Which Olympic Sport Has Stressed You Out the Most?
We are approaching the end of Week 1 of the Rio Olympics, and now that you know which of your friends, family members, and colleagues are watching, you’ve probably exchanged stories about how stressed you — or they — have been at various moments. Now, we want you to share them with us.
Which sport in Rio has caused you the most stress as a TV or live-stream viewer?
Friday’s soccer match between the U.S. and Sweden, which went to a penalty shootout, will no doubt be a popular pick.
mood #USAvSWE pic.twitter.com/8wUBERXCo7
— Kayla Knapp (@KaylaKnappFOX) August 12, 2016
The last few minutes of this overtime @SoccerGrlProbs #USAvSWE pic.twitter.com/6lDGzRzF90
— Bailey Torrez (@BaileyTorrez) August 12, 2016
THIS. GAME. #USAvSWE pic.twitter.com/hBqP4SfFqH
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 12, 2016
Live look at the Ringer staff watching #USAvSWE pic.twitter.com/5baWF1clQC
— The Ringer (@ringer) August 12, 2016
Now I have to spend all day putting IKEA furniture together just to smash it to pieces #USAvSWE
— Michael Cella (@mikeVcella) August 12, 2016
Around the Yahoo offices, some people found it difficult to concentrate. “As I write this, I’m pretending to work and watching the game. I’m stress eating buffalo chicken and bacon pizza,” Yahoo Style & Beauty’s Lauren Tuck emailed.
“I’m dying with this soccer game. I can’t do anything,” Yahoo Movies’ Kerrie Mitchell said in Slack. “I may have to go for a walk.”
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But it’s not just soccer giving the Olympics-obsessed stress tests. “I was so tense and yelling at the TV for Michael Phelps to beat Chad le Clos that the two Chihuahuas I was dog-sitting ran away from me and hid in their travel bags,” Yahoo Lifestyle and Entertainment’s Susan Kittenplan admitted.
I myself am still nursing a sore shoulder suffered earlier this week during armchair antics that were (not at all) necessary to help anchor Nathan Adrian bring home the U.S. men’s 4x100m freestyle relay gold.
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Aly Raisman’s parents aren’t the only ones who get nervous watching gymnastics. “I was so worried that someone would fall during the first night of women’s gymnastics that I watched the whole night through my fingers like it was a horror movie,” Yahoo TV’s Kristen Baldwin confesses.
And no one has forgotten about those cycling road races during the first weekend of competition. “After a couple of men fell, the announcer said, ‘We’ll be back with plenty more drama to come,’ and I was like, ‘Please, no!’ But then that guy fell and broke his collarbone,” Yahoo Style & Beauty’s Beth Greenfield says. “The worst though was seeing the Dutch woman fall and crumple on the side of the road, fracturing her spine. Really not fun to see athletes take their lives in their hands.”
Your turn. Which sport — or specific moment — has stressed you out the most from Rio 2016?