Verbing weirds language, but for some reason it also funs language.

(j/k)

It's particularly common in the balling arena. Sporting appears to verbalise like nobody else can. They probably medal in it.

ok, enough, enough, I admit it - I hateses it.

You're hateful towards it?

Personally I'd probably interpret "to medal" as "to meddle" and misunderstand completely.

its needs

But if an amoeba pretended to win the Olympics, would they pseudopodium ?

In the amoeba Games, they keep a watchful eye on the winners during the anthems, lest they wind up with a single very large medalist, after phagocytosis.

(I remember someone —Lambert Meertens?— trying very hard to come up with non-applicable "pure" mathematics word problem involving how to best arrange an ameboid tournament, but of course it was all just a thin disguise —mathematical Groucho Marx glasses!— on top of a very lucrative applied problem: optimal reduction of an operator tree into an accumulator)

I'd settle for TFA using `who`/`whom` properly :)