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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 15, 2022, 4:32 am
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSwatQNaHYE
       #Post#: 11287--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 15, 2022, 8:10 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/kamila-valieva-takes-ice-american-164425832.html
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       > Valieva, who has dominated her sport during this Olympic
       season, took off awkwardly 25 seconds into her performance on
       her opening jump, her triple axel. She clumsily stepped out of
       it, but didn’t fall.
       > ...
       > But for all this drama, when Valieva’s score popped up, it was
       good enough to take the lead, then maintain it as the final four
       skaters could not reach her lyrical heights. It’s not a large
       lead, 82.16 points to 80.20 for her training partner Anna
       Shcherbakova, but she’s in first place.
       >
       > That result was, well, awful. The young woman – girl, actually
       – who should not be in the competition is leading the
       competition.
       >
       > This was all wrong. Valieva was cheered by the sparse crowd
       when she was introduced, cheered when she took the ice, cheered
       when she finished. A small but boisterous Russian delegation
       contributed mightily to that cause, but still – a young woman
       who doped was welcomed as if she was any other competitor.
       >
       > Each day that goes by, the stain on these Games, and the
       Olympic movement in general, grows darker.
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 16, 2022, 1:15 am
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       Fittingly:
  HTML https://brobible.com/sports/article/russian-speed-skater-middle-finger-americans-winter-olympics/
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       > Russian Speed Skater Gives The Double Bird After Beating
       Americans At Winter Olympics
       >
       > Not only do the Russians, excuse me, the ROC have a figure
       skater who got popped with PED’s wreaking havoc in Beijing,
       they’ve also got speed skaters throwing up the double-bird when
       crossing the finish line.
       >
       > Russian speed skater Daniil Aldoshkin helped knock off the
       Americans in the semi-finals and as he crossed the line, he
       threw up not one, but two middle fingers to celebrate the win.
       > ...
       > “I threw up my hands,” he said afterward, according to Press
       United. “I have the first medal, the first Olympics. I didn’t
       mean anything like that. I’m sorry if this offended anyone.”
       >
       > Nobody in world history has ever thrown up the double-bird
       with no intention to offend anyone, but I guess we have to take
       the Russian’s word for it.
       >
       > After all, the Russians have always been extremely honest and
       truthful when it comes to sports, especially at the Olympics.
       --- End Quote ---
       [img]
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       Again, how much more Turanian arrogance are we going to put up
       with?
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 18, 2022, 11:14 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-relay-team-stripped-stripped-161112226.html
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       > A UK relay team has been stripped of its silver medals from
       the Tokyo Olympics after a sprinter failed a drug test
       > ...
       > Sprinter CJ Ujah tested positive for a banned substance after
       the Games in August, according to a statement from the Court of
       Arbitration for Sports.
       >
       > Ujah, who was part of silver medal-winning relay team and and
       also competed 100-meter sprint at the Olympics, was ordered by
       the CAS to forfeit the medal he won at the Tokyo Games.
       >
       > His 4x100 relay teammates — Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard
       Kilty, and Zharnel Hughes — were also stripped of their silver
       medals for the event, the CAS said.
       >
       > CAS said in its statement that Ujah told officials that he
       "had not knowingly or intentionally doped, suggesting that the
       source of the prohibited substances could have been the
       ingestion of a contaminated supplement."
       --- End Quote ---
       But Valieva and her teammates can keep their gold medals.
       This is the UK team:
       [img]
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       Here is the "ROC" team:
       [img width=1280
       height=720]
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       Can you figure out why the two teams were treated differently?
       #Post#: 11379--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: rp
       Date: February 19, 2022, 6:18 pm
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       Its okay to be a "White" athlete.
       #Post#: 11386--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 19, 2022, 8:56 pm
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       It's OK for institutions to be "white":
  HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/clubbiness-ioc-makes-awful-handling-110706538.html
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       > The IOC, the International Testing Agency, the World
       Anti-Doping Agency, the Court of Arbitration for Sport – it’s an
       impressive sounding collection of organizations meant to suggest
       transparency and accountability. In reality it’s an alphabet
       soup of incestuousness, designed with the sole purpose of
       providing cover for one another.
       >
       > In Valieva’s case, it has worked to diabolic perfection.
       >
       > The Russian Anti-Doping Agency blames WADA’s lab. WADA blames
       RUSADA. And CAS. CAS blames WADA. The IOC, and Bach, blame CAS.
       All they have to do is continue pointing the finger at each
       other for another three days and they’ll have successfully
       kicked the can so far down the road that it’s no longer in sight
       and everyone will forget about it.
       >
       > “We went to court. We did not want (her) to participate and we
       lost the court case,” Bach said, giving the verbal equivalent of
       a shrug. “We have to respect the rule of law because if we are
       not respecting it, if we are abandoning the rule of law, there
       is no international sports anymore. So we had to accept this.”
       > ...
       > “It is surprising and of serious concern to WADA that a CAS
       panel would see fit to depart from the clear terms of the
       (Anti-Doping) Code, which was subject to three consultation
       phases involving all anti-doping stakeholders, including
       athletes, over a period of two years before being unanimously
       adopted in November 2019,” WADA huffed in a response Friday to
       the release of the full CAS decision, which allowed Valieva to
       compete in Beijing despite a positive drug test Dec. 25.
       >
       > “This sets a dangerous precedent, which WADA hopes and expects
       will be corrected by future CAS Panels.”
       >
       > Yeah? And just who will make that happen? The system was
       constructed to give everyone plausible deniability, and the IOC
       has stacked the various “independent organizations” with its own
       people to ensure no one gets out of line.
       > ...
       > The current president of CAS is John Coates, the longtime
       Australian IOC member who is currently serving his second term
       as vice president and who, oh by the way, just happens to chair
       the IOC’s Legal Affairs Commission.
       >
       > That’s right. If an athlete breaks an IOC rule, it’s Legal
       Affairs that hands down the punishment – which the athlete would
       then appeal to CAS.
       >
       > Nope, no conflict of interest there!
       >
       > As if that’s not slimy enough, Coates also had a big hand in
       devising the new process for selecting host cities, first used
       to choose the host for the 2032 Games. Which went to Brisbane …
       Australia.
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       #Post#: 11393--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 20, 2022, 8:29 pm
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       Our enemies on the issue:
  HTML https://vdare.com/posts/russian-figure-skaterinas-are-here-to-remind-us-of-the-hot-crazy-trade-off
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       > Look, Russian coaches, you shouldn’t drug the world’s most
       exquisite (and healthiest) 15-year-olds. Is that all that
       complicated?
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       The picture our enemies chose to illustrate their point:
  HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wTt0cau8TeA/maxresdefault.jpg
       #Post#: 11419--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: February 23, 2022, 8:09 pm
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       It's OK to be a "white" cheater (especially in Turandom):
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamila-valieva-got-heros-welcome-163619275.html
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       > Kamila Valieva got a hero's welcome on her return to Russia,
       thanked fans on Instagram, then celebrated being home by going
       to a pop concert
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       #Post#: 11716--------------------------------------------------
       Winter Paralympics 2022: Russia and Belarus athletes unable to
       compete at Games. 
   DIR By: Zhang Caizhi
       Date: March 5, 2022, 9:33 am
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  HTML https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/60599739
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       > Athletes from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to
       compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing after the
       International Paralympic Committee reversed its original
       decision.
       >
       > The IPC was heavily criticised when, following Russia's
       invasion of Ukraine, it initially said it would allow the
       athletes to compete as neutrals.
       >
       > A statement said the "situation in the athlete villages" was
       "untenable".
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       #Post#: 22497--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Dress decolonization
   DIR By: I
       Date: September 30, 2023, 8:38 pm
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  HTML https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/29/711740/Olympics-French-ban-hijab
       Olympics officials overrule French govt. ban on Muslim hijab
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       >
       >
       > Olympics officials have overruled the French government’s ban
       on Muslims wearing hijab headscarves during the 2024 Paris
       Games.
       >
       > The International Olympic Committee (IOC) declared on Friday
       that athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were
       free to wear a headscarf known as a hijab in the athletes’
       village, just days after France’s sports minister banned it for
       the host country’s athletes.
       >
       > "For the Olympic Village, the IOC rules apply," an IOC
       spokesperson said. "There are no restrictions on wearing the
       hijab or any other religious or cultural attire."
       >
       > "When it comes to competitions, the regulations set by the
       relevant International Federation (IF) apply," the IOC
       spokesperson said.
       >
       > United Nations rights office spokeswoman Marta Hurtado rebuked
       the French government for the ban on hijab.
       >
       > "No one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not
       wear," Hurtado told reporters in Geneva.
       >
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