I keep seeing him but can’t figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?
We’re used to people who compete at world class levels having the highest tech, equipment, and perfect poise.
This guy competed in an extremely casual way, and still won silver.
It’s just a humorous subversion of expectations, especially compared to some of the other competitors in the same sport.
Remember when the Olympics was about sending ordinary people who were good at a skill to compete, instead of a life-long career pushing body and tech to the edge to see who would win the arms race of a sport?
I don’t either, it’s been a while. As a 70s kid it was the same as it is now, just less knowledge of how to squeeze everything out of an athlete.
To be fair though the fancy equipment isn’t giving any sort of advantage or anything. It’s just applying prescription eyeglasses to shooting. Apart from that no difference with other competitors.
I’ve seen the photo of the Korean Olympic shooter. That headgear isn’t just prescription eyeglasses.
It’s intended to replace prescription eyeglasses because they are inconvenient to shoot with.
It has the same function, except tailored to shooting (only one eye). So you aren’t getting a noticeable advantage vs someone with perfect eyesight (otherwise it wouldnt be legal at olympics).
If it wasn’t an advantage over regular glasses, they would wear regular glasses.
Because regular eyeglasses have glare and acuity problems that disadvantage the shooter.
You can read about the topic here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_glasses
That they even allow acuity correction is different from all other sports. For example my vision is very far from human perfect. 20/20 is average but some people have natural 20/10 vision. Similarly some people are naturally stronger than me but I wouldn’t be allowed to use a passive device (like an arm extension that would give mechanical advantage to throwing) to compensate for my natural average strength.
Right, I mean what sport would use an arm extension for mechanical advantage like a cricket bat, a field hockey stick, a badminton racket, a ping pong paddle, a lacrosse stick, a vaulting pole, a tennis racket, a golf club, ski poles, ice hockey sticks, or curling brooms?
If the equipment is available to all, it’s not creating an unfair advantage.
There’s nothing wrong with his poise. He’s not wearing headgear besides his glasses, but otherwise he’s standing pretty much the same as other shooters. A lot of shooters wear eye shades or visors, but most of them stand like that. You place your off hand in your pocket, and lean back slightly to align the sights. It’s not the first time a shooter’s pose has gone viral for looking like a casual badass gangster.
see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vitalina-batsarashkina-olympic-shooter-one-hand-stance/
And here are a bunch more shooters. Note how many aren’t wearing headgear or eye pieces.
https://img.olympics.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_380/f_auto/primary/aotouao8efquumuiekw6
It is such a perfect example of the internet that the woman in this pose is treated like a fool and the man with the exact same pose is some kind of badass.
This has nothing to do with male or female. It all started with the Korean women shooter looking badass with all her kit and pose. Then this middle age dad showed up with no kit, regular glasses and shot incredibly well looking like, yeah no big deal.
It started a lot longer ago than that.
I think she looks like a badass, especially with that Witcher medallion hanging off her belt loop.
The woman is also a badass in her own way and people memed on how cool she moved as well.
I’m not seeing that? She didn’t get memed as much for sure
During the Tokyo games in 2021, an image of the 2016 Rio games gold medal winner was posted on Twitter (erroneously being labelled as being from the Tokyo games), and she became a meme for women not knowing how to shoot because of her casual stance, and the subsequent meme for armchair experts trying to mansplain shooting to a gold medalist. At the time, it was a popular meme.
There’s also a Turkish female pistol shooter with the same style and casual approach: Sevval Ilayda Tarhan.
Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec together won the silver medal in shooting for Turkey at the Olympic Games in Paris.
But everybody only talks about the man.
Meh. She seems way too focused.
The guy looks like he does this every day, constantly. Brushing his teeth? He fires the gun. Tying his shoes? He fires the gun. Wiping his ass? He fires the gun.
Firing the gun is just something he does. He does it a lot. Then one day the Olympics shooting coach showed up and decided to put him out there on behalf of Turkey.
She is wearing hearing protection and a tactical looking hat, so there is less of a meme potential as the contrast is smaller.
Also I read somewhere, that the casual looking stance is actually a stabilisation technique.
So no mysoginy here
