Israel made hard tryers everywhere proud (probably) by simply showing up to race in a sport they’ve never competed in before. Did they come in last? Well, yeah. But they did it, and they’re pretty damn proud of themselves.
In case you weren’t glued to your screen for that particular race, here’s what happened. Israel fielded their first ever Olympic bobsled team at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsled event. They finished dead last after two runs. There were no medals, they stood on no podium, and expressed zero confusion about the scoreboard. If you’re scratching your head about why they’re so proud of coming in dead last, here’s why: Israel has essentially zero winter sports infrastructure. There are no domestic bobsled tracks, and no alpine training culture. In order to train, the team had to travel abroad, and work to qualify through the long and very bureaucratic Olympic pathway. They’re claiming that their win here isn’t about final ranking placement, it’s about participating in a sport that they honestly had no business being in in the first place.
Listen, I want to point and laugh as much as you do, but here’s the deal: coming in last place at the Olympics still means that you’re an Olympian, which is more than most of us eating our second bag of potato chips for the day while yelling at the TV screen will ever be able to claim. One doesn’t simply walk into the Olympics and say “Hi, I would like to compete please,” and then sign up for a race like it’s the Turkey Trot. You definitely don’t accidentally end up at the Olympics with a 1,600-pound missile shaped speed vessel on blades. Coming in last in a sport that involves sliding down an ice chute at the kind of speed that makes your lips all flappy is braver than 99.9% of people typing comments on the internet.
If you’re going to choose a place to redefine what ‘success’ is, the Olympics is one hell of a place to do it. These games aren’t just about winning medals (though, that’s got to feel pretty nice), they’re about expanding into new sports, and maintaining friendships with people in countries other than your own. And let’s be real, being bad at something publicly is one of the more important steps towards not being bad at it anymore. Israel joining the bobsled race at all is like being the kid playing catch outside of your older brother’s baseball dugout and getting invited to sit with the team.
If you want to see some Israeli stars who know they’re number one and don’t need a medal to prove it, have I got the idea for you. Israeli OnlyFans creators are so far from last place, it’s unreal. They’re consistent, they adapt quickly when they see something needs a change, and they’re always working to improve their craft. These women have a serious growth mindset when it comes to their approach to the work that they do, their audience engagement is off the charts, and when it comes to ROI for the subscribers who are investing in them, well. It’s OnlyFans, you get what you pay for. The bobsled team finished their last run down the chute and declared last place a victory, but Israeli OnlyFans creators are seriously out here comparing daily feedback and totals so they can make sure that the next day’s content hits harder, and makes more money. One group trained for years to finish last (again, at the freaking Olympics, so still way cooler than I’ll ever be), and the other works relentlessly to climb the rankings, boost subscriptions, and dominate their chosen niches. It turns out that repetition works better than gravity.
To bring the focus fully back to the Olympic team… the situation is a twitch absurd, but I can’t mock them. They represented a country with no winter sports culture in a sport that literally tries to eject you at top speed. That alone is worthy of a slow clap, and a respectful hat tip. Congratulations to the bobsled team for showing up, finishing, and for proudly sliding in last so that future teams can (hopefully) go up from there. Someone had to be first at being last, and Israel claimed the honor for themselves. History books may not remember that Israel won last place, but they sure will remember the moxy it took for them to compete in the first place.
