My family has a long history with gymnastics, so I’ve always followed it.  Primarily women’s gymnastics (since the participants in my family are all women) but men’s as well.  Also a huge Olympics and Paralympics fan as an offshoot from that, I lose a lot of sleep every Summer and Winter Olympics trying to watch as much of it as I can.  I love countless events.

But for the Summer events, gymnastics is a focus, diving a close second since many divers can come from the gymnastics arena.

Watching the college women and qualifiers for the Olympics, Katelyn Ohashi was always a top contender…but was simultaneously dealing with what I considered an outrageous prejudice against her…that of body shaming.

Not even so much because of how appalling the social challenge would be for her as a victim of it, as much as I simply couldn’t understand it…meaning…look at these pics:

I mean…SERIOUSLY??

Um…she looks GREAT.

As in, “that is one awesome bod!”

At least in my book it certainly is.

So I couldn’t understand why she was being stigmatized the way she was.  And this was at a time when she could’ve been an Olympic contender.

Her story, and the mess she had to deal with: