Consider how swiftly the Olympic runner and nine-time N.C.A.A. champion Suzy Favor Hamilton was vilified after she was caught working as an escort while coping with mental illness. Nike immediately severed ties, as did many other groups associated with her. The athletic achievements on her Wikipedia page became subsumed by stories of prostitution.
“It was as if I must have murdered someone,” Favor Hamilton said recently. “Never a degree of ‘Well, perhaps something must be very much wrong.’”
For Hamilton, the attraction to vice fulfilled the same thing many elite athletes get from the rush of victory in sport. “It was the Consider how swiftly the Olympic runner and nine-time N.C.A.A. champion Suzy Favor Hamilton was vilified after she was caught working as an escort while coping with mental illness. Nike immediately severed ties, as did many other groups associated with her. The athletic achievements on her Wikipedia page became subsumed by stories of prostitution.
“It was as if I must have murdered someone,” Favor Hamilton said recently. “Never a degree of ‘Well, perhaps something must be very much wrong.’”
For Hamilton, the attraction to vice fulfilled the same thing many elite athletes get from the rush of victory in sport. “It was the buzz I felt as an athlete,” she said. “I have a history of taking things to extremes."
“I’m no Tiger Woods,” Hamilton told me. “There is so much money at stake with someone like him. So a company like Nike will do anything to protect him and his image.” She still had a relationship with Nike when reports of her escort work prompted the company to drop her. Now, she said, “I’m on an island trying to protect myself.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/sunday-review/tiger-woods-comebacks-women.htmlbuzz I felt as an athlete,” she said. “I have a history of taking things to extremes."
“I’m no Tiger Woods,” Hamilton told me. “There is so much money at stake with someone like him. So a company like Nike will do anything to protect him and his image.” She still had a relationship with Nike when reports of her escort work prompted the company to drop her. Now, she said, “I’m on an island trying to protect myself.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/sunday-review/tiger-woods-comebacks-women.html
NYT Article wonders why women like Suzy Favor Hamilton don't get comebacks like Tiger Woods did (except for Serena)
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On an island trying to protect myself wrote:
Consider how swiftly the Olympic runner and nine-time N.C.A.A. champion Suzy Favor Hamilton was vilified after she was caught working as an escort while coping with mental illness. Nike immediately severed ties, as did many other groups associated with her. The athletic achievements on her Wikipedia page became subsumed by stories of prostitution.
“It was as if I must have murdered someone,” Favor Hamilton said recently. “Never a degree of ‘Well, perhaps something must be very much wrong.’”
For Hamilton, the attraction to vice fulfilled the same thing many elite athletes get from the rush of victory in sport. “It was the buzz I felt as an athlete,” she said. “I have a history of taking things to extremes."
“I’m no Tiger Woods,” Hamilton told me. “There is so much money at stake with someone like him. So a company like Nike will do anything to protect him and his image.” She still had a relationship with Nike when reports of her escort work prompted the company to drop her. Now, she said, “I’m on an island trying to protect myself.”
SFH scandal was mega-clicks for brojos farm. Basically a once-in-decadal event. -
If she wins Olympic gold, the sponsors will come back
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-Golf is difficult but it isn't a real sport
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Nancy Lopez can still make a comeback!
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The comparison that Crouse makes between Woods and Favor Hamilton is a faulty one. Favor Hamilton was long retired from word class racing when reports of her escort work surfaced in 2012 (and long past the age where a comeback would have even been physically possible), whereas Woods was still competing and winning in 2009 when Elin called Rachel.
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Falacious Reasoning wrote:
The comparison that Crouse makes between Woods and Favor Hamilton is a faulty one.
Yes, but you're not supposed to notice the obvious. -
Gee maybe because Tiger won the Masters while Suzy is still *****ing it up on Instagram
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Yep, Tiger hasn't retired yet. Then he'll get the mental illness a year after, and it will be downhill from there out.
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And here I was wondering why transgender persons like Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner don't get comebacks.
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an honest assessment wrote:
Gee maybe because Tiger won the Masters while Suzy is still *****ing it up on Instagram
There you go again, thinking that someone has to "earn" an comeback, as if it were an object of merit.
Thankfully, we as a society are more and more coming to the inevitable realization that there is an inherent right to comebacks, and so we must provide so that all can experience them. -
Hamilton versus Woods: Men who sleep with multiple cocktail waitresses and multiple female servers at breakfast diners tend to be on a loftier social level than prostitutes.
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Women aren’t interesting. Look at Desi
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Accidents happen wrote:
And here I was wondering why transgender persons like Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner don't get comebacks.
Au contraire the whole Caitlin thing was for sure a "comeback" in his/her mind.
"Oooohh! I'm back in the limelight for a minute!!" -
I thought this article was such a stretch.
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She still had a relationship with Nike when reports of her escort work prompted the company to drop her.
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First, it's sooooo rare for a woman to get caught up in something like this that there is no standard-bearer. It's too uncommon so when a woman does get caught up in it, she feels the bulk of the criticism and pressure from society as a whole.
I think society is just more accepting that men will be "dogs" because that's kinda hardwired into us. And again, it happens so frequently with men that the media is like meh, what's next? -
Also, it comes down to the individual's own personality. I think women are just more likely to feel ashamed and as a result, are less likely to try and stage a comeback....
I can't think of any woman ni sports outside of Suzy Favor who was caught up in something like this. -
SHW thinker wrote:
an honest assessment wrote:
Gee maybe because Tiger won the Masters while Suzy is still *****ing it up on Instagram
There you go again, thinking that someone has to "earn" an comeback, as if it were an object of merit.
Thankfully, we as a society are more and more coming to the inevitable realization that there is an inherent right to comebacks, and so we must provide so that all can experience them.
Huh?
