The 2024 Olympics Thread 🏹

[fitafter40]

Bottom line

Male gentalia at birth…compete against males

Female genitalia at birth…compete against females

hermaphrodite at birth…depends on testosterone levels

[Dani_Shugart]

Oh, when I said “it’s complicated” I was commenting under this statement:

@Dani_Shugart

@zecarlo

The governing bodies in the various nations need to step up on the behalf of the athletes. I couldn’t, if I were a coach, send my athlete out there to face what is already a dangerous enough situation.

Good points. It’s complicated for sure.

If you read his full comment, it’s really good.

I wasn’t saying that it’s complicated as far as XY competing against XX. You and I are in agreement there. Separating it by chromosomes seems like the only solution.

[zecarlo]

@NotYou

She apparently has female genitalia

It’s not apparent.

@NotYou

was always raised as a girl

Irrelevant.

@NotYou

XY chromosomes

Relevant.

[zecarlo]

@NotYou

One one hand if you were born with female genitalia and the birth certificate says female, then the high testosterone and Y chromosome could be considered the same type of natural physical advantage as height, or as natural strength. Prior to genetic testing this boxer would have been 100% female, full stop, because of her female genitalia. And to suggest otherwise would have been ridiculous.

It’s all BS. These boxers were already disqualified at the world championships. This Olympics decided to go with a different governing body that was magically created for this Olympics. That’s very suspect. You have an established governing body that disqualified them, so you create a new one specifically for this Olympics, and this Olympics alone, in order to let them compete.

[redsol1]

@Chris_Shugart

Athletes from North Korea and South Korea take a selfie after the Table Tennis Mixed Doubles. (Try to catch their plane home, North Koreans!)

The DPRK kid in the far left is DEFINATLY reporting everyone else to the party commissars.

La’

[redsol1]

@Chris_Shugart

but which Olympic sport produces the best male and female physiques from a completely aesthetic (“that’s hot!”) perspective?

For the Ladies sports I’m always going to go Gymnastics and Beach Volleyball, but Long Jump made a serious entry in this year’s games.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Cl0eHx7-V/

La’

[Chris_Shugart]

The common denominator here seems to be the sprinting component. But then again, the female swimmers can look pretty jacked. I have no idea what an Olympic swimmer’s weight training looks like, but they don’t skip glute/leg day.

[NotYou]

@zecarlo

It’s all BS. These boxers were already disqualified at the world championships. This Olympics decided to go with a different governing body that was magically created for this Olympics. That’s very suspect. You have an established governing body that disqualified them, so you create a new one specifically for this Olympics, and this Olympics alone, in order to let them compete.

What new governing body was created? As far back as I can remember the IOC has been governing the Olympics, and the sports individual governing bodies handle world cup/championships etc.

What new governing body was created for this year’s Olympic boxing?

[zecarlo]

The Olympic Games Paris 2024 Boxing Tournament is organized under the authority of the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit (PBU). The PBU is an ad-hoc unit created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board with the mandate to organise and ensure the delivery of the Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournaments and the Boxing Competition at Paris 2024.

The PBU was created following the suspension of the Olympic recognition of the International Boxing Association (IBA) by the IOC Session in June 2019 – the IBA’s recognition was subsequently withdrawn by the IOC Session in June 2023 – and the announcement in June 2022 that the IBA would not run the Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournaments and the Boxing Competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

https://boxing.athlete365.org/faq/

[NotYou]

Right, the boxing went back under the IOC, where it had been for years. Same rules as Rio.

Why did they go away from the IBA? Because a Russian oligarch bought it, moved it to Russia and the sport largely abandoned the IBA.

Boxing is the most notoriously corrupt sport, soaybe Algeria and Taiwan(?) did pony up some cash to the organizers. Who knows?

[zecarlo]

@NotYou

Boxing is the most notoriously corrupt sport

The Olympics are corrupt. It starts with how cities are chosen to host them. Why take over governance but change a rule that didn’t allow men to fight women? FIFA is corrupt, but the Olympics won’t touch it.

[NotYou]

I don’t think a rule was changed. They just reverted to the rules the last time IOC was in charge (Rio 2016).

Did you see what just happened to Salt Lake City 2034? IOC threatened to not award them the Olympics if the US officials didn’t stop their independent investigation of the Chinese swimmer doping scandal. SKETCHY.

[Silyak]

I would say XX with normal female test levels is women’s sports. Everything else is men’s sports. It’s the simplest binary. People are not owed a chance to compete in a sport at a certain level. Most people don’t get that chance.

I find it rather hypocritical for the Algerian man to beat up the Italian lady and then say that he will, “Fight anybody.” He’s in the division where he only has to fight women. Fight men if you will really, “Fight anybody.”

[zecarlo]

@NotYou

I don’t think a rule was changed. They just reverted to the rules the last time

Reverted is change.

[redsol1]

Equestrians ain’t half bad either…

[simo74]

Those horses are totally jacked.

[punnyguy]

Am I the only who thinks her usage of the word “alas” is incredibly hot?

[punnyguy]

Simone Biles winning Gold again at age 27! is crazy; she’s practically an old lady for that sport lol.

(especially after the issues she had at the previous Olympics)

[donnerschweer]

I had, once, a horse.

It looked like a mare from the outside, act like a stud, had no uterus upon inspection and testes in the abdominal cavity, too large and too low to be ovaries.

Strange stuff happen but it is not the norm.
We did the gene test for fun and it came out XXY. If it looked male on the outside it would have been XYX. As far as I remember.

[redsol1]

Cryptorchidism is the technical term. The testes dont drop, but continue to form inside the body cavity. Due to the increased temp they tend to be over active, so they act hyper studish.

La’