“It’s a wave of consequence, so I’m not going to say that I’m not scared, I am.”
The surf world held its collective breath, two weeks ago, when Australia’s Tyler Wright withdrew from the Brazil leg of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour citing an “unspecified injury.” The two-time world champion, currently tenth in the world, has overcome almost too many obstacles to count on her professional surf journey including perpetual suffocation, African flu which led to post-viral syndrome, a father who forced her to surf and carrying the burden of being the only openly gay surfer at the highest levels of competition to name but a very few.
Her missing the Vivo Rio Pro serious in and of itself made much more extreme in light of the upcoming Olympic Games which will be contested, for surfers, in Tahiti.
Surfing Australia put a brave face on the situation, releasing a statement reading, “Tyler has been advised by her doctors and specialists that she needs some treatment and would prefer her sitting out Brazil. Tyler will be 100% ready for the Olympics.”
Though in a sign of possible doubt, Tyler Wright maybe being 98% ready for the Olympics, the team readied Sally Fitzgibbons as replacement.
Well, hours ago, Wright revealed the horror diagnosis that kept her out of Brazil.
Balance issues.
No further details were given, whether it is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis, Meniere’s disease or Ramsay Hunt syndrome, for example, but brave Wright seems to be sallying forth telling the Guardian that it was a “hard call” to make heading to Teahupo’o but that she’s excited and ready.
“It’s a wave of consequence, so I’m not going to say that I’m not scared, I am,” she declared. “I’ve done a lot in the last couple of years to sit with that, but at the same time I don’t think it’s that complicated either; you either go or you don’t, and you make that decision in the moment.”
Wright is not a favorite, by the numbers, but her hero’s journey will, no doubt, inspire and isn’t that what the Olympics is really about?
Very exciting.
I will, of course, be covering all the action from ground zero nearly 10,000 miles away in Paris and will be certain to keep abreast of any and all developments as opening day draws near.
Médicalement miraculeux.
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Apparently this condition some are calling Caity Simler Syndrome.
Id say 87% of the they/them tour has it.
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Must be really hard playing the violin with such a condition
Send Sally.
Whats really going on with this gal..?
I think she really has some deep issues going on, and she’s 30. That’s when you can’t just keep holding back the flood, and all that shit you could bury in your 20s, comes and kicks your ass.
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0670785938/
The bummer about being a pro athlete is that the pressure is on to keep going before your one chance passes you by, even if it’s obviously destroying you.
Maybe mocking her is the best thing anyone could do for her. She doesn’t need enablers.
There’s so much to hate, or at least mock, about her.
But there’s something about watching someone spiral downward, that I also feel sorry for her in a way I normally reserve for lost dogs and frightened children.
she’s just not right,
Thoughts and prayers, that she still has more obscure ailments left to call on as she continues to get paid more than me for not doing her job.
Didn’t see say she was inspired by Kaepernick?
She didn’t say exactly how he inspired her, but it should be noted that he has made more money for not playing football than anyone in history.
What my co-workers/laborers suffer from……. Vaginaitis
Didn’t read the article, is she pregnant?
I hear the saying ‘Sacré blue’ is back en vogue should you want approval of the broad French middle class.
Xox
Hypochondria is a real disease
I’ve had to forego being a professional surfer(attention whore) because I suffer from macrophallus, which causes balancing problems.
It’s a tragic diagnosis, but we soldier on. What else can we do?
Shes been unbalanced for years
Yep… keeps dropping her wallet on every turn.
Bank balance problems?
Don’t go blaming Tyler for this, it’s not her fault.
There’s a little known medical fact that if you suffer from COS (cold ovary syndrome) and go to a warm climate, the temperature change can cause the ovaries to thaw at different rates thereby causing weight variations across the pelvic region which result in physically unbalanced wobblyness.
A GoFundMe has been set up for research costs into this growing COS epidemic…
when I first moved to California from Hawaii, I contracted CPS (small penis syndrome).
At one point, on an especially cold winter morning, I considered calling the police even after a 15 minute hot water shower wherein I could not find my penis, believing someone may have stolen my penis whilst I was surfing. It “turned up” a few hours later, thanks to Lisa.
After a short time of living in California I realized that most of the CalMen have chronic CPS, so I didn’t feel so bad.
I believe you’re actually referring to a common trait found mainly in San Clemente surfers, generally referred to as ‘2% syndrome,’ or in the original vernacular ‘2 inchers’
I’m not sure their condition is temporary.
When I was in college, a female roommate walked into my room without knocking, when I was changing immediately after a California session. I felt ashamed, but not because she barged in when I was naked.
Sadly, I didn’t have the presence of mind to insist that she stay so I could redeem myself. I learned from that.
What day should we dedicate to Cold Oviary Syndrome? Right before October Breast Cancer Month? Usually breasts lead people to vagina’s but…… not always.
Love this scientific research though. Love love
Smart move. Get on the front foot. Win, great narrative. Loose, great narrative. Smart, unlike some.
Whadya know, Tyler is unbalanced
TOILer
Shes pregnant for sure !!
yep, I called it when she bailed on Brazil.
Can’t we just give Tom his time in the sun?
Soz.
How rude of me.
I bow to The Tom.
How unbalanced of you
is it a boy or an abortion?