Olivia Dunne is worried about gymnastics after troubling sight

The New York Post ^ | Jan. 28, 2025 | Ryan Gaydos

[kawhill]

Olivia, I like woman’s tennis, I think it’s the short skirts.

[Owen]

Maybe best to recall that FR folks watching the NFL do it while taking a knee.

God knows how all that got forgotten.

[RedMonqey]

Have you seen their uniforms lately, they’re almost nude as it is now.

[TBP]

Basketball is boring because it's so "exciting." It's too frenetic to follow.

That, and the fact that they do nothing now but try for 3-pointers, the way baseball players seem to be trying to hit a home run every flipping pitch.

[FLT-bird]

We’ll gladly tune in to watch Livvy Dunne but as for the sport........

[No.6]

BS judging has been part of gymnastics all my life what with Cold War politics and other stuff.

That was why Nadia K’s “10” was so remarkable; both East and West judges aligned.

If one actually wanted objective performance one could set the scoring accordingly and use modern cameras + machine learning/AI to consistently find breaks from perfect technique.
(They don’t really want that, they just want to force people to watch their insufferable leftism).

[bankwalker]

Warm oil works much better than mud.

[Tallguy]

Olivia Dunne’s collegiate gymnastics career ended this past spring. She is, in effect, retired from the sport. So maybe this is a veiled comment on the way it used to be when she competed for LSU?

[higgmeister]

I just think “professional sports” has become a joke. It doesn’t always have politics embedded in it, but it often does. I watch none of it now. I have no wish to be lulled by their Bread and Circuses.

I don't even think it's a joke anymore.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Soviet-bloc rigged judging put me off, so fifty years ago I quit watching judged contests—gymnastics, figure skating, diving, Dancing with the Stars LOL, Angel Hernandez, etc.—because of the subjectivity. The only reason I’ll watch boxing is that a knockout can short-circuit bad judging.

[TBP]

Yes, she is definitely worth watching.

[SaxxonWoods]

“That, and the fact that they do nothing now but try for 3-pointers, the way baseball players seem to be trying to hit a home run every flipping pitch.”

Yep, and before that it was “Guard brings ball up-court, throws it to the 7 footer, he gets fouled and maybe makes one of two free throws”

Basketball was fun to watch during the days of the “passing game” as run by Doug Moe and a few others. When the giant guys took over a friend said “Basketball: Big black guys bumping into each other.” Now it’s 3 pointers. Boring. Any gym rat can make those.

[Major Matt Mason]

People will watch gymnastics during the Olympics, but women's college sports in general has always been very niche. There has been a strong push since the Obama years to equate women's and men's sports, but there isn't a comparison to be made.

[dfwgator]

Why aren’t the feminists supporting women’s sports? I’ve got men’s sports to occupy my time.

[Myrddin]

The movie "Stick It" is a fun women's gymnastics flick. The title comes with a double entendre. It's a fun movie.

[Libloather]

She can never be wrong.

[KarlInOhio]

I treat women’s and men’s gymnastics with equal distain.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[rxh4n1]

“Serve alcohol and the crowds will come out for women’s sports such as Curling.”

Ten Cent Beer Night will put meat in the seats.