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Love how try-hard and over the top the rest of the younger participants ended up looking, admittedly many of them with excessive/unnecessary equipment, compared to him.

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Is that really the case though? The only real difference was the eyewear, age, and a bit of an attitude that contrasted with the rest.

I think they also wear fitted jackets that let them tighten their bodies akin to a lifting suit

The rifle shooters wear stiff clothing, while pistol shooters tend to wear looser things (and there are lots of rules around clothes not being allowed to provide support).

This is correct. All pistol shooters just wear shirts. All of them have their hand in their pocket. If you don't have astigmatism you can get away without the fancy eyeglass holder, and just use regular glasses. The lack of blinder is somewhat impressive, because most people will get a headache after too long without an opaque blinder on the off eye.

Meanwhile in rifle it's all $2k kit of rigid jacket and pants. If you aren't using the rigid jacket and pants, you will get absolutely wrecked. Your score will be lower, and your back will get injured in the long run because of the contortionist posting when holding the 13 pound rifle up for hours. It's not possible to be competitive without it.

> All pistol shooters just wear shirts. All of them have their hand in their pocket.

First one I thought of proves you wrong? https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/g-s1-14616/olympics-paris-sha...

Sure, there will be a few that don't

Though in that specific case, I'm pretty sure she's got part of the hand in the pocket, and that shooter Kim Yeji also does hand in pocket other times, if you've seen her at other issf events (here's a random example):

https://old.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/1eheidc/olympic_p...

I've also done finger through belt loop, it's basically the same thing. (Guess it wasn't technically a belt loop, but like a utility holder loop, like you'd put a small hammer in on the side of work pants?)

An analogy would be if there was a big news cycle about programmers and people were really shocked about a specific programmer usinv a "text editor", and people went on and on about how that was... except all the other programmers are sitting over there thinking "wait, every programmer uses text editors".

Sure you can find a few that don't, but that's real missing the point.

The ones that got gold against the coll looking ones, were a bald man and a fat lady.

People who don't use equipments inherently have fear of failure.

When they fail, they can say "see? Because I don't have all the fancy equipments".

That's literally the opposite of fear of failure.

People who use equipments actually have fear of failure. Fear of something makes you want to avoid it, and they try avoid failing in case their bare abilities are not good enough

I don't think you understand fear of failure.

Inherently, everyone knows they can lose whatever they do.

People who use equipments and lose would have no excuse why they lose. They are not scared of having no excuse, so they try the hardest.

People who have fear of failure will act like they don't try, so they have an excuse in the case that they lose.

People who fear failure in general don't compete in Olympics.

But going naked eye when everyone else wears equipments is the ultimate not giving a fuck.

Especially because it's not your personal competition and if this costs your country medals people will NOT like you and if you say "ah you know it's just because I didn't wear equipments, which I totally could but didn't" they will not like you more because of it.

I have to assume people who don't use equipment have either arrogance or poverty.

Or fear of failure.

This is a well studied behaviour in students where they act like they don't focus on studying. When they suck, they can say they didn't really try.

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