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: