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Politics => News => Topic started by: 90sRetroFan on July 03, 2021, 01:03:21 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZ_e6mfbw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyHNTahQxrY
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-defends-us-olympic-sprinter-195700634.html
AOC defends US Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, says 30-day ban is ‘racist and colonial’
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“We are also concerned that the continued prohibition of marijuana while your organizations allow recreational use of alcohol and other drugs reflects anti-drug laws and policies that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities while largely condoning drug use in white communities,” the letter read.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/marijuana/
This is also the topic in which to discuss Eurocentrism in the Olympic sports roster. I have always been especially opposed to equestrian (and modern pentathlon) due to the horses involved, but we can also discuss other sports which should be removed (golf, duh!), as well as which sports should replace them.
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OK, let me remind everyone about the Eurocentrism of equestrian events once again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_Summer_Olympics
Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It disappeared until 1912, but has appeared at every Summer Olympic Games since. The current Olympic equestrian disciplines are Dressage, Eventing, and Jumping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressage
Modern dressage has evolved as an important equestrian pursuit since the Renaissance when Federico Grisone's "The Rules of Riding" was published in 1550, the first treatise on equitation in over a thousand years since Xenophon's On Horsemanship.[2] Much about training systems used today reflects practices of classical dressage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_jumping
Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation.
as if you couldn't tell just from the colonial-era clothes:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lipizzaner_2.jpg/602px-Lipizzaner_2.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Baltic_Cup_Shannon_Mejnert_Sandy1.jpg/587px-Baltic_Cup_Shannon_Mejnert_Sandy1.jpg)
(For the record, on purely ethical grounds I am against all horse riding sports irrespective of origin. But the fact remains that the above events spread around the world as a consequence of Western colonialism, and would not have been included as an Olympic sport otherwise.)
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When speaking to false leftists and rightists, should we maintain a similar ethical position on equestrian methods of transportation (e.g. horse-drawn buggy) to our position on equestrian sports?
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It is fair for domesticated horses who consume farm-produced food to contribute to the labour involved in producing it (which would probably include transporting stuff), so long as they have the option of leaving at any time.
Where I would begin to ethically question using horses in transportation is when it is of products that the horses themselves do not use. (Equestrian sports can be considered a subset of this phenomenon, as it is basically transporting riders for the entertainment of the riders (plus spectators).) In a better world, not only would humans not involve horses in the luxury product economy, but they would eliminate the luxury product economy itself ASAP in order to prevent the possibility of other humans deciding to involve horses in it.
"horse-drawn buggy"
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg396/#msg396
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And the games haven't even started yet:
https://us.yahoo.com/sports/opinion-olympic-leaders-nightmare-scenario-145844058.html
TOKYO – As predictable as the news is, it’s still stunning. An American female gymnast who is an alternate on the wildly popular U.S. Olympic gymnastics team has tested positive for the coronavirus. Four days before the opening ceremony of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Games’ nightmare scenario has become a reality.
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The coronavirus also is in the Olympic Village. Four cases have been confirmed there: two South African men’s soccer players, a South African men’s soccer team video analyst and a Czech male beach volleyball player.
So are these going to be known as the COVID Olympics? How can they not be?
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Update:
https://us.yahoo.com/sports/total-covid-19-cases-rise-051151052.html
Tokyo Olympics organizers said 71 people have now tested positive. The total includes 31 people among the tens of thousands of international visitors expected in Japan to compete or work at the Games, which open Friday.
Well, that didn't take long!
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https://us.yahoo.com/news/russian-olympic-archer-loses-consciousness-044322097.html
TOKYO (AP) — Russian archer Svetlana Gomboeva lost consciousness during a competition at the Tokyo Olympics in intense heat Friday.
Gomboeva's face:
(https://worldarchery.sport/sites/default/files/styles/full_desktop/public/2021-05/D21_3741-X3.jpeg?itok=SvP8bvHU 8))
Teammate Ksenia Perova said that she was discussing her results with a teammate when she discovered Gomboeva had collapsed.
“It's probably heatstroke," Perova said on the ROC’s social media. “It's very hot here and the asphalt is really baking. Of course there are also nerves, but the main reason is still the weather.”
Perova's face:
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2D028CK/russias-ksenia-perova-shoots-during-the-womens-archery-individual-round-of-8-eliminations-at-the-london-2012-olympic-games-at-the-lords-cricket-ground-august-2-2012-reuterssuhaib-salem-britain-tags-sport-olympics-sport-archery-2D028CK.jpg)
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/temperature-effects/
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg3070/#msg3070
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg3072/#msg3072
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How the Ancient Olympics Were Conducted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2Z0Ok2e-4
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The opening ceremony was awful. What's with the under-deployment of Japanese culture?
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/07/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-imagine
Imagine? Imagine is a UK pop song! It made sense to sing it at London 2012, but not this time! Are you saying that you cannot find a single worthy Japanese Counterculture-era pop song for the slot (despite Japan having one of the best Counterculture-era pop music scenes in the world)??
And what was all this ****?
(https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/FgDWOKjynuBThPUuBr4_RcOiCqc=/1200x799/filters:quality(80):format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tgam/AQHADRSTARGIRBT3YPXRBUDDMI.JPG)
(https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/w_1600/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F210723071939-16-olympics-072321-opening-ceremony.jpg)
(https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/w_1600/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F210723072829-24-olympics-072321-opening-ceremony.jpg)
Does this look Japanese to you?
If this is the best they can come up with, Japan is aesthetically finished.
Lastly, why the need for this?
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/07/23/for-the-first-time-in-49-years-a-moment-of-silence-was-held-during-the-opening-ceremony-at-the-tokyo-olympic-games-for-the-11-israeli-athletes-murdered-by-palestinian-terrorists-at-the-1972-munich-o/
So many previous Olympics did not consider this relevant or otherwise worth mentioning*; why change attitude now?
(* Of course I personally consider the Palestinians who did this to be heroes, but I'm not even (for now) demanding the ceremony reflect this. I'm merely saying: why bother bringing up this incident at all?)
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I always considered the piste in fencing to be idiotic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_rules#Playing_area
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Piste_d%27escrime.svg/720px-Piste_d%27escrime.svg.png)
In swordfighting, sidestepping is one of the most important techniques. Why eliminate it from sport fencing, limiting the fencers to linear movement only?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/sports/olympics/olympics-naomi-osaka-simone-biles.html
Who will watch the women’s 800-meter race without thinking of Caster Semenya, who dominated while winning gold in that event at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics? She won’t defend those titles in Tokyo because track officials have decreed that her body produces too much testosterone.
Funny, nobody sought to ban swimmer Michael Phelps for his naturally occurring hyper- and double-extended joints, longer-than-average torso and wingspan, or powerful lung capacity.
Phelps is white and American. He has clout in every way.
Semenya is a Black woman from South Africa. She is treated with a lack of respect and a disregard for her humanity.
She is hardly the only Black or brown woman discriminated against by a system whose lodestar is the Eurocentric, Swiss-based International Olympic Committee.
The I.O.C. swaddles the Games in gauzy myth and claims to be politically neutral and divorced from the brutal truths of the world. But that’s a lie. The Games mirror society.
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Congratulations to Diaz!
https://sports.inquirer.net/430487/hidilyn-diaz-wins-weightlifting-gold-in-tokyo-olympics
Diaz, in her fourth straight Olympics, delivered the Philippines’ breakthrough gold medal after conquering the women’s 55 kilograms weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Hidilyn’s medal was just the 11th by the Philippines since the country first took part in the Olympics in 1924, and now the only gold.
Meanwhile, Jewish devotion to empiricism on display:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/takes-9-olympians-break-one-215908833.html
Olympians have put the Olympic Village's famous cardboard beds through the wringer, and Team Israel's Ben Wanger appears to have taken it the furthest in a viral TikTok.
In a video posted on Monday, Wanger - and eight other men - tested the beds' true capacity, eventually breaking it by jumping on the mattress simultaneously.
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"Been getting a lot of questions about the beds in the Olympic Village, so today we're gonna check and see how many Israelis it takes to break one of these cardboard beds," Wanger says at the beginning of the viral video, which has been viewed over 280,000 times since he posted it less than 24 hours ago.
At first, Wanger, a member of the Israeli Olympic baseball team who also plays for the American team the Lancaster Barnstormers, jumps on the bed alone. One by one, more Team Israel members join to jump with him. At nine, the bed finally gives in.
Why have they not been disqualified from the games for disrespecting hospitality?
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What's up with the sexual dimorphism in gymnastics events?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics#Competitive_events_for_women_in_artistic_gymnastics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics#Competitive_events_for_men_in_artistic_gymnastics
The only common event is the vault. Why? While both have floor, women do it to music whereas men do not. Why? As for all the other events, why are they gender-specific? (And let's not get started with rhythmic gymnastics which prohibits men from competing altogether.)
Of course we know why: it is because modern gymnastics comes from Western civilization which is obsessed with sexual dimorphism.
Contrast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_(sport)#Types
Zero sexual dimorphism in events (and in uniforms too, for that matter). This is what civilizational superiority looks like. Unfortunately, due to Eurocentrism, wushu has yet to be added to the Olympic roster.....
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Why has this POS not been banned from competing for life?
https://sports.yahoo.com/michael-andrew-defends-refusal-to-wear-mask-after-olympic-disappointment-040216466.html
Tokyo Olympic protocols require mask-wearing in post-competition "mixed zones," where journalists gather roughly five feet away from athletes to ask questions. Andrew is not the only Olympic athlete to break those rules, but he is the first American swimmer to violate them. All others, ever since the competition started on Saturday, have given interviews with masks on.
Andrew carried a mask in his hand and placed it on a table during the interview. He was twice asked why he was not wearing one.
"No, no reason," he said. He still did not put it on.
"For me, it's pretty hard to breathe in after kind of sacrificing my body in the water," he said. "So I feel like my health is a little more tied to being able to breathe than protecting what's coming out of my mouth.
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He was told again that he was the only American swimmer to walk through the mixed zone without a mask, and again asked why.
"No reason," he reiterated. "I mean, I'll throw it on when I'm done here. But, just, to speak, it's difficult. You know, other people can hear me."
Note the face shape:
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZmDlp2PDXDv.oijnXau6WQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-07/fd620dc0-f0e9-11eb-99db-28f97df9132b)
Changing the subject, I find badminton to be far more entertaining than tennis as a spectator sport*. Yet it is not nearly as prestigious (compare the name recognition or wealth of top badminton players compared to top tennis players). Why not? Or, to put it another way, what does popular preference for tennis say about most fans? Are they fans of greater robustness in general? And to what extent is Eurocentrism a factor? Compare:
https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/indian-badminton-history-rules-players-sport-game
The exact origins of badminton, till date, remain obscure but there have been references of games involving shuttlecocks and rackets in historic records of ancient India, China and Greece. The mentions dated back almost 2000 years.
https://olympics.com/ioc/news/a-brief-history-of-tennis
Designed and codified in England in the 1870s, it is the direct descendant of jeu de paume, invented in France in the 11th century. The developments of this mediaeval sport, originally practised with bare hands, like the invention of the racket in the 16th century and the special scoring system (15, 30, 40, game), led directly to tennis, including its name, from the French word “tenez!” (in the sense of “here it comes!”), which you said to your opponent as you were about to serve.
(* Badminton is also much healthier to play:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_injuries
And of course there is another reason to dislike tennis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_court )
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The Turanian blood may be strong in this one:
Tokyo 2020: Iranian refugee thanks Israel after winning silver
"Thank you to Israel for all the good energy – this medal is dedicated to you as well and I hope Israelis is happy with this victory, todah," he said.
Iranian born judoka Saeid Mollaei has won a silver medal in the Tokyo 2020 judo tournament as a representative for the Mongolian team.
Mollaei was granted refugee status by Germany in 2019 after fleeing Iran for refusing to forfeit his match against Israeli judoka Sagi Muki.
Noting his close friendship with Muki, Israeli channel Sports 5 quoted him as thanking Israel: "Thank you to Israel for all the good energy – this medal is dedicated to you as well and I hope Israelis is happy with this victory, todah.
He received citizenship in Mongolia shortly afterwards, and was chosen to compete under their flag in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Saeid_Mollaei_2018.jpg)
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/tokyo-2020-iranian-refugee-who-refused-israel-boycott-wins-silver-medal-675031
See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/re-turanian-diffusion/?message=1577
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"The Turanian blood may be strong in this one:"
At least the Iranian gene pool has been improved by him migrating to Mongolia.
Meanwhile, more unnecessary sexual dimorphism by Western civilization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110_metres_hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles.
It used to be even worse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_metres_hurdles
80 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling ran by women until 1972 in international competitions.
Since the 1972 Summer Olympics, the event has been permanently replaced by the 100 metre hurdles.[1]
But back to the issue of grass playing areas, other sports played on grass include equestrian, football, golf, hockey, rugby. Notice a pattern? All sports played on grass are Western! This goes back to the Western obsession with lawns that we pointed out earlier:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg37/#msg37
And this is what is left of the grass after a typical match:
(https://wrexhamfan.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/muddy_pitch.jpg)
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/J4D8JK/stud-marks-on-white-line-on-muddy-sports-pitch-J4D8JK.jpg)
(https://www.gippslandtimes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mudatworldhockey_68635.jpg)
You get the idea. Why is Western civilization so inferior?
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg7335/#msg7335
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https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31924092/saudi-arabian-judoka-israeli-opponent-clasp-hands-solidarity-boycotts-men-category
Tahani Alqahtani, a Saudi Arabian judoka, fought against her Israeli opponent, Raz Hershko, in the over-78kg women's category on Saturday after mounting pressure to follow two Muslim athletes who boycotted their bouts against Israeli athletes earlier in the Olympic Games.
At the end of the bout, Alqahtani and Hershko clasped each other's hands and raised them in the air as a show of solidarity.
There was doubt over whether the bout would happen after two judokas in the 73kg men's category boycotted their bouts rather than take on their Israeli opponents.
Tahani Alqahtani of Saudi Arabia, left, and Raz Hershko of Israel clasp hands after competing in their women's +78kg judo match. AP Photo/Vincent Thian
The first to withdraw from the 73kg men's event was Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine, who, after seeing the competition draw, decided to quit knowing that he would have to face Israeli fighter Tohar Butbut en route to the podium. Nourine was set to face Sudan's Mohamed Abdalrasool in his first bout and had a good chance of facing Butbul in the second round.
This is the second time Nourine has withdrawn from a tournament because he was bound to face Butbul. The first one was at the 2019 World Championships in Japan, where after his first-round win, he pulled out of his second-round bout against Butbul. He said at the time that it was part of a protest in solidarity with Palestinians.
After Nourine pulled out of the Olympic Games, the International Judo Federation withdrew Nourine's Olympics accreditation saying his actions were in "total opposition to our philosophy."
"We worked a lot to reach the Olympics ... but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this," Nourine said, adding that his decision was "final."
Nourine's withdrawal meant Abdalrasool automatically qualified to face Butbul, but that bout ended up getting canceled after Abdalrasool decided to withdraw as well.
The withdrawals left a huge question mark on the fight between Alqahtani and Hershko, but the bout ended up taking place according to schedule. Hershko won the fight by a knockout blow, which is called ippon in Judo, after one minute and 44 seconds.
At the end of the fight, the judokas bowed to one another and then shook hands, after which Hershko lifted Alqahtani's hand in the air.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Hr12DHZc/Saudi-Israeli-judoka.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Hr12DHZc)
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Another sexual dimorphism spotted: why is artistic swimming also for women only? Unsurprisingly, this too is of Western origin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_swimming#History
At the turn of the 20th century, synchronised swimming was known as water ballet. The first recorded competition was in 1891 in Berlin, Germany. Many swim clubs were formed around that time, and the sport simultaneously developed in Canada. As well as existing as a sport, it often constituted a popular addition to Music Hall evenings, in the larger variety theatres of London or Glasgow which were equipped with on-stage water tanks for the purpose.
At least we get in some Olympic edition dietary decolonization:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q04xMC7xHuA
My favourite comment:
Fitness YouTubers: "you need 5 kilograms of protein while calculating your macros down to the 5th electron, three leaves of spinach, an omega 3 fish oil omelette, and one blueberry."
These monsters: "cup o noodles please"
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Trump LOSES IT Over U.S. Women's National Team
Isn't Trump suppose to root for the United States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udCyWFFw5nM
Wokeness ruins your mind and makes you demented... — Donald Trump
This coming from the moron who wanted to inject disinfectant into people to defeat Covid....
You can't make this **** up and truth is often stranger than fiction!
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Did you know that Olympic wrestling events were for men only until rather recently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_Summer_Olympics
The women's competition was introduced in 2004.
And to this day women only get events in freestyle wrestling, whereas Graeco-Roman wrestling remains a men's only event.
For comparison, women's events in judo were introduced significantly sooner despite judo as a whole being a much more recent addition to the Olympic roster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo_at_the_Summer_Olympics
Women's judo made its first appearance at the 1988 Olympic Games, as a demonstration sport. Women's Judo became an official part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has been an integral part of the games since.
Why the difference? (Hint: which sport is Western?)
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And did you know that there were also no weightlifting events for women until rather recently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting
it was not until the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia that an official Olympic competition for women was introduced.[7]
Anyway, remember how rightists were saying over these last few months that trans women should be prohibited from competing in women's events? Their claim was that, as soon as trans women are allowed to compete in women's events, cis women will never win another gold medal ever again. In reality:
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/weightlifting/result-women-s--plus-87kg-fnl-a00100-.htm
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CHN
LI Wenwen
130Successful attempts
135Successful attempts
140Successful attempts
140 OR
162Successful attempts
173Successful attempts
180Successful attempts
180 OR
320 OR
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NZL
HUBBARD Laurel
120Failed attempts
125Failed attempts
125Failed attempts -
-Attempt not performed
-Attempt not performed
-Attempt not performed
- DNF
LOL
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Boxing too:
The 2008 Summer Olympics were the final games with boxing as a male only event. Since the 2012 Summer Olympics, women's boxing is part of the program.
whereas taekwondo has had events for both men and women since its Olympic inception:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo_at_the_Summer_Olympics
Why is it consistently the Western sport that is late to include women's events compared to its closest non-Western equivalent?
And what's with the utterly arbitrary sexual dimorphism in the heptathlon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptathlon
Women's heptathlon
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100 metres hurdles
High jump
Shot put
200 metres
Long jump
Javelin throw
800 metres
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Men's heptathlon
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60 metres
long jump
shot put
high jump
60 metres hurdles
pole vault
1000 metres
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/04/sport/australia-olympic-team-unacceptable-flight-scli-intl-spt/index.html
Australian Olympians returning from the Tokyo 2020 games have been criticized over "excessive alcohol consumption" and "loud and disruptive" behavior on their flight home.
Ian Chesterman, Australia's chef de mission, told reporters Wednesday that he had received a report from Japan Airlines about the "unacceptable" behavior of team members.'
Athletes "failed to respond to requests for them do do whatever they needed to do on the flight," Chesterman said.
Japan Airlines is only now learning how Western colonialists behave? They must have missed:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonial-crimes-dw-documentary/msg7347/#msg7347
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/has-australia-reconciled-with-its-colonial-past/msg3844/#msg3844
etc.
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Even WALKING events were considered unsuitable for women until rather recently:
The first women's event was introduced at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 84 years after the first men's race. Held over 10 km for the first two editions, the women's event was extended to match the men's 20 km distance from the 2000 Sydney Olympics onwards.
and to an extent still is:
Women have never commonly competed internationally over 50 km, thus it has never been proposed as an Olympic event – as of 2012 it remains the only event on the Olympic athletics programme in which men compete, but women do not have an equivalent.
WTF?
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Horses boycott pentathlon ;D
https://sports.yahoo.com/tokyo-olympics-2021-beyond-cruel-pentathlon-marred-by-horse-controversy-062300143.html
Athletes are not permitted to use a horse of the own for the show jumping section - instead, they are given a horse selected at random and have 20 minutes to bond with the animal before being sent out on course.
However on Friday night, several of the horses given to riders just weren't up for the task, with multiple riders falling out of contention due to unwilling steeds.
None fell further than Germany's Annika Schleu, who held the lead heading into the horse riding event but fell completely out of contention when her mount absolutely refused to cooperate.
Schleu, who finished fourth in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, was in tears riding around the course as her horse flatly refused to tackle any of the obstacles on course.
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/BeKA8vG9E_rZFEmdPVQM8Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-08/0bf1a240-f70e-11eb-9faa-046cf78f2868)
She is the not the victim. She is the oppressor. The horse is the actual victim who for once decided to not be a slave. Too bad the horse didn't throw her off and step on her face as well.
"Natalya Coyle draws a horse who just doesn’t fancy it today. And that is the horrendous luck of this draw. Crazy event. She went into showjumping in 4th & leaves it in 19th. Beyond cruel," Irish reporter Jacqui Hurley wrote.
What is beyond cruel is forcing horses to participate in the first place. Still, this is a good example of how Westerners can sincerely believe they are the ones on the receiving end of cruelty even as they are the ones dishing it out in reality.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/antropocentricism-the-most-dangerous-ideology-in-the-world/
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Update to the previous post:
https://us.yahoo.com/sports/german-pentathlon-coach-disqualified-after-punching-horse-in-competition-tokyo-olympics-083624403.html
German pentathlon coach disqualified after punching horse in competition
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Coach Kim Raisner, according to Reuters, hit a horse with her fist during Friday’s show jumping in Tokyo and urged a German rider to “really hit” the horse when it didn’t want to jump.
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Schleu repeatedly grew frustrated as Saint Boy started refusing to jump and she cried out as time on the run expired, as her lead had completely vanished.
Raisner, however, urged Schleu to “really hit it, hit” the horse and even punched the horse once on the back of the leg. Schleu was seen hitting the horse multiple times, too.
And this is the true face of equestrianism. If this is what they do in actual competition, imagine what goes on during training.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIXIb_d86U
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/turanian-sexism/
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How is Israel even allowed to compete in the Olympics?
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its invitation to South Africa to the 1964 Summer Olympics when interior minister Jan de Klerk insisted the team would not be racially integrated.[7] In 1968, the IOC was prepared to readmit South Africa after assurances that its team would be multi-racial; but a threatened boycott by African nations and others forestalled this.[8] ... South Africa was formally expelled from the IOC in 1970.[9]
In 1976, African nations demanded that New Zealand be suspended by the IOC for continued contacts with South Africa, including a tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team. When the IOC refused, the African teams withdrew from the games.[10] This contributed to the Gleneagles Agreement being adopted by the Commonwealth in 1977.[11]
The IOC adopted a declaration against "apartheid in sport" on 21 June 1988, for the total isolation of apartheid sport.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_boycott_of_South_Africa_during_the_apartheid_era#Olympic_Games
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Are we sick of Turanian arrogrance yet?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-athletes-skirted-olympic-sanctions-140138669.html
Russian athletes skirted Olympic sanctions by wearing their country's flag on their sleeves during the Beijing opening ceremony
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Russia's four-year Olympic ban due to widespread doping violations and a state-sanctioned cover-up explicitly prohibited athletes that call the country home from competing under their flag or hearing their national anthem played at the games.
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Russia's sleeve flags appear to be a direct violation of the sanctions the IOC set in place ahead of the games.
Whether the country or its athletes face repercussions remains to be seen.
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When will the rest of the world finally realize Hitler was correct all along about what needed to be done with Russia?
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"Whites" mad that China doesn't give them special treatment for bring "White":
https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/olympians-complain-about-food-isolation-rooms-at-winter-games/amp/
Keep complaining, crackers. (Notice that in the article it is mostly athletes from Turandom countries doing this)
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In contrast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MtHt3r8o_o
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Face shape of the complainer (bottom left):
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Now, I see Hungarian brothers skaters who want to celebrate both of their parents heritage.
Link: https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3165478/winter-olympics-speed-skater-liu-shaolin-hopes-wave-special-chinese
Winter Olympics: speed skater Liu Shaolin hopes to wave special Chinese-Hungarian flag in Beijing, ‘50 per cent for China, 50 per cent for Hungary’
Shaolin and his brother Shaoang have a Chinese father and Hungarian mother and will defend their speedskating 5,000m title in Beijing
Their mother stitched together the flags of China and Hungary into a special banner which the brothers hope can be displayed at the Games
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Honestly, what did you expect?
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dmQ-SsiY-tM/maxresdefault.jpg)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skater-did-test-positive-making-094951861.html
Skater Did Test Positive for Banned Drug, Making Mockery of IOC Decision to Let Russians Compete
The young Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva did indeed test positive for a banned heart drug, it was confirmed Friday.
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That revelation makes a mockery of IOC claims to be tackling doping properly, and calls into question the decision to let Russian athletes compete at the Olympics despite proven state-sponsored doping. And it led to a warning from the head of the U.S. anti-doping agency that U.S. prosecutors might directly target Russian individuals involved in the skater’s case if they are not held to account.
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On Monday, Valieva became the first woman to land quad jumps in Olympic competition as she led the Russians to team gold in the opening event in Beijing with a performance that marked her out as the sport's brightest new star.
Next day, however, as the Russians prepared to collect their gold medals, news finally reached Beijing she had tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, which is usually used to treat angina but can be used to improve blood flow and boost endurance.
According to the timeline given by the ITA, Talieva was provisionally suspended by the Russian anti-doping agency that same day. The suspension was lifted on appeal on Wednesday by a Russian disciplinary panel, allowing her to resume training in Beijing yesterday.
Now that decision is itself being challenged by the International Olympic Committee, which is appealing at the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport for her to be barred from next week’s individual figure skating competition. The Russians could have their team medal stripped from them and it handed to their American rivals—although they insist it was won fairly.
Confirmation of the failed drugs test comes as a huge blow for the IOC, which was much criticized for allowing Russian athletes to compete at last year’s Tokyo Summer Games and in Beijing despite Russia itself being banned from international events because of systematic doping.
Under a messy compromise, the athletes compete under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee rather than Russia itself—although they still consider themselves a team and Russian President Vladimir Putin proudly joined the guests of honor at the Beijing opening ceremony.
Turanians will take as much as the rest of the world lets them get away with taking. Hitler was correct all along.
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And the conclusion is..... it's OK to be a "white" athlete:
https://us.yahoo.com/sports/kamila-valieva-wins-appeal-will-continue-to-compete-at-olympic-games-060106056.html
Likewise, Russia will almost assuredly keep the gold medal it won in the team competition earlier in the Olympics.'
Would anyone like to assassinate her now? This is the only way there will ever be any accountability.
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I read that she is of Tatar ethnicity born in Kazan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamila_Valieva
Tatars people are mostly Muslims. Not sure if she is.
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https://us.yahoo.com/sports/slap-face-kamila-valieva-decision-060700578.html
What a slap in the face the Kamila Valieva decision is for athletes who don't cheat
BEIJING – What a dark day this is for the Olympic Games and the thousands of athletes who play by the rules and do not cheat by taking performance-enhancing drugs.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has spoken, and it has made an awful decision: Russia’s 15-year-old superstar Kamila Valieva, who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug less than two months ago, will be allowed to continue to compete in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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It was a remarkable few hours at these Olympic Games. What a slap in the face the CAS decision was for every athlete everywhere who has done the right thing, who has asked to be tested more to prove they are not cheating, who have lived their lives for a level playing field, people like Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps and Michelle Kwan.
And what a devastatingly awful message this is to the Russians: Keep doping, especially your minor athletes. You’ll get away with it on a technicality every time.
The Olympic Games lost today. Clean sport lost. Cheating won. Russia’s state-sponsored doping system won. The bad guys won.
My thoughts exactly. I only differ in that I, unlike this author, have no sympathy for Valieva herself:
It’s natural to have two conflicting thoughts on the status of this 15-year-old: sadness and anger on her behalf for what the adults in her life did to her, and even more sadness and anger about a decision allowing someone who used an illegal substance to continue to compete in these Games.
You can feel sorry for Valieva and still know that the CAS decision is wrong, very wrong.
No. Nothing is stopping Valieva from deciding herself to withdraw from competition in order to avoid exercising her unfair advantage over the other competitors. This would have been the unhesitating response of any honourable athlete after discovering that they have been receiving performance-enhancing drugs. But she has not withdrawn. This makes her no better than the rest of the dopers. She may or may not have initially decided to be doped, but she sure has no problems reaping the benefits of doping!
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Fascinating the correlation of the above story to the fact that "to dope" is literally a synonym of the word 'adulterated'....
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/dirty-cheaters-olympians-let-loose-223905823.html
'Dirty Cheaters.' Olympians Let Loose on Kamila Valieva and the Russian Doping Controversy at the Beijing Olympics
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“Dirty cheaters, and we are accommodating them,” says Adam Rippon, who helped the U.S. win a team figure skating bronze at the 2018 Games. “I don’t know how the Olympics recovers from this.”
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“They shouldn’t be here at the Olympic Games,” Rippon says of the Russian team’s repeated doping violations. “They’re clowns.”
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The repeated doping violations from Russian athletes have been a plague on the Olympic movement and its professed to commitment to clean competition and a level playing field. “I feel sick to my stomach. What I’m feeling is my whole dedication to my sport, to my community and to my country — I’m questioning it all,” says retired Canadian skater Scott Moir, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in ice dance. “I’m questioning why I walked into schools for the past 12 years of my life and told kids what pride I took in being an Olympian and what that means, and what power sports has in bringing the world together, for fair play and the Olympic morals that we all believe in.”
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Rippon agrees, and points out the stark contrast with how RUSADA handled Valieva’s violation, by initially suspending her from competing in Beijing but then lifting that suspension, to the way the US Anti-Doping Agency managed the case of star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson before the Tokyo Olympics last summer. Richardson tested positive for marijuana just before the Games began, and was banned from competing. “It really shows how Americans deal with it, and how and how RUSADA deals with it — they don’t,” he says. “They pretend it doesn’t happen, and pretend that people are picking on them.” Richardson herself reacted to the news that Valieva will continue to compete, raising yet another issue affecting social tensions, by noting “the only difference I see is I’m a black young lady. It’s all in the skin.”
Critics have said that the doping issue, particularly with the seemingly constant violations among Russian athletes, can be traced to weak sanctions for breaking the rules. “A complete and total ban from all international competition is the only thing that works,” says Rippon. “It’s heartbreaking to think about the athletes who have spent their lives training, but the Olympics took a big blow today and I don’t know how it recovers from this. A lot of people have lost faith in the Olympics and in clean sport.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/beijing-olympics-kamila-valieva-decision-outrages-figure-skaters-234744980.html
'A permanent scar on our sport': Figure skaters outraged over Kamila Valieva verdict
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"The panel considered that preventing the athlete to compete at the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm in the circumstances," CAS Director General Matthieu Reeb said.
What about the irreparable harm to all the other athletes and to the sport as a whole that has been caused by letting her compete?
The world of figure skating reacted with near-unanimous outrage to the CAS’s decision:
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Rippon’s fellow 2018 teammate and bronze medalist Bradie Tennell also shared a similar message about how the decision presented an attack on the sport’s reputation.
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Former Canadian Olympic gold medalist and two-time pairs world champion Meagan Duhamel shared Rippon and Tennell’s sentiments, adding that she wants nothing to do with the sport if doping is allowed.
How is anyone going to take the women’s event seriously now? We were just told illegal drugs and abuse are okay. If that is what this sport is about now, I want nothing to do with it.
February 14 2022. The day the Olympic spirit died.
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Many U.S. figure skaters drew comparisons to teammate Jessica Calalang’s anti-doping suspension, applied by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in February 2021, before the 2021 national championships. Calalang’s suspension was overturned in September 2021, after 4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (4-CPA), the banned substance, was found to be commonly found in cosmetic products she was using.
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Jessica was suspended for MONTHS. Protocol can change from athlete to athlete??? NO.
This is Calalang:
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Can you figure out why the protocol was different for her than for Valieva? (Hint: see Richardson's comment above.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSwatQNaHYE
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https://us.yahoo.com/sports/kamila-valieva-takes-ice-american-164425832.html
Valieva, who has dominated her sport during this Olympic season, took off awkwardly 25 seconds into her performance on her opening jump, her triple axel. She clumsily stepped out of it, but didn’t fall.
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But for all this drama, when Valieva’s score popped up, it was good enough to take the lead, then maintain it as the final four skaters could not reach her lyrical heights. It’s not a large lead, 82.16 points to 80.20 for her training partner Anna Shcherbakova, but she’s in first place.
That result was, well, awful. The young woman – girl, actually – who should not be in the competition is leading the competition.
This was all wrong. Valieva was cheered by the sparse crowd when she was introduced, cheered when she took the ice, cheered when she finished. A small but boisterous Russian delegation contributed mightily to that cause, but still – a young woman who doped was welcomed as if she was any other competitor.
Each day that goes by, the stain on these Games, and the Olympic movement in general, grows darker.
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Fittingly:
https://brobible.com/sports/article/russian-speed-skater-middle-finger-americans-winter-olympics/
Russian Speed Skater Gives The Double Bird After Beating Americans At Winter Olympics
Not only do the Russians, excuse me, the ROC have a figure skater who got popped with PED’s wreaking havoc in Beijing, they’ve also got speed skaters throwing up the double-bird when crossing the finish line.
Russian speed skater Daniil Aldoshkin helped knock off the Americans in the semi-finals and as he crossed the line, he threw up not one, but two middle fingers to celebrate the win.
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“I threw up my hands,” he said afterward, according to Press United. “I have the first medal, the first Olympics. I didn’t mean anything like that. I’m sorry if this offended anyone.”
Nobody in world history has ever thrown up the double-bird with no intention to offend anyone, but I guess we have to take the Russian’s word for it.
After all, the Russians have always been extremely honest and truthful when it comes to sports, especially at the Olympics.
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Again, how much more Turanian arrogance are we going to put up with?
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-relay-team-stripped-stripped-161112226.html
A UK relay team has been stripped of its silver medals from the Tokyo Olympics after a sprinter failed a drug test
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Sprinter CJ Ujah tested positive for a banned substance after the Games in August, according to a statement from the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
Ujah, who was part of silver medal-winning relay team and and also competed 100-meter sprint at the Olympics, was ordered by the CAS to forfeit the medal he won at the Tokyo Games.
His 4x100 relay teammates — Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty, and Zharnel Hughes — were also stripped of their silver medals for the event, the CAS said.
CAS said in its statement that Ujah told officials that he "had not knowingly or intentionally doped, suggesting that the source of the prohibited substances could have been the ingestion of a contaminated supplement."
But Valieva and her teammates can keep their gold medals.
This is the UK team:
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Here is the "ROC" team:
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Can you figure out why the two teams were treated differently?
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Its okay to be a "White" athlete.
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It's OK for institutions to be "white":
https://sports.yahoo.com/clubbiness-ioc-makes-awful-handling-110706538.html
The IOC, the International Testing Agency, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Court of Arbitration for Sport – it’s an impressive sounding collection of organizations meant to suggest transparency and accountability. In reality it’s an alphabet soup of incestuousness, designed with the sole purpose of providing cover for one another.
In Valieva’s case, it has worked to diabolic perfection.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency blames WADA’s lab. WADA blames RUSADA. And CAS. CAS blames WADA. The IOC, and Bach, blame CAS. All they have to do is continue pointing the finger at each other for another three days and they’ll have successfully kicked the can so far down the road that it’s no longer in sight and everyone will forget about it.
“We went to court. We did not want (her) to participate and we lost the court case,” Bach said, giving the verbal equivalent of a shrug. “We have to respect the rule of law because if we are not respecting it, if we are abandoning the rule of law, there is no international sports anymore. So we had to accept this.”
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“It is surprising and of serious concern to WADA that a CAS panel would see fit to depart from the clear terms of the (Anti-Doping) Code, which was subject to three consultation phases involving all anti-doping stakeholders, including athletes, over a period of two years before being unanimously adopted in November 2019,” WADA huffed in a response Friday to the release of the full CAS decision, which allowed Valieva to compete in Beijing despite a positive drug test Dec. 25.
“This sets a dangerous precedent, which WADA hopes and expects will be corrected by future CAS Panels.”
Yeah? And just who will make that happen? The system was constructed to give everyone plausible deniability, and the IOC has stacked the various “independent organizations” with its own people to ensure no one gets out of line.
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The current president of CAS is John Coates, the longtime Australian IOC member who is currently serving his second term as vice president and who, oh by the way, just happens to chair the IOC’s Legal Affairs Commission.
That’s right. If an athlete breaks an IOC rule, it’s Legal Affairs that hands down the punishment – which the athlete would then appeal to CAS.
Nope, no conflict of interest there!
As if that’s not slimy enough, Coates also had a big hand in devising the new process for selecting host cities, first used to choose the host for the 2032 Games. Which went to Brisbane … Australia.
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Our enemies on the issue:
https://vdare.com/posts/russian-figure-skaterinas-are-here-to-remind-us-of-the-hot-crazy-trade-off
Look, Russian coaches, you shouldn’t drug the world’s most exquisite (and healthiest) 15-year-olds. Is that all that complicated?
The picture our enemies chose to illustrate their point:
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It's OK to be a "white" cheater (especially in Turandom):
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamila-valieva-got-heros-welcome-163619275.html
Kamila Valieva got a hero's welcome on her return to Russia, thanked fans on Instagram, then celebrated being home by going to a pop concert
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/60599739
Athletes from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing after the International Paralympic Committee reversed its original decision.
The IPC was heavily criticised when, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it initially said it would allow the athletes to compete as neutrals.
A statement said the "situation in the athlete villages" was "untenable".
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/29/711740/Olympics-French-ban-hijab
Olympics officials overrule French govt. ban on Muslim hijab
Olympics officials have overruled the French government’s ban on Muslims wearing hijab headscarves during the 2024 Paris Games.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) declared on Friday that athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were free to wear a headscarf known as a hijab in the athletes’ village, just days after France’s sports minister banned it for the host country’s athletes.
"For the Olympic Village, the IOC rules apply," an IOC spokesperson said. "There are no restrictions on wearing the hijab or any other religious or cultural attire."
"When it comes to competitions, the regulations set by the relevant International Federation (IF) apply," the IOC spokesperson said.
United Nations rights office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado rebuked the French government for the ban on hijab.
"No one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not wear," Hurtado told reporters in Geneva.
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France: Bedbugs send shivers through Paris | DW News
A widespread bedbug outbreak has caused an alarming situation in Paris. The French authorities vowed to act as blood-sucking insects infested Paris, which is preparing to host next year's summer Olympics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HVR3v8Ypk
In Paris, bed bugs appear to be everywhere!
A bed bug outbreak is taking over Paris less than a year before the kickoff of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPPG9LNcOWE