Summer of sport

[perrykneeham]

Oh dear. What time is the fencing?

[mids]

I see men's vs women's boxing isn't very successful.

"The controversial fight between Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who failed a sex test at last year’s World Championships, and Italy’s Angela Carini has been abandoned after just 46 seconds after the Italian suffered a suspected broken nose.

This fight had already detonated ferocious controversy, with the International Olympic Committee under mounting pressure to explain how a woman could be allowed into a boxing ring unsure of the sex of the person she was facing.

Khelif was banned from competing in a gold-medal bout in Delhi by the International Boxing Association, who said that the fighter had failed biochemical tests in two consecutive years.

And yet she was still permitted by the IOC to fight at these Olympics and the difference in power was clear from the beginning, with the Italian taking a punch to the face and immediately walking to her corner to signal she would not carry on."

www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/08/01/olympic-womens-boxing-live-imane-khelif-paris-2024/

[flatandy]

It might be unfair, and it might be that Italians are just sh*t at fighting.

[perrykneeham]

Aug 1, 2024 11:06:54 GMT mids said:

I see men's vs women's boxing isn't very successful.

"The controversial fight between Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who failed a sex test at last year’s World Championships, and Italy’s Angela Carini has been abandoned after just 46 seconds after the Italian suffered a suspected broken nose.

This fight had already detonated ferocious controversy, with the International Olympic Committee under mounting pressure to explain how a woman could be allowed into a boxing ring unsure of the sex of the person she was facing.

Khelif was banned from competing in a gold-medal bout in Delhi by the International Boxing Association, who said that the fighter had failed biochemical tests in two consecutive years.

And yet she was still permitted by the IOC to fight at these Olympics and the difference in power was clear from the beginning, with the Italian taking a punch to the face and immediately walking to her corner to signal she would not carry on."

www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/08/01/olympic-womens-boxing-live-imane-khelif-paris-2024/

Nah, that's just assault, plain and simple.

[Repat Van]

I do feel sorry for female competitors who happen to have higher than “acceptable” levels of testosterone.

[mids]

I feel sorry for the female competitors who train hard for years and are dedicated to their sport only to be defeated by a man because of woke cunts.

[mids]

It's also odd, queer even, that the left thoroughly approve of male violence against women.

[unclejunior]

After the Algerian boxing debacle where a bloke “stopped “an Italian woman after 46 seconds ….. I wonder what would be general reaction if the other female boxers in the weight just withdrew and allowed him to take the medal etc …?🤔

[Repat Van]

Aug 1, 2024 15:28:49 GMT unclejunior said:

After the Algerian boxing debacle where a bloke “stopped “an Italian woman after 46 seconds ….. I wonder what would be general reaction if the other female boxers in the weight just withdrew and allowed him to take the medal etc …?🤔

Bloke?

[Repat Van]

Aug 1, 2024 12:00:54 GMT mids said:

I feel sorry for the female competitors who train hard for years and are dedicated to their sport only to be defeated by a man because of woke cunts.

What does that have to do with this story?

[flatandy]

TBF, she did actually fail the IBA’s biochemical tests twice, which seems to suggest she was probably doping to the eyeballs with hormones. So it is weird she was allowed to compete. It is hypothetically possible that in fact she’s a bloke but that seems very unlikely, or maybe a Caster Semanya situation which is just unfortunate for everyone but the rules now seem to preclude those athletes competing. I think my first assumption is doping, but whatever, probably she should be banned.

[perrykneeham]

... and given a swift kick in the bollocks.

[Repat Van]

Aug 1, 2024 15:43:05 GMT flatandy said:

TBF, she did actually fail the IBA’s biochemical tests twice, which seems to suggest she was probably doping to the eyeballs with hormones. So it is weird she was allowed to compete. It is hypothetically possible that in fact she’s a bloke but that seems very unlikely, or maybe a Caster Semanya situation which is just unfortunate for everyone but the rules now seem to preclude those athletes competing. I think my first assumption is doping, but whatever, probably she should be banned.

I am not commenting on whether she should have been allowed to compete but I have not seen anything suggesting she is a man. At best it maybe more correct to class her as intersex. Potentially a situation akin to Semenya (who also is not a man.)

[mids]

I think his name's a giveaway. I mane Khelif.

[perrykneeham]

"Italy's Angela Carini abandoned her Olympic bout against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif inside 46 seconds, saying: "I had to preserve my life."

Khelif is one of two athletes who have been cleared to compete in the women's boxing in Paris, having been disqualified from last year's Women's World Championships for failing to meet eligibility criteria."

It's terrible when women who are assaulted by men aren't believed.

[voice]

We need a simplified explanation for the mouth breathers to explain to them Imane Khelif was a female at BIRTH not just last year. Even then I expect they'll struggle.

[perrykneeham]

Assigned, surely?

[voice]

Unless you can show she was born male and was changed to be female, or is doped to f**k with testosterone or otherwise cheating, then she is just using her natural advantage, no one ever suggested we shorten Phelps freakishly long arms that allowed him to be faster, or shorten Bolts very legs that gave him an advantage. A lot of top athletes are freaks of nature to some extent, it's why they stand out, not sure why this woman should be seen as not a woman just cos of how she was born.

[flatandy]

There’s a woman on Twitter called Amy Broadhurst who’s said that she thinks Khelif isn’t cheating and was probably born with a hormonal imbalance and noted that she’d been beaten by 9 different women boxers so it’s not exactly an obvious case of unfair conditions.

A bunch of screaming tools on Twitter responded “you try and fight her then!”

Without realizing that Broadhurst beat her in the last Olympics.

[Repat Van]

Aug 1, 2024 21:24:47 GMT flatandy said:

There’s a woman on Twitter called Amy Broadhurst who’s said that she thinks Khelif isn’t cheating and was probably born with a hormonal imbalance and noted that she’d been beaten by 9 different women boxers so it’s not exactly an obvious case of unfair conditions.

A bunch of screaming tools on Twitter responded “you try and fight her then!”

Without realizing that Broadhurst beat her in the last Olympics.

Excellent!!