Bottom left he really looks like he hasn’t smiled in 20 years and the photographer told him to
Great integration into that meme
Why not show the gold medalists… Seeing as most never saw them, and they’ve got zero publicity compared to others.
Because the Olympics aren’t good for anything but ruining nations and memes.
Are they not the people with steampunk glasses in the memes?
Nope, it was Serbia’s Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunovic.
Damir Mikec’s eye wear looked more like something made from lego technic:
…and he’s gotten no love for having beaten all these meme based characters.
I feel like this is a great statment on how “meritocracy” works IRL
Because they’re inferior in the minds of many.
Silver almost best them with no equipment.
At first I thought he was a divorcee just trying to get his dog back but now that I know he’s a divorcee spending time with his daughter I like the story even more.
He is actually part of the turkish gendarmerie which is notorious for oppressing minorities in turkey
It’s almost like no one cares about the Olympics
Who is downvoting you? I wouldn’t think that Lemmy would be into athletics or patriotism.
It’s just a stupid and unnecessary comment.
And what has patriotism to do with it?
So our king has a queen!
So Turks just like to shoot with their hands in their pockets, I guess?
I think that’s just how the shooting stance works. Hooking your hand in your pocket prevents it from moving and messing with your aim.
Wouldn’t they have gotten gold if she didn’t drag the entire team down lol?
Turkey would have actually gotten a shiny platinum medal if there were no ffffffeeeeeeemales on the team.
Huh? That guy is cool because of his lore and his attitude. We don’t care if he is male, female an alien or whatever. We don’t care if he won a medal, a diploma or a 5$ discount on a supermarket.
He is relevant because this guy went shooting into an olimpic event with a normal guy vibe wearing his prescription glasses and one hand in the pocket, while other olimpic teams wear all kind of complex sighting aparatus for this events. Plus his story lore of how he became olimpic shooter is hilarious.
His teamate could be Erdogan, Beyonce, Taylor Swift. NOT RELEVANT.
So what? He has a female in his team? Okay.
Damn you got stamped on for simply explaining why people cared about A and not B.
Hilarious place.
Yeah, we should never consider reasoning as a human quality. Social media platforms tend to remove that. I thought Lemmy was different. Well I guess it depends on the instance.
I had never seen that many down votes on Lemmy, good job
It was literally a team event and one of the things that makes the bit funny is how “he” won silver. In fact, that’s the entire thing this story hinges on, performing well.
In a team event.
Nice self-reporting your misogyny though, and I’m sorry your mind fails to draw a single independent conclusion from this meme.
When I shot in highschool it was a team event while also individual. So your team’s score is the summation of the individuals scores (pre-finals).
(Finals is like an extra portion for the top few competitors. Your score in finals is added and that’s your total. It was added to make the sport more spectator friendly. When I shot it was just 10 extra shots but shortly after I stopped it was changed to top 8 shooting one shot at a time and lowest shot gets eliminated. I believe this is still the case based on pictures I saw of the two finalists shooting side by side alone.)
So it’s possible he won silver as individual and the team didn’t win or also got silver. I haven’t actually looked into the Olympic rules or results but that’s how it was when I shot competitively.Edit: Looks like 10 meter air pistol categories individual men, individual women, and mixed team are all run at different times. So it was only as a team that they won silver. I don’t know about the individual results of the team competition, but regardless it wouldn’t have earned a medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics
I thought it hinged on the ‘baller move’, then getting a silver.
Since you seem invested in the Olympics, what was his score?
Oh you watch the Olympics name all the medals 🤓 vibe
Gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal
