Gojira were ace. The horse thing on the river was pretty interesting but it was generally rather dull and odd.
Anyway, that is about as much of the Olympics I am going to watch and I will see you all in four years.
Chicago: au revoir.
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It was clearly more geared towards television coverage than a live audience. Another step towards the matrixification of the dumb consumer. That aside, it was shit for that as well*.
As I said to someone. If the global TV audience is so keen on watching parades, they should televise pride marches**, instead of that old toss. It would do the world a lot more good. Which is why it wont be happening any time before the people seize the means of production.
The oy link trick events themselves are largely a bit shit. I would be more in favour of a sort of mass decathalon event for two weeks.
* I imagine. I don't have to have watched it, to know that it was shit.
** For some reason this reminded me of being taken by a friend to sunsplash in the mid eighties. Having raw sugar beet, and fresh green coconut*** for the first time.
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That’s what I thought as well. However, I am reliably informed by people who were there that it was ace. And some of the on-the-ground reports say the same thing.
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To be fair, the whole thing was pretty gay if that is any help...
Chicago: Community spirited.
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Who’d call an horse “London 52”?
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Never mind that. Earlier one of the female presenters suggested that an older experienced competitor should "beat off" their young challengers.
I'm not sure that sort of thing is going to turn skateboarding into a universally recognised sport.
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This seems bad: www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/01/angela-carini-abandons-fight-after-46-seconds-against-imane-khelif
Not least because it gives some of the worst people on the internet the opportunity to say "I told you so".
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They may be the worst people on the internet but on this occasion I agree with them. It is ridiculous that a genetic male can be permitted to get into a combat arena with a genetic woman.
Gender identity is rightly protected in society, but the physical advantage that genetic gender differences convey can not and should not be ignored in the field of sport.
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"Genetic male" according to one questionable set of tests and not another. This isn't a transgender athlete.
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I believe the IOC’s tests amount to ‘what does it say on your passport?’ She is a biological male with under developed sexual organs and assigned female at birth (which, by the reckoning of some of the worst people on the internet, means she qualifies, although that opinion seems to have slipped somewhat.)
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I would argue that the "worst people on the internet" are absolutely represented on both sides of the gender debate, but the elite sport differentiation is one area I would happily avoid.
I'd leave it to sport governing bodies, with far better information and stake in the game.
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Iba would seem to be experts in who should be allowed to box women and they say no to her.
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So would the Olympics. And, yeah, it is definitely not that straightforward.
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Paging JP.
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Exactly this. And, FWIW, I’ve never encountered an actual trans person who doesn’t feel the same way. There are some arseholes who claim to be defending trans rights when they take a dumb stance on this, but not many. The idea that there is some widely held idea that anyone should be able to claim womanhood and compete in elite sports is an invention of the ‘right’.
Still, great that so many more people are interested in Algerian women’s boxing that we’d thought. Huge boost to the sport.
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If you have any sort of classification category event, you'd better make damn sure that you nail the detail of the category, or you will have problems. "is a woman/is not a woman" is no more going to hack it than "is a bit spacky/isn't a bit spacky" would.
