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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 1, 2021, 10:51 pm
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Did you know that Olympic wrestling events were for men only
until rather recently?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_Summer_Olympics
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> The women's competition was introduced in 2004.
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And to this day women only get events in freestyle wrestling,
whereas Graeco-Roman wrestling remains a men's only event.
For comparison, women's events in judo were introduced
significantly sooner despite judo as a whole being a much more
recent addition to the Olympic roster:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo_at_the_Summer_Olympics
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> Women's judo made its first appearance at the 1988 Olympic
Games, as a demonstration sport. Women's Judo became an official
part of the Olympic games from the 1992 Barcelona games and has
been an integral part of the games since.
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Why the difference? (Hint: which sport is Western?)
#Post#: 7862--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 2, 2021, 9:59 pm
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And did you know that there were also no weightlifting events
for women until rather recently?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting
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> it was not until the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia
that an official Olympic competition for women was
introduced.[7]
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Anyway, remember how rightists were saying over these last few
months that trans women should be prohibited from competing in
women's events? Their claim was that, as soon as trans women are
allowed to compete in women's events, cis women will never win
another gold medal ever again. In reality:
HTML https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/weightlifting/result-women-s--plus-87kg-fnl-a00100-.htm
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> 1
> CHN
> LI Wenwen
> 130Successful attempts
> 135Successful attempts
> 140Successful attempts
> 140 OR
> 162Successful attempts
> 173Successful attempts
> 180Successful attempts
> 180 OR
> 320 OR
> ...
> NZL
> HUBBARD Laurel
> 120Failed attempts
> 125Failed attempts
> 125Failed attempts
> -Attempt not performed
> -Attempt not performed
> -Attempt not performed
> -
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LOL
#Post#: 7871--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 3, 2021, 9:57 pm
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Boxing too:
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> The 2008 Summer Olympics were the final games with boxing as a
male only event. Since the 2012 Summer Olympics, women's boxing
is part of the program.
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whereas taekwondo has had events for both men and women since
its Olympic inception:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo_at_the_Summer_Olympics
Why is it consistently the Western sport that is late to include
women's events compared to its closest non-Western equivalent?
And what's with the utterly arbitrary sexual dimorphism in the
heptathlon?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptathlon
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> Women's heptathlon
> ...
> 100 metres hurdles
> High jump
> Shot put
> 200 metres
> Long jump
> Javelin throw
> 800 metres
> ...
> Men's heptathlon
> ...
> 60 metres
> long jump
> shot put
> high jump
> 60 metres hurdles
> pole vault
> 1000 metres
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#Post#: 7895--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 4, 2021, 11:43 pm
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HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/04/sport/australia-olympic-team-unacceptable-flight-scli-intl-spt/index.html
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> Australian Olympians returning from the Tokyo 2020 games have
been criticized over "excessive alcohol consumption" and "loud
and disruptive" behavior on their flight home.
>
> Ian Chesterman, Australia's chef de mission, told reporters
Wednesday that he had received a report from Japan Airlines
about the "unacceptable" behavior of team members.'
>
> Athletes "failed to respond to requests for them do do
whatever they needed to do on the flight," Chesterman said.
--- End Quote ---
Japan Airlines is only now learning how Western colonialists
behave? They must have missed:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonial-crimes-dw-documentary/msg7347/#msg7347
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/has-australia-reconciled-with-its-colonial-past/msg3844/#msg3844
etc.
#Post#: 7911--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 6, 2021, 1:37 am
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Even WALKING events were considered unsuitable for women until
rather recently:
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> The first women's event was introduced at the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics, 84 years after the first men's race. Held over 10 km
for the first two editions, the women's event was extended to
match the men's 20 km distance from the 2000 Sydney Olympics
onwards.
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and to an extent still is:
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> Women have never commonly competed internationally over 50 km,
thus it has never been proposed as an Olympic event – as of 2012
it remains the only event on the Olympic athletics programme in
which men compete, but women do not have an equivalent.
--- End Quote ---
WTF?
#Post#: 7937--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 7, 2021, 2:53 am
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Horses boycott pentathlon ;D
HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/tokyo-olympics-2021-beyond-cruel-pentathlon-marred-by-horse-controversy-062300143.html
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> Athletes are not permitted to use a horse of the own for the
show jumping section - instead, they are given a horse selected
at random and have 20 minutes to bond with the animal before
being sent out on course.
>
> However on Friday night, several of the horses given to riders
just weren't up for the task, with multiple riders falling out
of contention due to unwilling steeds.
>
> None fell further than Germany's Annika Schleu, who held the
lead heading into the horse riding event but fell completely out
of contention when her mount absolutely refused to cooperate.
>
> Schleu, who finished fourth in the event at the 2016 Rio
Olympics, was in tears riding around the course as her horse
flatly refused to tackle any of the obstacles on course.
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[img]
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She is the not the victim. She is the oppressor. The horse is
the actual victim who for once decided to not be a slave. Too
bad the horse didn't throw her off and step on her face as well.
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> "Natalya Coyle draws a horse who just doesn’t fancy it today.
And that is the horrendous luck of this draw. Crazy event. She
went into showjumping in 4th & leaves it in 19th. Beyond cruel,"
Irish reporter Jacqui Hurley wrote.
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What is beyond cruel is forcing horses to participate in the
first place. Still, this is a good example of how Westerners can
sincerely believe they are the ones on the receiving end of
cruelty even as they are the ones dishing it out in reality.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/antropocentricism-the-most-dangerous-ideology-in-the-world/
#Post#: 7945--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 7, 2021, 9:54 pm
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Update to the previous post:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/german-pentathlon-coach-disqualified-after-punching-horse-in-competition-tokyo-olympics-083624403.html
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> German pentathlon coach disqualified after punching horse in
competition
> ...
> Coach Kim Raisner, according to Reuters, hit a horse with her
fist during Friday’s show jumping in Tokyo and urged a German
rider to “really hit” the horse when it didn’t want to jump.
> ...
> Schleu repeatedly grew frustrated as Saint Boy started
refusing to jump and she cried out as time on the run expired,
as her lead had completely vanished.
>
> Raisner, however, urged Schleu to “really hit it, hit” the
horse and even punched the horse once on the back of the leg.
Schleu was seen hitting the horse multiple times, too.
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And this is the true face of equestrianism. If this is what they
do in actual competition, imagine what goes on during training.
#Post#: 8006--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 10, 2021, 9:54 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIXIb_d86U
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/turanian-sexism/
#Post#: 9259--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: October 6, 2021, 2:15 pm
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How is Israel even allowed to compete in the Olympics?
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> The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its
invitation to South Africa to the 1964 Summer Olympics when
interior minister Jan de Klerk insisted the team would not be
racially integrated.[7] In 1968, the IOC was prepared to readmit
South Africa after assurances that its team would be
multi-racial; but a threatened boycott by African nations and
others forestalled this.[8] ... South Africa was formally
expelled from the IOC in 1970.[9]
>
> In 1976, African nations demanded that New Zealand be
suspended by the IOC for continued contacts with South Africa,
including a tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team.
When the IOC refused, the African teams withdrew from the
games.[10] This contributed to the Gleneagles Agreement being
adopted by the Commonwealth in 1977.[11]
>
> The IOC adopted a declaration against "apartheid in sport" on
21 June 1988, for the total isolation of apartheid sport.[4]
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_boycott_of_South_Africa_during_the_apartheid_era#Olympic_Games
#Post#: 11087--------------------------------------------------
Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 6, 2022, 2:45 am
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Are we sick of Turanian arrogrance yet?
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-athletes-skirted-olympic-sanctions-140138669.html
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> Russian athletes skirted Olympic sanctions by wearing their
country's flag on their sleeves during the Beijing opening
ceremony
> ...
> Russia's four-year Olympic ban due to widespread doping
violations and a state-sanctioned cover-up explicitly prohibited
athletes that call the country home from competing under their
flag or hearing their national anthem played at the games.
> ...
> Russia's sleeve flags appear to be a direct violation of the
sanctions the IOC set in place ahead of the games.
>
> Whether the country or its athletes face repercussions remains
to be seen.
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[img]
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When will the rest of the world finally realize Hitler was
correct all along about what needed to be done with Russia?
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