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Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 3, 2021, 1:03 am
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 3, 2021, 9:55 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-defends-us-olympic-sprinter-195700634.html
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> AOC defends US Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, says
30-day ban is ‘racist and colonial’
> ...
> “We are also concerned that the continued prohibition of
marijuana while your organizations allow recreational use of
alcohol and other drugs reflects anti-drug laws and policies
that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities
while largely condoning drug use in white communities,” the
letter read.
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This is also the topic in which to discuss Eurocentrism in the
Olympic sports roster. I have always been especially opposed to
equestrian (and modern pentathlon) due to the horses involved,
but we can also discuss other sports which should be removed
(golf, duh!), as well as which sports should replace them.
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 5, 2021, 11:52 pm
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OK, let me remind everyone about the Eurocentrism of equestrian
events once again:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_Summer_Olympics
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> Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900
Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It disappeared until 1912, but
has appeared at every Summer Olympic Games since. The current
Olympic equestrian disciplines are Dressage, Eventing, and
Jumping.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressage
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> Modern dressage has evolved as an important equestrian pursuit
since the Renaissance when Federico Grisone's "The Rules of
Riding" was published in 1550, the first treatise on equitation
in over a thousand years since Xenophon's On Horsemanship.[2]
Much about training systems used today reflects practices of
classical dressage.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_jumping
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> Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", is a part of a
group of English riding equestrian events that also includes
dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation.
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as if you couldn't tell just from the colonial-era clothes:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lipizzaner_2.jpg/602px-Lipizzaner_2.jpg
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Baltic_Cup_Shannon_Mejnert_Sandy1.jpg/587px-Baltic_Cup_Shannon_Mejnert_Sandy1.jpg
(For the record, on purely ethical grounds I am against all
horse riding sports irrespective of origin. But the fact remains
that the above events spread around the world as a consequence
of Western colonialism, and would not have been included as an
Olympic sport otherwise.)
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: Avena_sativa
Date: July 6, 2021, 4:26 pm
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When speaking to false leftists and rightists, should we
maintain a similar ethical position on equestrian methods of
transportation (e.g. horse-drawn buggy) to our position on
equestrian sports?
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 6, 2021, 10:50 pm
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It is fair for domesticated horses who consume farm-produced
food to contribute to the labour involved in producing it (which
would probably include transporting stuff), so long as they have
the option of leaving at any time.
Where I would begin to ethically question using horses in
transportation is when it is of products that the horses
themselves do not use. (Equestrian sports can be considered a
subset of this phenomenon, as it is basically transporting
riders for the entertainment of the riders (plus spectators).)
In a better world, not only would humans not involve horses in
the luxury product economy, but they would eliminate the luxury
product economy itself ASAP in order to prevent the possibility
of other humans deciding to involve horses in it.
"horse-drawn buggy"
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 19, 2021, 9:53 pm
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And the games haven't even started yet:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/opinion-olympic-leaders-nightmare-scenario-145844058.html
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> TOKYO – As predictable as the news is, it’s still stunning. An
American female gymnast who is an alternate on the wildly
popular U.S. Olympic gymnastics team has tested positive for the
coronavirus. Four days before the opening ceremony of the
postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Games’ nightmare scenario has
become a reality.
> ...
> The coronavirus also is in the Olympic Village. Four cases
have been confirmed there: two South African men’s soccer
players, a South African men’s soccer team video analyst and a
Czech male beach volleyball player.
>
> So are these going to be known as the COVID Olympics? How can
they not be?
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 20, 2021, 3:18 am
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Update:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/total-covid-19-cases-rise-051151052.html
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> Tokyo Olympics organizers said 71 people have now tested
positive. The total includes 31 people among the tens of
thousands of international visitors expected in Japan to compete
or work at the Games, which open Friday.
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Well, that didn't take long!
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 23, 2021, 4:40 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/russian-olympic-archer-loses-consciousness-044322097.html
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> TOKYO (AP) — Russian archer Svetlana Gomboeva lost
consciousness during a competition at the Tokyo Olympics in
intense heat Friday.
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Gomboeva's face:
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/>8)[/img]
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> Teammate Ksenia Perova said that she was discussing her
results with a teammate when she discovered Gomboeva had
collapsed.
>
> “It's probably heatstroke," Perova said on the ROC’s social
media. “It's very hot here and the asphalt is really baking. Of
course there are also nerves, but the main reason is still the
weather.”
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Perova's face:
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See also:
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 23, 2021, 10:05 pm
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How the Ancient Olympics Were Conducted
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2Z0Ok2e-4
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 23, 2021, 10:26 pm
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The opening ceremony was awful. What's with the under-deployment
of Japanese culture?
HTML https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/07/tokyo-olympics-opening-ceremony-imagine
Imagine? Imagine is a UK pop song! It made sense to sing it at
London 2012, but not this time! Are you saying that you cannot
find a single worthy Japanese Counterculture-era pop song for
the slot (despite Japan having one of the best
Counterculture-era pop music scenes in the world)??
And what was all this ****?
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Does this look Japanese to you?
If this is the best they can come up with, Japan is
aesthetically finished.
Lastly, why the need for this?
HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2021/07/23/for-the-first-time-in-49-years-a-moment-of-silence-was-held-during-the-opening-ceremony-at-the-tokyo-olympic-games-for-the-11-israeli-athletes-murdered-by-palestinian-terrorists-at-the-1972-munich-o/
So many previous Olympics did not consider this relevant or
otherwise worth mentioning*; why change attitude now?
(* Of course I personally consider the Palestinians who did this
to be heroes, but I'm not even (for now) demanding the ceremony
reflect this. I'm merely saying: why bother bringing up this
incident at all?)
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