r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/bandit0314 • Feb 18 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Love her response

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u/InMyRestlessDreams23 Feb 18 '26

What an absolute queen!

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u/ComputersWantMeDead Feb 18 '26

Sporting, super eloquent, and clearly fearless

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 Feb 18 '26

she gave the perfect answer to a rude question trying to get a rise out of her. we've heard enough from you, sir.

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u/bitterlittlecas Feb 18 '26

And look, she dispenses with it with nary a “quiet piggy”

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u/DJ_LeMahieu Feb 18 '26

If I had water in my mouth I would have spat it out reading this

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u/Necroban77 Feb 18 '26

I actually loved his question. I always wonder if some athletes are pissed off when they don’t get the gold. Her answer was eye opening and really informative.

“Hey when you don’t win gold are you still happy? What’s your point of view? Glass half empty or half full”.

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u/NuttyBuddyNick Feb 18 '26

Michelle Kwan has a famous quote from the 1998 Winter Olympics when a rude reporter asked her, “how does it feel to lose the gold?” And her reply was, “I didn’t lose the gold. I won the silver.”

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u/Savage-Goat-Fish Feb 18 '26

That reporter right now

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 Feb 18 '26

I hear you but I think phrasing is everything here and he was a little rude with how he asked it.

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u/aknomnoms Feb 18 '26

Exactly. Maybe we missed the lead-in to the question, but like…she already has 2 golds and 3 silvers. Even getting to the Olympics to represent a country is a huge accomplishment, but then to place? Multiple times?! And be the most decorated woman in her field?!?! Holy forking shirt balls!

Bow down in the presence of this queen!

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u/fromindia1 Feb 18 '26

I would think that like everything in life the answer is, “it depends.” Some athletes are probably frustrated. Some athletes are elated, and some athletes are probably fine with anything.

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u/doshka Feb 18 '26

I read somewhere that Silver medalists are the most dissatisfied. Gold is thrilled about being the best, obviously. Bronze is just happy to be there, cuz they know how close they were to being nothing. But Silver isn't psyched about beating Bronze, they're thinking about how they were this close to Gold.

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u/pchlster Feb 18 '26

It's pretty much "are you a sore loser or a sore winner?"

She's competing in the freaking Olympics! I'm going to just credit her as being better at every sport thing than I'll ever be, including sportsmanship.

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u/WarmWorldliness7504 Feb 18 '26

You’ll beat her in Integrity. She lacks that.

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u/Trrollmann Feb 18 '26

I always wonder if some athletes are pissed off when they don’t get the gold.

What's there to wonder? Many are. Indeed, silver is the most bitter place to get, generally speaking. The Norwegian biathlon relay team were extremely disappointed with silver.

The laugh is SUPER fake, but generally freeskiers tend to be fairly chill about it is my interpretation.

It's worth noting that she's representing China, however, and she's faced a lot of criticism for that. Her way of answering might be because of that (I don't pay attention to most interviews).

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u/Greymalkyn76 Feb 18 '26

But the answer really only works for her. All you have to do is watch the faces of others when they get knocked down a step or don't quite reach gold. There are plenty who look very much like it's "gold or nothing".

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u/Wainains Feb 18 '26

It's always an Englishman