I find it extremely frustrating that people feel free to call me "rude" or talk about my tone but never consider how people speak to me on that subreddit.
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Today it's been about nitpicking the announcements from the Mexican gym fed around Landi. A lot of people using google translate and secondary school Spanish to parse wording to the point where I thought I was going crazy and had to ask a couple of people whose first language is Spanish to confirm.
One of the google translate aficionados decided to ask the Mexican gym fed and what appears to be every Mexican international gymnast to confirm the news. Using goggle translate and copy paste. I shutter to know what that question looks like to a native speaker.
Mostly I'm being chastised for passing around rumor and gossip. But ... the gym world is an extremely small society and reporting on news within it often involves going to insiders and asking them if they know what this is. I did that with two different sources.
It's crazy cuz a certain podcaster can just say things that don't even make sense and it's fine because "she knows people guys, she wouldn't just make stuff up", but you using actual trusted sources and *the Mexican Olympic Federation* is "spreading rumors"
But between native Spanish speakers saying the announcements don't seem anywhere near as ambiguous as reddit thinks, and the same kinds of people who know who is moving to what gym... I'm not sure why this is being so interrogated.
If @sarahzi1998.bsky.social was held to the standards I was being held to here there would be no news out of the Ukrainian gym fed that matched the actual reality.
If I had to wait for an official statement or press release to report news the 2024 Rhythmic Euros scandal would just be a bunch of Polish news articles that could be dismissed as sour grapes until 2 weeks ago when FIG confirmed the broad strokes of what I'd been reporting happened.
I just want to let you know that I am endlessly grateful for everything you do for the subreddit and gymnastics community!! I’m sorry that people are so rude to you for just sharing info:(
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