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A mistake made in the lift and jump, but great strength to keep her safe
Edit: added context https://www.balls.ie/olympics/ireland-rugby-sevens-viral-clip-olympics-606397
Jul 31, 2024 3:32 PM
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A mistake made in the lift and jump, but great strength to keep her safe
Edit: added context https://www.balls.ie/olympics/ireland-rugby-sevens-viral-clip-olympics-606397
ThisNumberHasAName
I used to think I had a competitive spirit. But then today happened, and I discovered that taking a wedgie for the team might cross a line for me.
carmexcoveredlips
I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!
FunkyButttlovin
whizzer
To the person calling someone on the USA team a tank...ya... Look at this. *Flex*
MahadmaGaudi
mity0k23
Olympic Wedgie - new sport.
lazysombrero
Loved how the opponent was also concerned for her safety
skittlebog
I love that the other team did not hesitate to offer help. That's sportsmanship.
irespectfullycourtyermam
Pro wrestling skills on display
ChickenROAR
"Annnnnnnnnnnnnd Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."
Vergenbuurg
"...ve had the time of my life..."
CommanderHamDemander
"No, I never felt my shorts like this before"
ifIScreamIntoTheVoid
What are those shorts made of? Every piece of sportswear I've ever worn would have stripped off like wet toilet paper.
Baltzdelirium
That core strength though
TheCroaker
How about the strength of those shorts
FeIineDisrespectFromBehind
That wedgie though
newsguycraigevans
How about grip strength. Super impressed.
ShadowSayain
And how her thumbs didn’t dislocate
tyner156
Special mention for the third Irish player coming in at the end, beeding profusely...
IRCBrink
from a few years ago, some of you might remember
Cryolith
For a half sec I thought that shirt said Dahl, wondering where on Pandora this was from lol
ByronGetronfree
BEAST!!
Trugster
strong Mtawarira vibes there
lowervVillain
LokJok
SheepySleepySmuggler
In rugby and rugby 7s, if you lift a player for restarts or lineouts, you are responsible for them getting down safely or you will be penalised so there is a lot of responsibility on the lifter.
samwyze
You can really see the responsibility in her face as she slams her teammate back to the ground with abs of solid granite.
Brittanicus1
She has blood in her mouth guard. Absolute bad ass.
Sullivanish
SploogeMcDuck316
Oh it has awaken
nclu
Oh no, I've been into tough girls for a very long time already
RichardNunez
Yeah, too late.
captainhappen
It woke up a long time ago
MusicPenguin
Too late.
Sheldonian
I got you, I got you! Wait I don't got you, I don't got you! OMG JFC, OK I GOT YOU!
mieper3
Okay hear me out here... how about a new sport... that combines cheerleading and rugby... into 1 sport... 🤔
DarkSock
Rug cheering? No, wait…
justherefortheconfession
add archery to the mix and I'm in
trueunpopularopinions
And played on ice! Oh, wait, skates probably wouldn't be well suited for cheerleading stunts
JoeMangoJello
Iced Rugby Archeeryleading?
justherefortheconfession
You score points by sticking an arrow into the ball (double points if someone from the other team is actually holding it and you pin the ball to them).
afroniner
There's literally this exact thing that was posted here years back but from Men's rugby. Crazy resemblance.
IRCBrink
yea i remember it, had a google and here it is
afroniner
Yes! Thank you!!
ShoopDeDoop
Throw it to me next.
wseslar
The ball or the girl?
ShoopDeDoop
Asking the important questions.
allenvasher3000
I'm kind of surprised those shorts survived that
johnson442
The first ones didn't, so they began redesigning them until they did.
BlueTyphoon
too bad
johnson442
Well, Europe isn't the only place these games are shown, so...
IRCBrink
these sort of lifts happen quite a lot, they are built to handle them :D
DaCareBearStare
All my kit in college was old and hand-me-downs, my shorts ripped slightly during a practice lift... unfortunately, this led to the creation of my team nickname. In true rugby form, it's unfit to print.
RetroBlast
Atomic wedgie!
mercure
I did not know it was a Olympic competition.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Let's all observe a moment of silence for this woman's cooter. Gives the phrase "taking one for the team" a new meaning.
EggFooYung
The Dreaded Rear Admiral.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Nerfgunner
She had the chance for a friendly fire powerbomp, went wedgie
SteveMND
This feels like one of those "that can't possibly be a legal move, can it?" situations that turn out to be 100% acceptable.
cousteau
Look, if I saw someone pull this in ANY sport I'd immediately think that someone able to pull this stunt should be allowed to. Even in chess.
ryukochan
I have yet to comprehend what constitutes illegality in rugby. All the stuff that looks gnarly is fine.
DemSumBigAssRidges
I played rugby with very little knowledge of the game. I used to tell people, "don't throw the ball forward, and no tackles above the shoulders. Now get out there and hit someone!"
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
That's pretty much how even top players face it. Only the ref actually knows all the rules so until there's a whistle, they're going.
IRCBrink
It is a common move used and sometimes results in illegal tackles from the other team. You can jump to catch the ball and cannot be tackled while in the air because it is dangerous. Using this, being lifted by another player (or sometimes two or more players) you can get extra height and still cannot be touched until the ball catcher has touched the ground again. Examples like this however are how it could potentially go horribly wrong, and ref could potentialy tell the team not to do it again
trasneoir
The ref can't "tell the team not to do it again", but an unsafe lift can be penalized as Dangerous Play if need be.
I once PK'd a prop who lifted the wrong jumper at the lineout, then abandoned the jumper in midair so he could prepare for the subsequent maul.
SteveMND
Yeah, definitely seems a dangerous gamble. Theoretically, the person lifting her up into the air could still be tackled then, right? I literally know no rules about rugby.
IRCBrink
no, taking out the person holding them would also be very dangerous (even more so), so also illegal. it is a very common move in rugby. "In open play, any player may lift or support a team-mate. Players who do so must lower that player to the ground safely as soon as the ball is won by either team. Sanction: Free-kick." https://www.world.rugby/the-game/laws/law/9 (26)
Manse84
No. Only the ball carrier can be tackled. And once the ball carrier is down, the ball has to go backwards and between the legs of the maul (the little pile of players in a tackle). This is why you'll see the defense make a tackle, then a second offensive player will dive into their own teammate so the motion of the ball carrier stops. Once it's stopped, only the players in the maul are allowed to be within 2(?) meters
IRCBrink
oh yea, completely forgot you cant tackle someone off the ball :)
Wonkable
Could one be lifted, catch the ball, then be carried into the scoring zone? Assuming catcher didn't touch ground? Know nothing about rugby
IRCBrink
However, you could have the lifter and catcher already in the scoring area and then ifted and dropped straight down to score a try. This would be quite hard, as the lifter and catcher would both need to be behind the kicker of the ball before they kick it, then run into position and lift and catch. possible and has probably happened when very close to the line, but tbh would be quite risky if you have that much time and space to prepare then surely there would be easier ways to score
IRCBrink
No, you need to bring the catcher back to the ground safely and quickly. You cannot hold them in the air after they have caught the ball, and definitely cannot start moving forward while holding them in the air.
Wonkable
Thank you
StrandedonEarth
Strong girl! Farm?
VanessaBludgeons
I saw a post on Twitter this morning about these ladies. It was post by one of those "Transvest-igators" claiming that these are all trans women and the replies in the thread were about what you'd expect for the current state of Twitter. It's really disturbing.
jeffois
Derry farm.
MyNameGifOreilly
Yes*
SoyDivision
Taken
ShoofNuffin
ProfessorDumbass
Weaned on Guinness, not formula
Quessir
Guinness with added milk and a hot poker that was in the fire. That's what we got given as kids. Presumably for the iron content, with the poker burning away the alcohol. We absolutely loved it, though probably more for the novelty than anything else.
Quessir
In Ireland? Most likely.
TellusEidolon
As long there isn't a potato famine that is.
mynamespaul
Rugby’s actually a “posh” sport in Ireland, and most of its player base is from urban areas. There are rural areas - especially in Munster - where rugby is popular, but that’s the minority of players. The median rugby player in Ireland is unfortunately still a posh lad from the suburbs of Dublin who played senior cup rugby for a private school. Unfortunately. Source: played for one of the few feeder teams into professional rugby in the country that wasn’t affiliated with a private school.
cousteau
I lived in the second largest city in Ireland for some years and you would often see farmers giving their cows a ride in the city center.
One of the questions in the census was "Please state your profession and size of the farm in case you have one".
So yeah, I got the impression that farms were a big thing around there.
mynamespaul
Huh? Yes Ireland has farms, of course, our produce is famous… but every country has farms? In Ireland about 2% of people work in agriculture. In the USA it’s >10% (according to google, at least). We’ve a population of 5 million, and 2 million of them live in the capital city & surrounding areas alone. Most of our population is urban, and i’d _just_ explained how rugby skews even more rich and urban…I just think it’s a lazy stereotype to see an Irish person and say “Irish? bet she’s a farmer lol”
Quessir
Very much so. Ireland's cities are small and it's towns much smaller - everything in between them is either a tiny village or farmland. It's nearly all farmland. Ireland was covered with massive forest but through abuse of absentee landlords leading up to the famine, seeking to increase profit, as much of the land as possible was farmed. The country now produces eighteen times as many food as is needed to feed the population.
mynamespaul
We produce so much food ‘cause the land is so arable & weather so conducive to growing. Only 2% of Irish people are in agri-sector. Much less than the >10% if folks in the USA. We’re a mostly urban, mostly tech/pharma/finance/service driven economy and have been for several decades now. Our agricultural sector is a small but important part of our economy/culture & Irish people are proud of it — but it’s a bit distasteful to assume an Irish person is a farmer based on nothing but nationality
Quessir
I'm not at all surprised that's the case in Dublin, but the only team I have even the slightest passing familiarity with, Cobh Pirates, are definitely not that kind of club. I don't doubt that you're right but I'm not sure how much of an outlier the Pirates club is. Rugby has definitely been getting more popular here in recent years.
Cricket gaining ground enough so that we actually have a national team is the real surprise for me.
mynamespaul
there are rural teams(as I said, esp in Munster), but there’s many more private school affiliated teams, & they produce many more of the professional & national players. My point is, If you’re gonna judge someone’s background based on nothing but their nationality & sport(which is a lazy, imo, but here we are): the typical Irish rugby player is not a rural farmer. They’re a private school, senior cup, business/commerce in UCD, Leinster academy, heinos & horseplay with the boyos kinda vibe
Sullivanish
No, strong girl jump. Strong girl lift. Strong girl catch.
coffeepot583
"Cargo space?" "No, car no go space. Car stay on ground."
VaxxedCanadian
So no farm?
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Quessir
Careful what you say about farms and Ireland. Some people are sensitive about it, apparently. In a way that no farmer that I've ever met is.
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venom181st
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
I hear you, lady.
Aforaseem
VolcanoHerder
Wow this looks exactly like my super religious coworker's wife!
whistlebuzz
It’s always the quiet ones
JackTorranceAtTheBall
BellsTheorem
Having a religious experience.
somethingsomethingwittyhere
She's clearly witnessing a Revelation...
VictusVonGuyver
"Praise pubus!"
hiyo365
"Praise boobus!" - said from owner of already two boobuseses
Thisisabigmistake
My friend has been posting comments from the rugby athletes that are getting hate for being strong women. Olympics are bringing out the incels
keillrandor
See how many Olympic medals they have if you take away all women and non-white male winners :P
raftus
Growing up in Canada we had puck bunnies at all our hockey rinks. I never got it until I was older and was watching womens competitions. Athletic humans are damn attractive. Especially the rugby ladies. Look good AND can carry me? Yes plz
DemSumBigAssRidges
Yeah, women doing things has a tendency to do that. Give the women the attention, not the trolls.
Perfectlynormalhumanbieng
Unfortunately they were out as soon as the opening, I personally don’t even entertain them anymore. I spent a long time debating these brainless meatsacks until I realized I was just exhausting myself in an impossible task.
suiseiseki
That's for the best honestly. It's only worth arguing if there are any listeners/readers that might be swayed since it's been scientifically proven that directly engaging someone on a strong belief just makes them triple down.
madeejit
What would you expect from a pig, only a grunt?
TheGhostOfFutureDisappointments
Which is hilarious because for every incel there's another three dudes in line hoping a female rugby player will send him to valhalla with her thighs.
pres465
1000%
zephyrbell
I'm a woman and 30% of me wants this
thotterpop
I'm confused about the ratio and what that means about the rest of the 70%... But I'll volunteer as tribute
zephyrbell
30% of me wants to be crushed by a woman's thighs, the other 70% wants to do the crushing of a man's head. Basically 30% of me isn't straight.
thotterpop
70%, huh? I like these odds!
ClownishAntics
Coming close to a renaissance painting
Istealfromthefrontpage
The girl in the black bleeding looking like she's having a great time lol.
FigyCSlop
Very baroque era with the chaotic motion
Wolf2Worrior
Beefkins
All we need now is some Christians calling it blasphemous!
DrLOAC
Wow that one girl is bleeding from right above her eye. Rough sport - you’d think some head protection might be in order. Even hockey players have started wearing face guards.
Sensiblyinteresting
It does seem pretty crazy they don't wear any head protection
whateverthevoicestellme
There was actually talk of taking american football back to leather helmets after the effects of repeated collisions on the brain were found. In a way, the pads/helmets make people feel OK with risking concussions from major hits.
mikeatike
And she looks like she is trying not to laugh at the situation.
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
And that’s where modern football split from rugby. People started dying after some nasty head on head collisions happened while wearing early head gear. And from there it was about protecting the player from big hits. Whereas rugby just changed their tackling style and a few rules
Rayxzerox
idk how rugby compares, but keeping the big hits and adding padding only served to reduce acute injuries while amplifying chronic ones. CTE is no joke. Similar thing happened with the addition of boxing gloves, it let's boxers hit harder without shattering their hands, but now the brain takes the full repeated beating instead.
SerialChickenLover
I don’t know where I thought American football came from before but I guess it makes sense it comes from rugby
Grinderslev
Didnt stop brain damage though. See "concussion" great movie
ToonMan4351
memeseeks
This just reminds me of the UFC fight where one guy loses his mouth guard and the other guy stops punching him in the face to put it back into his mouth then begins beating his face again.
Theory89
Hey you forgot the little black cloth hat that some rugby players wear to avoid getting their ears all mashed up.
CoinedWatcher
Rugby players don't use a ball or wear shoes?
MimirOfTheBifrostTeats
There should be a mouth guard on the football side too.
Gayforbae
Rugby guys also wear a hard cup%jockstrap to prevent their balls from getting pureed. Idk if girls have to as well.
Kehy
Yeah, vall protection is a big deal with women
afgncap
I suspect that as much as you don't want ball puree, you don't want ham sandwich turning into spam