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Fiji just won its first-ever Olympic gold medal — and the country is (rightfully) freaking out. this is the face of unbridled joy.
The moment Simone Manuel realized she won a gold medal.
Just a few moments ago, Simone Manuel became the first Black woman from the USA to win an individual swimming medal at the Olympics - and it was GOLD!
In the Women’s 100m Freestyle, she tied for first place AND broke the Olympic Record at 52.70 seconds (alongside Canada’s Penny Oleksiak). A couple of days ago, she also won a silver medal for the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay (Source).
I’m living for female athletes telling sexism to fuck off.
Simone Biles goes, “I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I’m the first Simone Biles.”
Katie Ledecky is asked if she thinks she’s the future of Olympic swimming and she says, “I’m kind of the present too.” Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte who?
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
SHE DIDN’T JUST WIN SHE FUCKING DRAGGED EVERYONE ELSE THROUGH THE MUD
USA’s Simone Manuel reacts after she won the Women’s 100m Freestyle Final during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 11, 2016.
Im going to bed
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Okay, as a former competitive swimmer, I have to ask…. what the fuck is up with these guys? These are potential OLYMPIANS and they don’t know that women are, in general, better at swimming than men? Like, literally it is a maxim, “no matter who you are or what event you do, there is a woman somewhere who will kick your ass”. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS. Why don’t these assholes know this? Did they somehow manage to forget when they went from high school to college? Is the maxim lost when you level up? I swam for four different schools in three different states in three different REGIONS OF THE US and the maxim was known at every pool. What the fuck is their excuse? And why the fuck are they letting her set times? “I was probably just concentrating on doing my own work” my ass, she was ROLLING them, and she was doing it on PURPOSE and I 100% support her in doing this because if they are too STUPID to know their own bodies, their own times, and their own capabilities, then they need to get the fuck out of the pool. What the ever-loving fuck is with this man-boy tantrumfest.