First off, mental health is a serious thing and can affect all of us at some point.

However, I’m noticing a recent trend for sports people deciding to quit when the going gets tough.

Imagine being an Olympic selector? You choose the athletes carefully. There will be calls made to those that didn’t quite make it. There will be tears. Perhaps some real mental health issues as athletes miss out on their dreams, despite a life of sacrifice?

Those are not calls I would want to make.

Imagine then, in a team competition at the Olympics, one of your athletes does not do well (not terribly, just not so well) in their first event (with others to follow in a much needed points hunt).

And then quits. It’s too much. Mental elf innit? She’s got to think about herself, not everyone else (more or less what was said here).

Now, if she was genuinely losing it to the point she was totally unable to perform, then fair enough.

I’m just getting the vibe that people nowadays are becoming so soft that a bit of pressure and they walk away.

Fucking quitting? In the Olympics early on in a team event? Fuck off!

And they get praise for doing this shit, by the way. Maybe why they do it?

Imagine if Sir Bobby Moore, back in ’66 said during the final, “I’m too young to be taking this pressure Boss, please substitute me now.”

Bloody heck! Just wouldn’t happen, would it? And he wouldn’t have been deemed brave either, even if we’d won in the end!

Being a great sportsperson is not just about ability. Or even what you’ve won in the past. It’s about showing bottle when the chips are down. Remember Ben Stokes knowing one tiny mistake and the Ashes series was lost? The cunt had to survive alone with the last choice batsman (a bowler) for hours and score heavily. Against the best bowling attack in the world. That was fucking bottle. We had no fucking hope it seemed, but belief and strong will pulled off a sporting miracle.

Can’t be doing with sporting quitters, sorry.

Link

Nominated by – Cuntybollocks

And then there’s this from Field Marshal Cuntgomery

Playing the mental health card when things aren’t going your way. Particularly, as recently seen in sport.

I know this is a sensitive issue for some, so let me explain why it boils my piss. Two years ago I popped round to see a cousin of mine, only to find him hanging from the loft hatch. He’d been dead for a day or two. He left a lengthy note explaining his reasons. Reasons far more important than not playing tennis very well or not being in the medals at the Olympics.

People like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka play the mental health card and get all the plaudits for being brave and coming out, but these things never occur when they are winning.

Maybe I’m just a cynical old bastard, but it just seems to be a cover all phrase to mask a bad day at the office. We all do jobs that get us down and they can lead to serious issues. If that’s the case, most people re assess and get out, try something different.

It just seems to me that if they can’t get glory for winning, they try to get glory for being “brave”. Crying wolf is not going to help the poor fuckers with real problems in the long term.
Brave Mental Health Olympians

And yet more from – mystic maven

Simone Biles of the US Olympic team, who has dropped out because the whole experience has become too stressful.

Biles said on Tuesday: “It’s been really stressful these Olympic Games, not having an audience. It’s been a long week, a long Olympic process, a long year. We are just a little bit too stressed out. We should be out here having fun.

“I feel like I’m also not having as much fun and this Olympic Games I wanted it to be for myself and it felt like I was still doing it for other people. It hurts my heart that doing what I love has been taken away from me to please other people.”

I’m still trying to decipher what the fuck she’s talking about
Anyway, what a mard-arse, previous generations would have had a backbone and got on with it. She’ll no doubt become some kind of iconic heroine for being a failure.

And another, this time from Cock Blanket

Simone Biles…….

I can’t escape the feeling that this BLACK, FEMALE athlete is pulling the mental health card because she failed at the recent Olympics and can’t take failure. Instead she insists that her performance is due to her mental health. Just another attention seeking wanker jumping on the mental health bandwagon.

Obviously the BBC has jumped on this with both feet. News stories all over about this revelling how proud EVERONE is about her. I am not fucking proud so leave me out of it. If it turns out she is a lesbian too then the BBC will no doubt commission a statue in her honour.

Fuck off. You had a bad day and you were shite. Stop blaming it on mental health as that is the easy get out choice at the moment.

Fuck you and fuck the Olympics.