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Judo star Martyna Trajdos defends coach after Olympics viewers stunned by slapping preparation
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| 7-28-21
| Danielle Zoellner
Posted on 07/28/2021 5:30:44 PM PDT by dynachrome
A German judoka has defended her coach after the man brutally shook and slapped her in a pre-competition ritual during the Tokyo Olympics.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; judo; olympics; slapping; sports
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Video at site. Not brutal. Just a "get your head straight" thing.
To: dynachrome
“Looks like this was not hard enough,” Ms Trajdos joked in her statement, referencing the slaps.
She then added: “I wish I could have made a different headline today. As I already said, that’s the ritual which I chose pre-competition! My coach is just doing what I want him to do to fire me up.”
Some commenters responded to the post saying that they understood the pre-competition ritual.
“Judokas understand this,” a commenter wrote.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:32:16 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: dynachrome
They do the same thing for the spelling bee.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:33:58 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: dynachrome
No biggie. The White House staff does that to Joe, regularly.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:34:57 PM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
(This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
To: dynachrome
Some people need to be coddled, and some people need to be slapped like General Patton slapped a soldier.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:35:07 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children.)
To: blueunicorn6; dynachrome
They do the same thing for the spelling bee. I don’t know about spelling bees but they do the same thing for foot ball games.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:36:19 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: EvilCapitalist
Should have slapped Simone Biles.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:36:36 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
To: dynachrome
Whenever I go to the dentist , I do the same thing to the dentist before he works on me.
Want to make sure he’s focused
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:37:02 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
To: blueunicorn6
I’ve seen footage of the same rituals on plane fights ;0)
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:39:48 PM PDT
by
ResponseAbility
(-The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
To: Pontiac
“foot ball games.”
The coach used to ring some gongs with a head slap, helmet or not.
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:40:54 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: ResponseAbility
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:44:01 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: dynachrome
To: DIRTYSECRET
It ain’t better until you have the full url. Airplane?
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posted on
07/28/2021 5:47:26 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: blueunicorn6
You are so FR. I laughed.
To: dynachrome
Nothing compared with the helmet slaps we used to get from football coaches... back when football was football.
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posted on
07/28/2021 6:19:02 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: dynachrome
This is terrible! Violence has no place in combative sports.
\s, if needed
To: LittleBillyInfidel
To: EvilCapitalist
Yeah, that may not be the best analogy.
To: dynachrome
My judo instructor when I was a kid got his black belt at the Kodokan in Tokyo. The stories he told were hair raising about ‘conditioning’. Being a ‘round eye’ they were especially hard on him. It was a point of great pride to him that he endured. That’s when I began to understand what manhood was all about.
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posted on
07/28/2021 8:27:58 PM PDT
by
Spok
(There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
To: HereInTheHeartland
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posted on
07/28/2021 9:40:38 PM PDT
by
Free in Texas
(Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber. )
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