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screw the Olympics
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You should also sign off on the NCAA Collegiate Sports as they are a huge promoter of re-defining gender in sports.
While I am a coach, I'm not a fan of professional or most sports conferences. I'm openly supportive of some transgender athletes who were my students, but support their rights to compete in their birth gender. I'm openly opposed to biological males competing in women's sports, and visa versa. I have no issue with transgenders but I do see the realistic differences between the sexes and the natural abilities of each. Transgenders have a tough life, I honestly feel for them, but we shouldn't upend sports for a fraction of a percentage of competitors.
Make sure you are done with the sponsors too.
We recognize the fact that by and large men are larger, stronger, and faster than women, they therefore both compete against their own gender. Why do we not recognize that same fact with pseudogender? Chicks with dicks are still larger, stronger, and faster. Let them compete against themselves.
Olympic Fencing LIVESTREAM links and schedule:
www.nbcolympics.com
I would point out that, unlike some of the other events, there are no dudes wearing women's clothing competing in the fencing events against biological women.
Olympic Fencing Live Streams & Schedule
Watch Fencing live from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com
www.nbcolympics.com
I would point out that, unlike some of the other events, there are no dudes wearing women's clothing competing in the fencing events against biological women.
I've been catching bits of it.
England's men teams are doing well.
One of the local Toledo gals medaled.
Simone Biles dropped out because of a medical issue. ?
England's men teams are doing well.
One of the local Toledo gals medaled.
Simone Biles dropped out because of a medical issue. ?
For sure. She said she just felt like it was too much emotionally.
So far I have not watched one second of the Olympics. Partly due to a 4 day boating weekend. Partly due to seeing a pic of our women's soccer team disrespecting our country. At this point I have never been less interested in the Olympics. Kinda reminds be of a bushel of apples. A few bad ones can ruin things for all of them. I do feel for the patriots that are giving their all for the good ole USA. And eventually I'll watch some but, as I said, I'm just not excited or looking forward to watching as I was in prior years.
Ain't no way to say it better than you two.
I gave up on pro sports when I realized it was all about money, big money, for playing games.
Olympics, college sports or pro sports.
I grew up babysitting Kenny Boyer's kids (STL Cardinals) and mowing his lawn. He made a bit more than my dad ( a senior engineer at McDonnel aircraft) and lived in a three bedroom suburban ranch style house with a carport. None of the athletes of today would stoop so low as to live that commonly with their fans.
News flash, heroes and sports heroes are not the same. Both useful but hardly interchangeable.
I gave up on pro sports when I realized it was all about money, big money, for playing games.
Olympics, college sports or pro sports.
I grew up babysitting Kenny Boyer's kids (STL Cardinals) and mowing his lawn. He made a bit more than my dad ( a senior engineer at McDonnel aircraft) and lived in a three bedroom suburban ranch style house with a carport. None of the athletes of today would stoop so low as to live that commonly with their fans.
News flash, heroes and sports heroes are not the same. Both useful but hardly interchangeable.
What about those young USA team participants who aren't kneeling in protest, but rather very proud to be representing our country?
I'd hate to be an Olympian knowing I'm not getting backing from a large portion of the population in my country while so far away from home, because a few soreheads want to be politically correct.
I'd hate to be an Olympian knowing I'm not getting backing from a large portion of the population in my country while so far away from home, because a few soreheads want to be politically correct.
What about them? Who's fault is it that the Olympics and other sports are politicized? The same people who are trainers and facilitators of them as well as the politically active. It is not the fault of those youngsters of which you speak, but they can do more about it than adoring fans.
They are the product. And have choices. So do the fans who consume that product. Neither should put up with anyone corrupting of the product.
I'm not talking about morals here. I'm talking about standards and boundaries. What we let come in and what we let go out is OUR choice. Same with aspiring athletes, professional, politicians, friends and lovers.
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I agree. I know that Lee Kiefer, the first American to win GOLD in the FOIL Fencing competition proudly held up the US Flag.
But that said this article is interesting (but long) full story at link...
Have you seen the Olympics? Probably not. FYI, it’s not about sports anymore.
Late in the evening of October 17, 1534, a small group of protestant activists swept across the five biggest cities in France, posting anti-Catholic propaganda posters all over town in major public squares.
The activists even managed to brazenly nail one of their posters to the bedroom door of King Francis I, himself a Catholic.
(There were even rumors that the activists slipped their literature into one of the King’s pockets as he slept.)
Francis was furious. He had always been tolerant of protestants in his country and allowed people to worship freely… at a time when religious tolerance was quite rare in Europe.
But he felt the activists had gone too far. So he had them all tracked down and burned at the stake.
This was merely an opening salvo in what would eventually become a full blown civil war in France, known as the “Wars of Religion” between Catholics and Protestants.
In retrospect this may be one of the most pointless and idiotic civil wars in the history of western civilization.
Both sides were French– a kingdom that had existed for centuries and enjoyed a strong national identity since at least the mid 1400s.
Both sides spoke the same language, shared similar values. Even religiously, they both worshiped the same God. They both had faith in Jesus Christ. They both believed in heaven and hell.
Their differences were minor. They had different customs and rituals. And they disagreed on small details– like predestination, the infallibility of the pope, or the supreme authority of the bible over the authority of the church.
Yet despite standing on the same ground on virtually 95% of everything, their 5% disagreement led to one of the deadliest wars in European history.
More than 3 million died as a result of this pointless conflict. And it took decades for the violence to stop and the French economy to finally recover.
I’ve thought about this history quite frequently over the past several months as a historical metaphor for our own time.
That’s not because of the level of violence; our own modern social conflict is “mostly peaceful”, after all.
But what I find most irritating about the extreme level of tension today is that, like the Catholics and Protestants from French history, people tend to agree on most things.
For example, the vast majority of people in a civilized society today probably agree that racism is stupid and shouldn’t exist. It seems like THAT should be the most important point, and obvious common ground.
Yet one side tells the other side, ‘If you’re not 100% on board with everything in our doctrine, then you’re a White Supremacist.’ And then crazy conflict ensues.
School boards try to reinvent the entire education system and indoctrinate children with hardcore, woke literature. Angry digital mobs swarm all over non-believers trying to ruin lives and destroy businesses.
And angrier mobs have rampaged through the streets, taken over government buildings, and even declared their own autonomous zones.
This is utterly ridiculous behavior when you consider how closely aligned most people are on the most important points of the issue.
Yet that small 5% difference has caused one side to completely spiral out of control and engage in de facto acts of terrorism– stoking fear through violence, threats, and intimidation, in an effort to unilaterally dictate national policy.
Compromise is out of the question. Discussion is off the table. The fact that most people agree on probably 95% of the issue is totally irrelevant.
Their only tactic is conflict. And every woke fanatic has enlisted as a foot soldier to wage a nonstop campaign of propaganda, fear, and public spectacle. And that includes celebrities, ‘journalists’, and athletes.
Just take a look at the Olympics. No seriously, take a look. Because if you’re like most people, you probably haven’t been watching.
TV ratings for the Olympics are at their lowest level in decades… because everyone knows it’s not about sports anymore.
If you can manage to stomach the extreme lunacy of Japan’s Covid protocol theater, you then have to put up with a never-ending display of political protests.
And if you haven’t vomited all over yourself by then, you’ll then have to suffer the indignity of the NBC broadcast team’s groveling and virtue signaling.
For example, we’ve seen one country’s female (can you still use that word?) gymnastics team change their competition uniform to skin-tight onesies with flesh-colored plunging necklines. To them, this new sultry uniform is a protest against the sexualization of female gymnasts.
The media, of course, is eating it up, and praising these gymnasts for their bravery and courage.
Seriously? Has the bar for courage been set so low that you get a gold star for putting on a sequined unitard?
Then there were judo competitors from two different countries (Sudan and Algeria) who refused to face an Israeli opponent, citing the Israeli government’s activities in Palestine.
(Ironically, this is also the same reason why Ben & Jerry’s wants to stop selling ice cream in Israel. No soup for you!)
But these examples don’t even scratch the surface of the athlete protests. Of course there’s going to be a lot of kneeling during national anthems. That’s so commonplace it’s almost passé now.
NFL teams routinely take a knee for the national anthem, if they bother taking the field at all. And even if you try to ignore it, the game announcers keep at-home viewers informed in real time, telling us which players are standing, and which are kneeling.
The NBA is even worse, where athletes flat-out refuse to play as a form of protest. In completely unrelated news, NBA ratings are also at their lowest levels in decades.
In fact the most recent NBA finals averaged fewer than 10 million viewers… which is about 30% fewer people as watched a typical episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation back in the 1990s. It’s also a fraction of what the NBA finals viewership used to be even a few years ago.
Major League Baseball refuses to be left out of this terminal decline in viewership.
You’ll may recall that the MLB’s recent all-star game was supposed to have been played in Atlanta earlier this month.
But the league decided to move the all-star game to Denver in order to protest a voting law passed by the state of Georgia, which had been called ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ by a bunch of people who didn’t bother to actually read the text of the legislation.
Had anyone bothered to read the law, they would have seen that it drastically expands voting and makes it much easier for people to cast their ballots.
But that doesn’t matter. Any voting law changes in 2021 are ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘UnAmerican’. So baseball jumped on board the ignorance train and staged its woke protest.
Unsurprisingly, viewership of the all-star game plummeted to a record low. And this is good news.
These dismal ratings are proof that ultra-woke loudmouths only constitute a tiny minority of the population...
......ratings for the Olympics are at their lowest level in decades… because everyone knows it’s not about sports anymore.
These dismal ratings are proof that ultra-woke loudmouths only constitute a tiny minority of the population........
These two lines say it all.
The Olympics used to pull nations and citizens together. A picture of beautiful human commonality and a glimpse of peace. Now these same activities amplify our warts and differences.
The athletes suffer, the ratings suffer and the audience turns away.
It really doesn't matter how small the percentage of participants are involved. One teaspoon of piss and bile mixed in the batter and no one wants to have cake.
These dismal ratings are proof that ultra-woke loudmouths only constitute a tiny minority of the population........
These two lines say it all.
The Olympics used to pull nations and citizens together. A picture of beautiful human commonality and a glimpse of peace. Now these same activities amplify our warts and differences.
The athletes suffer, the ratings suffer and the audience turns away.
It really doesn't matter how small the percentage of participants are involved. One teaspoon of piss and bile mixed in the batter and no one wants to have cake.
You're judged by the company you keep. It's unfortuinate, but life happens.
The Olympic committee could eaasily solve the loss of a third of their viewers by telling them them to stand up and shut up. Or they'll be tossed.
There's also an upside. "The 2021 Women’s College World Series set attendance records in every session played."
That's true of most sports you've never heard of. Those doing the right thing get rewarded.
Life is good.
I am, and I do.
I heard on the news that she was getting confused in the air. If that's the case, I don't blame her at all. She could get seriously injured when confused and trying to land correctly. I heard that it's called the twisties (???, don't know if I spelled that right), but supposedly it's gymnastic speak. They compared it to getting the yips in baseball or golf. Of course in both golf and baseball, you're not way up in air trying to make a safe landing.
Biles tanked. Simple as that.
olivia24
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I feel sorry for her. Sometimes the pressure is just too much.
olivia24
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I dont understand how they can allow biological men to compete in womens sports. We arent built the same as men. Its completely unfair.
The short answer is some women demanded it. If you insist that women are equal in some things, say women in combat, then it follows that men must be equal in others.
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olivia24
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Thats what really makes me mad sometimes. A small minority of women are the ones that get heard. God made us different and he made me so i can give birth. We are simply totally different biologically.
I totally get the tanking. I've been involved with two nationally ranked swimmers, a scholarship level Division 1 BB player, and a college level cheerleader. At some point the pressure and work involved no longer becomes worth it. What I don't get is the excuses. Biles is not having mental health issuses. She's done with the 14 hour days and the constant pressure to perform above and beyond. I applaud her for that.