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Olympics 2024: Porn site has offer for pole vaulter whose penis got him disqualified
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I get your point but I don't think getting to the Olympics is considered being mediocre.
Compared to us regular mortals? Definitely not. Compared to his peers? I don't think finishing 13th in a sport like pole vaulting will have him swimming in sponsorships and fame.
Compared to other pole vaulters all over the world. Yes, he won't be swimming in money, but he is still #34 world ranked. There's no definite number of all male pole vaulters in the world but even with a very rough 50k estimate he is not mediocre.
You are obviously objectively correct - I have just never encountered someone using that frame of reference when discussing sports. For example, there are literally millions of soccer players over the world, and by default the players throughout the English third division are some of the top 1%. These people can do things with a ball you and I can only dream of. Still, when discussing soccer, most people would call them mediocre.