasoning that other mostly-individual sports might work the same way.

 

[dweiss324]

You know I'd totally forgotten that Emma Malabuyo was a non-travelling alternate for team USA in Tokyo

I literally got corrected by a non gym friend yesterday, I was like "she was never an alternate what are you talking about"

 

[Jmanda86]

In the USA TF lineup thread (Hezley's not doing any events in TF):
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Edit: On second thought, I guess this is a semi-legit question. Participants in racing sports don't get medals if their teammates place in the finals. So I can sort of understand the reasoning that other mostly-individual sports might work the same way.

But don’t all the swimming athletes in a relay get a medal? They don’t go on the podium if they are on the team for prelims and not finals but I always thought they got a medal.

 

[makam]

But don’t all the swimming athletes in a relay get a medal? They don’t go on the podium if they are on the team for prelims and not finals but I always thought they got a medal.

They aren't alternates in swimming, they were just the qualifications shift. But if you were in the relay pool but not chosen to swim, no medal. But Hezly will be on the floor with them and will be on the podium if they medal -- she competed, she medals with the team.

 

[MaryClare]

But don’t all the swimming athletes in a relay get a medal? They don’t go on the podium if they are on the team for prelims and not finals but I always thought they got a medal.

I don’t know about swimming, but in track, the athletes that ran in the prelims get a medal.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

Relay swimmers and sprinters who compete in the heats get medals, they just don’t stand on the podium. This has always been the case.

 

[JaJa]

In the USA TF lineup thread (Hezley's not doing any events in TF):
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Edit: On second thought, I guess this is a semi-legit question. Participants in racing sports don't get medals if their teammates place in the finals. So I can sort of understand the reasoning that other mostly-individual sports might work the same way.

Its not semi-legit for someone to ask this and its just kind of cruel.

 

[tempest]

What's cruel?

 

[JaJa]

What's cruel?

asking if she gets a medal. I could be wrong but that was my immediate response. Hezly has got to feel really really bad right about now. People questioning whether she gets a medal has to make her feel even worse . Although I did write on this forum about how she was not contributing anything so that was kind of cruel too.

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

They aren't alternates in swimming, they were just the qualifications shift. But if you were in the relay pool but not chosen to swim, no medal. But Hezly will be on the floor with them and will be on the podium if they medal -- she competed, she medals with the team.

In swimming, if you are only a relay team in prelims and/or semis and the team ends up qualifying to the big final and gets on the podium, you do get a team medal - at least at OG. One of my colleagues has a swimming gold even though they did not swim in the final.