Puma dropped her as a sponsor. It's the only reason she backed off and forfeited.

POO-MA!

Wish I could take credit for that one.

Man at first I felt bad for her, but after reading the article…nah what a shitshow

It's wild that she just kept on competing. Call me crazy but once I shit my pants in front of thousands of people I immediately get the fuck out if there.

Nice of her to apologize, but this is really on the officials and the organization for not pulling her out.

High-level athletes are always going to want to compete. They'll play through injury and discomfort to win. If it were up to them, they would and do put themselves in danger of further injury just to get out there and play. That's why coaches and staff are the ones who make decisions to bench players for injury and it's not left up to the players themselves.

Yeah if it was like a bit before the finish line I can see pushing through it, but it look like she got shit all over multiple pieces of equipment causing a huge health risk. Ignoring all of that stepping out of the race cause you shit yourself would probably make this a lot less news worthy and you would at least have some sympathy from people.
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Yah thats where I landed as well…you had so many chances to withdraw but instead made a literal mess everywhere…yah thats just nasty. 🤮

She got the runs, not the stops.

Too bad they weren't known for pants, the Puma Pants Company would have loved to sponsor her.

So much worse than it sounds. This was an indoor race and it wasn't just running. They used "communal equipment such as ropes, sandbags, rowing machines and medicine balls"

She finished first, so there was poop smeared on everything for the racers behind her. She ruined everyone's race and potentially got people sick.

She may have been #1 but #2 was right on her heels.

And that's why you're not a champion! Every winner shits their pants!

It was bad enough that athletes behind her were gagging and trying not to vomit. Now, hyrox did give those athletes time penalties.

"I love my sponsor so much that I even Puma pants!"

Good enough for POTUS is good enough for my household.

Okay in a 14 comment thread this is the second to make me chuckle. Saved.

You know what? I'm going to give myself a little treat today and not read this article!

USA! USA! USA!

And in her socks. Also her back and arms somehow.

Hyrox as a sport won't live this down for a while, and I doubt she ever will. She'll be the lady that shat herself doing Hyrox for the rest of her life.

And here I was thinking Hyrox was the original Oreo. I heard about this but had no idea ‘Hyrox’ was the name of the sport. 🤣

If I could give more than one upvote.....well played!

I agree, it's not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don't think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.

many long distance cyclists piss and shit in their knicks.

I feel sorry for these people when I read stories like these. They're pushing themselves so hard physically and emotionally, their head's in a weird place, their judgement is off and they end up humiliating themselves on the world stage. Virtually the entire world. The worst kind of fame. This person's life is over. They will forever be the point of ridicule by everyone.

Can you imagine waking up every day, your career is totally over, having to face that. Knowing that the whole world has seen what you did in the heat of the moment. You have let down every one who supported you, your family, and failed your life's goal in the most embarrassing way possible. To hide yourself away in miserable shame is the best you could possibly hope for.

And it just doesn't go away, now you have to get on camera to apologize and explain it away. You have to make statements. You have to watch clips of it over and over. Everywhere you go people are talking about you in hushed mocking wispers. Everything you do will have an asterisk near it. One fucked up moment overshadows everything else you will ever do from here on out. For the rest of your life.

That's a hard burden to carry.

You sure it's not a small, stout, thickset, herbivorous mammal in the family Procaviidae instead?

I dont know. If literal shit is leaking from my ass to the point that i, and everything i touch, gets smeared with it, i believe i would have the good sense to seek out a bathroom. You know, instead of touching more things with my plague hands, and somehow expecting to win because i made my opponents gag from the shit smell.

You'll never get an unexpected and devastating 2nd place finish at your first Ironman triathlon with that attitude.

i had no idea what it was, so i looked on the wiki. a branded and licensed (i.e. for profit) exercise thing. kinda like crossfit, which is more about the workout regimen and less about the competitions. this one started with the competitions but all those competitors and wannabes still have to workout and train so there is several categories of licensed facilities for that. the routine of a run followed by a workout exercise and then repeat several more times is very similar to some of my varsity track workouts back in the 1980s

Just don't get that one dude who'll stare you in the eye and try to outshit you

Wietrzyk's major sponsor, Puma, is distancing itself from the athlete by quietly removing "Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA" clothing items from its website. But a spokesperson for Puma says there's "no change" to their partnership with Wietrzyk, telling CBC News in a statement Thursday that some landing pages were "unintentionally taken offline."

On social media, people have flooded the brand's comments with plays on "Puma," such as "Pooma," "Poopma" and "Poo Ma Pants."

There's always a price to be paid for obsessions.

Amazing.

Nice PR apology. If she actually gave a shit she would have forfeit before it became an issue.

If she gave a "shit" you say?

If it had been intentional, it would have been a brilliant strategy - take an early lead and shit on everything to slow everyone else down.

I'm sure she didn't want to shit herself, so she's goof.

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I meant good, but goof works too

Well, it's no one's obligation to validate someone, or be friends with them. When you put your entire self-worth in the hands of random people, this is exactly what happens. They treat you like a broken, tainted object.

The key is to pick a path where you are not well known, and don't give a shit about other people and what they have to offer.

I can’t stop laughing

Runners often have the shits, it's just biology

"Zesraj się a nie daj się". Living up to her polish roots.

It's guaranteed to be a shit article.

It's why they're runners -- they frequently have to shit without much warning, so they've gotten good at running (to the nearest bathroom or waste receptacle)

I'll never look at those Spandex'd cyclists the same way 😶

Jesus Christ. Another embarrassment for Australia. I honestly don't know who's worse: Shitstirrer or Raygun.

I wonder what Usain Bolt's diet must have been 🤔

True, let's not conflate cause and effect ig.

Apparently, in her mind this was a Michael Jordan with the flu situation. She has pictures afterwards in a hospital bed getting an IV and bragging about how you have to do what you have to do.

Now all that said, I'm a little sympathetic, as apparently shitting yourself during marathons and the like is not uncommon, but this was some weird crossfit thing where you are indoors and constantly getting down on the floor for various reasons and using provided equipment, so anyone who came after her was wading through her poopies. I think you have to be capable of being very self-centered, at least temporarily, to be a truly elite competitive athlete, but somebody should have thought this one through better.

Nah, that's Hyrax. You're thinking of the South Korean RAM manufacturer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvY2O1LBIe8