I just keep thinking about the male entitlement behind the question.
Three brilliant female competitors give their all in a fight with an exceptional athlete achieving an Olympic Record and a tight competition for silver and bronze.
There's a male competitor who does not finish and so comes last.
There are two reasonable explanations, I don't know enough about weightlifting to understand which is the more likely:
- the male competitor has demonstrated terrible technique according to some observers who understand weightlifting. As in truly atrocious.
2.) Hubbard threw the competition on purpose according to other observers who understand weightlifting.
So, a competitor who failed to qualify for the final, who had terrible technique and who either simply wasn't good enough to compete or threw the competition.
And that male journalist is so fucking bored listening to female winners talk about females, he just has to ask a stupid question about that truly mediocre male competitor.
Because who cares about outstanding female athletes? Not that journalist. Especially since he must have known that the controversy makes an answer that doesn't land a a female athlete in trouble impossible. But he's asking anyway. Coz talking to female athletes about female achievements is too much.
What an arsehole.
But the women - pure class.