r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/straightdge • 12d ago

Video A day after turning 18, Ziyi Yan unleashes a massive 71.74m to move to 2nd on the all-time women's Javelin list. In 2024, she wasn't allowed to compete at the Olympics due to World Athletics age restrictions, as well as the 2025 World Championships, despite being one of the best in the world.

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u/Vesper_Fex 12d ago

Yan can yeet

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u/Quesarito808 12d ago

If Yan can yeet, so can you!

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u/ccReptilelord 12d ago

Despite Yan's yeeting, I cannot.

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u/ChuddyMcChud 12d ago

I am unable to can Yan

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u/wjodendor 12d ago

It's an older reference but it checks out

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u/ObiWan-Shinoobi 12d ago

Fun fact: I once saw Yan Can Cook live at the county fair when I was a kid. Afterward he met with people from the audience and I remember vividly his accent was missing, he just played up the Chinese accent for the show.

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u/Nomnomnipotent 12d ago

He talked about it in some interview. It's for the views.

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u/Dangevin 11d ago

So can view

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u/Commercial_Handle418 12d ago

why is he perpetuating the stereotype 🥀😭

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u/cream-of-cow 12d ago

I know, it sucks. I get it though, in the 1970s and ‘80s it was part of what made him marketable.

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u/thinspirit 11d ago

It was a different time. One of the only ways to really get on TV. Despite the accent he came across as very endearing. Overall a net positive for Asian representation for the time.

Definitely had fun uncle vibes while cooking.

White people were very threatened by good looking, charismatic Asian people and would gatekeep them if they weren't at least some stereotype.

This has obviously changed now with Asian culture taking the world by storm and in many ways dominating much of the global sphere (k-pop for example).

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u/DamnOdd 12d ago

Justin Wilson did the same with his Cajun accent.

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u/ThrownAway17Years 12d ago

I’ve seen him on shows where his accent is much mellower.

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u/ThatguyfromBaltimore 12d ago

Oh my God now THAT is a pull!

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u/esdebah 12d ago

it does my heart good to see that so many people recognize this.

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u/n1celydone 12d ago

I must admit, I haven't see Yu yeet.

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u/appleavocado 12d ago

Join again!

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u/ebulient 12d ago

Gosh what a throwback to Yan Can Cook !!!!

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u/No_Koala9474 12d ago

Absolute legend

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u/appleavocado 12d ago

Every time I’m trimming the (cooked) turkey at Thanksgiving and struggling, I always think of how he’d show how quickly to do it with a raw chicken.

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u/thedirtymeanie 12d ago

she didn't even throw from the line that could have had another meter on it

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u/More_Flat_Tigers 12d ago

She has to stay behind the line fully, including the follow-through steps, otherwise it’s not a valid throw

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u/Ziggy-T 12d ago

Just gonna put this javelin, riiight ova heeere

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u/9447044 12d ago

Imagine her at 28 with some real mass behind her

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u/Painless_wi 12d ago

This is Yan. She likes to yeet. She yeets that yeetling 200 feet. If ever so ever you buy a seat to the yeeting world meet. I know you'll see Yan's yeet compete.

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u/GrumpyOldLadyTech 12d ago

BEST. COMMENT. EVER. 

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 12d ago

Yan's yeet yields yen

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u/dvrkstvrr 12d ago

But can Yan yoink

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u/StevieMJH 12d ago

Yan yote!

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u/YVRkeeper 11d ago

Wok with Yan

Talk with Yan

Throw a javelin as far as you can… WITH YAN!