Paris Olympics 2024 Thread

[ELA]

I've heard we can only get jobbers for this team because of the qualifying. There is no way that should be our team.

Why does the qualifying team have to be your Olympic team?  Its not that way for other sports.  None of the NBA players show up until the Olympics.  If you can qualify with your B team, good on you

[MaximumSam]

I’ve been sheepishly wondering if there is more to this story. But I don’t really know what you just said.

Does he/she/it have man parts or female?  Or both?  Do they have high testosterone and muscle mass like a man? 

It doesn’t matter how they identify or how they were raised. If they have xy genes they are a man. They did not win based on training and athletic ability and hard work. They won because they were mismatched. If this is becoming a major problem they need to create another category and let them compete against

Almost certainly phenotypically female. Which is why, fine, you don't think she should be in competition with women. But the amount of vitriol towards her is nonsense. Literally makes no sense. She didn't do anything wrong or ask for any of this. She just trained and became really good, and it wasn't until she was really good that suddenly she was a problem. She competed in 2020 without apparent incident.

[MaximumSam]

Why does the qualifying team have to be your Olympic team?  Its not that way for other sports.  None of the NBA players show up until the Olympics.  If you can qualify with your B team, good on you

I guess the rules say the roster can only be made up of guys ranked in 3 by 3 basketball, but no one good actually plays that in America, so that's why we have a team of jobbers.

[Honestbuckeye]

Almost certainly phenotypically female. Which is why, fine, you don't think she should be in competition with women. But the amount of vitriol towards her is nonsense. Literally makes no sense. She didn't do anything wrong or ask for any of this. She just trained and became really good, and it wasn't until she was really good that suddenly she was a problem. She competed in 2020 without apparent incident.

Interesting take. 

100% of the vitriol that I can find is aimed at IOC for allowing him/her to compete.

The professional medical community seems confident that the XY chromosome- males only- is likely medically induced. 

he/ she was barred in 2023 for failing their male/ female test.

[Cincydawg]

Dude is clearly a dude. 

[ELA]

This is why I left last year.  College football sucks, and people cant talk sports without making it about politics. 

OSU and Georgia fans concerned about competative equity.  Duly noted

[ELA]

French got behind Biles.  The US men are sort of on par with other strong squads.  US women are playing every game in hostile territory

[MaximumSam]

Peacock has been great overall, I've watched more live events this year than probably all other Olympics combined. Six bucks well invested.

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1818740223511048552?t=y8eInbRIbbgKtDnR97MXOw&s=19

[bayareabadger]

Not surprising at all.  CDawg has always had common sense. 

research?  I have absorbed everything available. 

so you have a man beating up a woman.  Period. 

I try to respect other opinions, because reasonable people can disagree on so many things.  Abortion.  Gun control.  Taxes.  Law enforcement.  Long , endless list.

But then there are those things where you just wonder how people with a brain, or an ounce of common sense, can think a certain way. 
This is one of those.  A man beating up a woman in a pinnacle sporting event for women.

an absolute disgrace with no justification that can be considered remotely credible. 


It’s ok for a man to beat the shit out of a woman in a boxing competition for women.  Or it’s not. It is not nuanced.

Max’s response is the one you should be talking about.  So disrespectful and a personal insult. Like so many on the left, that is their reflex.  Attack with anyone with a different opinion, even though their own opinion is EXTREME AND OFFENSIVE.

I didn't think we'd get to the point where folks of a certain political persuasion would be arguing vociferously that a biological male could be born with female reproductive parts. It turns out "gender is what's in your pants" was a load of hooey, at least when convenient. 

If people want to say this person is some kind of intersex and that should disqualify them, go with God, that seems fine. But to get all hot and bothered because they're a "man," smacks of bulljive. If this person didn't take some test, but moved to the US and said they wanted to live as a man, I'd be hearing they can't just change their gender because they feel like it. 

I swear, the nonsense of our time. 

[bayareabadger]

https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1818740223511048552?t=y8eInbRIbbgKtDnR97MXOw&s=19

This man looks like he wears dad New Balances. 

[FearlessF]

not hey Dudes

[bayareabadger]

Why does the qualifying team have to be your Olympic team?  Its not that way for other sports.  None of the NBA players show up until the Olympics.  If you can qualify with your B team, good on you

Hmmm. 

My only guess would be that regular basketball (and maybe some other sports?) is given an exception that the program as a whole has to compete. Whereas the default for Olympic sports is that athletes themselves have to be part of qualifying?

Like back in the day, the US hockey team played 61 games before the Olympics. Granted, that was before pros and such. 

[utee94]

What specifically are "Dad New Balances?"

'Cause I run about 20-25 miles per week and after trying all the top brands my preferred shoe is New Balance, and I'm a Dad--- does that make my shoes "Dad New Balances?"