Lupingosei
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The US lost against Canada in women's soccer.
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Tokyo Summer Olympics 2021... I mean 2020 Thread
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AJUMP23
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Blame Canada. They really should have lost to the Netherlands.
The women's team 3 games where they failed to score. This being one of them.
AJUMP23
Member
The two Italians winning gold medals yesterday was lovely. The one in the 100metere the other with a shared gold in the high jump. Especially the high jump kinda gets two me as both men are so overjoyed and both men are completely happy to share the gold. It embodies the Olympics.
Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi decide to share the Gold Medal in the men's high jump final at the Olympics : sports (reddit.com)
Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi decide to share the Gold Medal in the men's high jump final at the Olympics : sports (reddit.com)
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard out of weightlifting after failing to register successful lift
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard makes Olympic history but fails to record a successful lift in the women's +87kg weightlifting.
www.bbc.com
it is interesting that these trans athletes don't seem to have a clear advantage
Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard out of weightlifting after failing to register successful lift
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard makes Olympic history but fails to record a successful lift in the women's +87kg weightlifting.www.bbc.com
it is interesting that these trans athletes don't seem to have a clear advantage
Not going to post much on this topic cause I am not nearly informed enough so unlike alot of the Internet I probably should either be quiet or learn.
From the article below.
In 2004, the IOC permitted the inclusion of transgender athletes to compete in theory within their assigned gender. A decade later the governing body announced that those that have transitioned from male to female can compete in women's sport – without requiring surgery – if they have remained female for at least four years and kept testosterone levels below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months.
Hubbard qualifies having met international weightlifting rules which follow the 2015 guidelines that dictate she only needs enough medication to lower her testosterone to below 10 nmol/l. However, sporting federations are allowed to set their own tighter guidelines.
Who is Laurel Hubbard? Transgender weightlifter who will make history at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
While Hubbard's inclusion at the Olympics has been criticised in some quarters, her involvement will be a milestone for trans athletes
www.telegraph.co.uk
I personally don't believe people are going to be doing the long con of pretending to be a female for four years whilst taking medication to lower your testosterone. I also think we should able to admit that we don't have 100% way to determine sex. Chromosome don't work and neither does gonad's.
Lukaku's First Touch
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He looks like he hasn't trained in anyway and just came out of the pub.Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard out of weightlifting after failing to register successful lift
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard makes Olympic history but fails to record a successful lift in the women's +87kg weightlifting.www.bbc.com
it is interesting that these trans athletes don't seem to have a clear advantage
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
I know you're just virtue signaling to your peers, but she is a trans woman. no need to be hateful to people that have done nothing to you.
Sadly, decided to view that person's comment (have already put them on the ignore list), I don't get the decision to actively disrespect other human beings by actively using incorrect pronouns.
In real life under specific circumstances, there could have been an excuse of a mistake but not here.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Congrats on Canadian women's soccer team!
Biles is going to do balance beam. So mental health disappeared less than a week later.
Biles is going to do balance beam. So mental health disappeared less than a week later.
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Do you think mental health issues are constant? Or binary?
Smarter people than me thought that beams were probably the easiest ones to deal with as it's the one with the least amount of flips relative to all of the events. It's also her last possible event at these games.
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But didn't this person take place in a qualifying event, where at least a minimum level of skill was demonstrated? Who sponsored this person? Surely there must be some minimal standards that need to be met...or can litterally anyone that is affiliated with a club get into the olympics?
Please pardon my lack of knowledge on the topic.
Please pardon my lack of knowledge on the topic.
You referring to Laurel Hubbard?
Basically yes, they would have qualified in a qualifying event. Only host countries get a free entry to events (I am not sure if it's for all events)
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DKehoe
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Which person are you talking about?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
How do you think mental health works?
Raven117
Member
I think it had to do with the twisties (which is a by-product of pressure...but thats a different discussion). She has stated that twisties don't really effect her on balance beam.
Regardless, I don't think she gave up the opportunity to compete in the all around (which is GOAT stuff), to just be on the balance beam in some sort of long con.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I had no idea mountain biking was an Olympic sport. Nor handball. Learning new things this year.
The transgender person.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
The transgeneder woman lost? Not surprised. She was not an athlete among her peers. Male or Female.
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DKehoe
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Turning on the TV and stumbling across something you previously had no clue about is one of the fun things about the Olympics.
T8SC
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Watched the interview with the Gadirova twins and it was so refreshing to see such happiness, gratitude and appreciation. Not an ounce of anything else, no complaints, just two young girls loving life even if they didn't get a medal. Hopefully they'll go on to achieve even more in 2024.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Update. Player on the team did a giant apology and said they thought the village hotel bedding were gifts for athletes, so they took them. Since they ran out of luggae room, they junked their Olympic gear.Sad and funny at the same time.
Mexican Olympians seethe at discovery of softball uniforms in trash
Olympians representing Mexico see the act as an affront to the national identity, but the country's softball federation president said it's simply a case of having too much cargo to take back.www.espn.com
Mexico pitcher 'sorry' for team apparel left behind
Danielle O'Toole, a former All-American at the University of Arizona and a member of the Mexican softball team in Tokyo, posted an apology on Instagram after players were criticized for leaving team apparel in the trash at the Olympic Village.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
That's because she wasn't an athlete. Only made it as far as she did because she went trans. Men are stronger than women. There's no denying that. To do so would be to deny science.Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard out of weightlifting after failing to register successful lift
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard makes Olympic history but fails to record a successful lift in the women's +87kg weightlifting.www.bbc.com
it is interesting that these trans athletes don't seem to have a clear advantage
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Side topic to Winters and NHL, looks like no deal so far on marketing rights where maybe it's a tit for tat co-promotion or whatever. NHL wants some control, but IOC saying no. Similar to how pro league players in Olympics, they never say Durant plays on Brooklyn in the NBA and stuff like that.
www.espn.com
Sources: NHL, IOC unable to agree on rights deal
The NHL and the International Olympic Committee were unable to secure an expanded media rights deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the league still intends to send its players to Beijing, sources told ESPN.
RockOn
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Football
Slaylock
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If it was football, where was the quarterback?
Kenpachii
Member
If it was football, where was the quarterback?
That's handball
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RockOn
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Nope, your thinking of American Football for wimpsIf it was football, where was the quarterback?
Bullet Club
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StreetsofBeige
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Word origins - Heat (when to comes to racing).
Back in the 1600s, when kings weren’t hiding in oak trees or being beheaded, they enjoyed a spot of horse racing. And when they took their horse for a gallop to prepare it for a race, they called this a heat, for the obvious reason that they were warming the horse up. The word then came to be used for the race itself, and later for a qualifying race in a bigger contest.
Back in the 1600s, when kings weren’t hiding in oak trees or being beheaded, they enjoyed a spot of horse racing. And when they took their horse for a gallop to prepare it for a race, they called this a heat, for the obvious reason that they were warming the horse up. The word then came to be used for the race itself, and later for a qualifying race in a bigger contest.
Cyberpunkd
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Did you read the article? Before transitioning she competed professionally as a weightlifter and held national records . She is also decorated from another international events.
My guess would be on age - she is 43.
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Bullet Club
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"LOOK AT MY NIPPLES!"
Lukaku's First Touch
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it wasnt a mistake. She is for women, He is for men, They is for multiple people. That person isn't a woman, just a man that had surgery and/or took some pills, whatever they and you might believe.
I dont care what they do and good for them if they want to be like the other gender, but dont expect me to suddenly go blind for facts just for their feelings.
That snowflakes like you put me on ignore because I triggered you with basic facts doesn't bother me in the slightest
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McCheese
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The BBC's obsession with Biles is legit scary! I tried to watch the women's gymnastics and they completely brushed over the gold medal winner to talk about how Biles is under the most pressure, is an inspiration, can literally do no wrong etc. I don't think I even caught the name of the person who won the event. There were these incredibly young Chinese competitors too, crying their eyes out after their performances; not a single word about them, until one of them went up to Biles to wish them luck at which point it from 0 to 100 "Meeting her idol Biles" "Biles showing sportsmanship"; what's up with the cult like obsession with her?
To be fair, it's true for all of the big stars. She has kinda taken the place of Phelps and Bolt in terms of interest.
I thought it was a bit annoying and unfair as well.
I am trying to juggle watching the track events and the sports climbing.
Did the people that came up with the "they" adressing, ever thought about the fact that, unlike english, many languages (including my native language) have a gender attached to that plural? I could never address a person like that in a satisfactory way in my language, if i tried a million times...
Facts lol.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they
Go look at the definition of They
You probably believe that biology is simple. Go educate yourself. It's complicated.
XY gonadal dysgenesis - Wikipedia
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I don't think they would care so much if you highlighted that fact to the person in question. They has been used as a pronoun for a person whom you don't know their gender for ages.
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DKehoe
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Commentators tend to focus on the stars. I was watching some of the coverage on Sunday and saw some of the golf. They kept talking about Rory McIlroy (I don't follow golf but have heard of him) despite a bunch of other players being ahead of him.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Dont worry Simone. We already know it's all about you.
www.espn.com
Biles wins bronze in return: 'Doing this for me'
Simone Biles won bronze during the Tokyo Olympics balance beam final Tuesday, a week after she took herself out of several competitions to focus on her mental health.
Speaking of golf, I think it would be cool to limit the field to amateurs or a specific age bracket. Doubtful it would ever happen though. Reason I would like it is that it kind of of just feels like a run of the mill tournament to me.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
My friends and I talk about this sometimes.
Should Olympics be for amateurs? Or open it up to everyone (best of the best).
Doesn't make sense if Olympics is supposed to be about gold medals, being the best with world records if it's only amateurs.
But then people will say it's not fair paid pro leaguers kick ass and scoop up medals. Paid pros shouldnt get a chance to win. They've already succeeded. Give others some glory.
But then, not every sport even has pro leagues. Is it fair Michael Phelps wins a million medals with giant endorsements even though there's no pro swim league?
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Bullet Club
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Go Boomers!