Paris Olympics

[furrowtickler]

What I am amazed with is the Canadian swimmers , hammer throw champions , male and female , our beach volleyball ladies crushing it , and others all in their respective categories being the best in the world

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What I am amazed with is the Canadian swimmers , hammer throw champions , male and female , our beach volleyball ladies crushing it , and others all in their respective categories being the best in the world

As far as entertainment goes, the Canadian ladies beach volleyball team is definitely superior to the Egyptian ladies volleyball.

I get the impression that this sport is only included to attract a certain demographic of viewers who otherwise are not big fans of the olympics.

[agstar77]

As far as entertainment goes, the Canadian ladies beach volleyball team is definitely superior to the Egyptian ladies volleyball.

I get the impression that this sport is only included to attract a certain demographic of viewers who otherwise are not big fans of the olympics.

Women in bikinis , men in shorts. I wonder what demographic this is meant to appeal to?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Women in bikinis , men in shorts. I wonder what demographic this is meant to appeal to?

I didn't know there was such a thing as men's Beach volleyball. Does that help answer your question?

[Blaithin]

Take a guess at how many women are in the pole vaulters DMs after he knocked the bar off with his junk.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Take a guess at how many women are in the pole vaulters DMs after he knocked the bar off with his junk.

My mom has been watching all of the olympics. She told me about the pole vaulting incident. My response was the same as yours. This is about the best advertising he could have possibly hoped for.

[Blaithin]

It seems like the best possible way for a man to lose at a sport.

[seldomseen]

I haven’t seen much of the Olympics at all but tweeter was lite up this morning with a Young Lady pole vaulter from Norway!

[furrowtickler]

This is just wrong

[cropgrower]

well nowadays you are far right if you don't think its OK to have a man beating up a woman on the world stage , who would ever think things would get so insane in the world

[chuckChuck]

Have any of you ever noticed the wide variabilty of characteristics in males and females in the human population? Some are smaller and weaker and some of them are bigger and stronger in both sexes. They were born that way and a few go on to train and compete in sport.

But some of the social conservatives won't accept that variability exists and they think everyone should fit into their narrow bigoted view of the world.

Khelif is a woman.

opinion
Is it fair that some female athletes are born with male traits? No. But it wouldn’t be fair to disqualify them either

[url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-is-it-fair-that-some-female-athletes-are-born-with-male-traits-no-but/[/url]

To clear up misinformation that has been swirling around these two boxers these past weeks, Ms. Khelif and Ms. Lin are not transgender; they were born female, raised female, and have never lived as men. Ms. Khelif was, however, disqualified by the (notoriously corrupt, Russian-run) International Boxing Association after she beat previously undefeated Russian boxer Azalia Amineva in 2023. IBA president Umar Kremlev claimed that DNA test results showed that she (and Ms. Lin) have XY chromosomes. (International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams called the tests by the IBA “so flawed that it’s impossible to engage with it.”) The IOC, for its part, released a new framework on gender inclusion in 2021, noting that individual sport governing bodies should determine who is eligible to compete, and dropping a requirement that female athletes’ testosterone levels be below a certain threshold.

It is easy to suggest that any woman who has XY chromosomes, or high testosterone levels, should be disqualified from competing against other women. But the reality is not so straightforward. Many girls with Swyer syndrome, for example, don’t know that they have XY chromosomes until the age of puberty. Women with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) might be genetically male, but their bodies cannot process testosterone, meaning they get no athletic advantage from testosterone circulating in their bodies. And some women, such as those with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, may have increased testosterone levels but XX chromosomes. So where do we draw the line? At chromosomes? Testosterone? Other physiological differences that give men athletic advantages over women, such as muscle mass, lung capacity or heart rate?

[biglentil]

Mensa more like mental