Slowtwitch Pet Peeve

Triathlon Forum
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I’m as big a fan of ST as the next guy; love the journalism, debates on the forum, and sense of community. But does it bother anyone else that there are never captions or explanations with the photos in the articles?

For example - in the Van Vlerken article posted this evening, yeah, I want to know what happened in the accident and her recovery timeline. But what I REALLY want to know is who is that giant sun-burned man with his arm around her? How can this photo just be dropped in there like that with no explanation?

Looks like another sleepless night contemplating a caption-less picture on ST for this guy…

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I’m more bothered by those who are tone-deaf to sarcasm.

Worst of all, they’ll never know who they are.

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We do that to torment you. So you will post a thread and get other folks to check out the feature and start guessing.

And don’t call me giant sun-burned man again please.

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giant sun-burned man

Maybe he should go gluten free. No, no wait. Chocolate milk! Wait, paleo.

I wonder if he trains on his race wheels.

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Whole fat. Hand milked.

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Or forum threads with clickbait titles…

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I’m as big a fan of ST as the next guy; love the journalism, debates on the forum, and sense of community. But does it bother anyone else that there are never captions or explanations with the photos in the articles?

For example - in the Van Vlerken article posted this evening, yeah, I want to know what happened in the accident and her recovery timeline. But what I REALLY want to know is who is that giant sun-burned man with his arm around her? How can this photo just be dropped in there like that with no explanation?

Looks like another sleepless night contemplating a caption-less picture on ST for this guy…

Hello Iron-Stork,
The ginat sunburnt man is Dr. Christian Schenk, one of the best sport-traumatologists in Europe, who did the surgery on Yvonne van Vlerken and has saved many top athlete´s careers, especially world-cup skiers after severe crashes. More info: www.dr-schenk.at
Thanks Herbert for the article.

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I grind when people change the font color on obvious sarcasm, yet get the color wrong.

This is pink, representing sarcasm on ST (for some reason).
Also pink.
And yet a 3rd color representing pink.

This is not pink.

Nor is this.

Or this.

This is way out.

If you are that sarcasm impaired and color impaired, just skip the sarcasm. Get it right you frackin morans.