2 athletes received 82% of the online abuse at Paris Olympics - anyone know who they were?

gotta be shacarri and lyles

Was one that female break dancer?

Probably that one guy from that one country that raped a 12 year old

Lyles has to be one of them

im guessing Lyles and that Algerian boxer

Khalif? The obvious dopers Sedjati, Hull, Bell? The woke Hiltz?

If this board is any indication, my guess would be Hiltz and Lyles. They got the most hate here this summer. Sha'Carri doesn’t get as much hate here as she did two-three years ago.

I think it’s pretty obvious that Gudaf Tsegay would have been one of them……

The Algerian boxer, the Dutch Tennis player(who raped a 12 year old). Lyles maybe? Those are the ones I can think of.

Lyles and Sha'Carri are the natural conclusions, and likely the answers.

But if 82% went to 2 athletes yet only 49% went to Americans, that would mean one of our athletes is not American, no?

For speculation purposes:

Maybe Sedjiati for semi-obvious doping?

Kenny B for baton issues? (He is American tbf)

Hiltz instead of Sha'Carri(also American?

Didn't George Mills get absolutely berated on social media for a few days for menacing a French dude after a collision that was kind of his fault?

Could also be either Jingy or Kerr fans hating on the alternative as well that's usually an issue

Kipchoge could maybe be a possibility? Although most reacted with respect, he did also gather some "choker" claims and doping accusations

edit: I'm assuming this is only track and field. If not, it's probably the Dutch rapist or the Australian break dancer

I am pretty sure it is the Algerian (boxer) and the Australian (break dancer).

I was in Europe during the Olympics and people were savaging those two. They must be the two biggies.

The Americans would have some abuse but spread out over lots of athletes: Sha'carri, Lyles, etc.

p.s. Honorable mention goes to the lady who whipped her horse on camera and was banned. They were hating on her as well.

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-equestrian-horse-abuse-84d818ad9e03151e8176ef63e1ad4fe0

Lyles and the boxer

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On this board it was easily Fiona and I’m all for it.

It was the abusive boxer dude posing as a woman. The break dancer took a little heat also. Surprisingly the rapist got off, again.

Na, not Sha'Carri. I think she's actually turned the corner in the realms of public opinion.

Given that it's a World Athletics study, it's gotta be Track and field Athletes, right?

So, no Algerian boxers or Raygun.

Definitely Noah Lyles (lots of controversial moments e.g. 100m photo finish, racing with CoVid), and I'm gonna say maybe Jakob, just because his attitude is quite polarising.

Presumably since this was a World Athletics study it focused on track and field athletes.

There were only 1,800 track and field athletes at the Games. Even if every single one of them had social media accounts it would be less than the total in the study of 1,917. It had to include other events.