I’m giving virtually everyone a pass on whatever they’re saying right now. Especially the women, who skated last out of all the figure skating competitions. They’ve been in a super intense period of training, competition and global media madness; I think they are all punch drunk (and/or, in some cases, probably drunk) from the stress and craziness that is the olympics.
Co-workers/friends were elite athletes, and what they described sounded pretty nuts. And in all of that, they are supposed to compete at their very very best.