Naomi
@afrochicks
interesting to see the discourse around naomi osaka’s post match interview most great athletes hate losing more than they love winning the emptiness and sadness i felt after an underperformance in sports was visceral especially as an individual athlete not in a team sport i think that its because the loss is so measurable like you’re literally a loser🤣 it’s so visible and public too if you mess up at work it’s between you and your boss maybe colleagues too but to lose when the world is watching, when your family and friends are cheering for you and maybe even travelled and bought tickets to support you just sucks brain replaying every mistake you made non stop but she’ll be fine and bounce back it’s just part of sport https://x.com/espnw/status/1941175577806848234?s=46
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth
Maybe not internationally, but nationally, I know this feeling, I’ve been there. I was a sport guy in high school, I represented individually and as a team. I must tell you, I blamed myself more for not winning individual than when it was a team game. And I remember in a team game, I blamed myself more when I always felt like I was the savior of the team (like, I should have done more or better, when in normal sense, I have my everything). It’s really never easy… sportsmen and women are humans and have emotions too.
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Naomi
@afrochicks
thats so interesting!! with team sports i thought y’all would deal with the loss together didn’t really think of one person thinking they could have done more ( unless it was like the goal keeper or someone scoring an own goal ) thankyou for sharing!! and yes its not easy!
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