Olympic Games Paris 2024 - AH Thread [Thread banned posters listed in first post.]

I don't think they've showed any weight lifting. I love watching that

And it is a repeat. They showed it last night aswell

Exactly. Nobody is desperate to win it. Everyone is desperate to win a major.

If you've to win it to care about it, then it doesn't matter. You've proven yourself wrong.

Is it tiring always having an alternative and different opinion? I'd find that exhausting

Imane Khelif won. Unsurprisingly.

Imane Khelif, the 25-year-old Algerian whose DNA tests have shown the male pattern of XY chromosomes, has swept all the way to the women’s welterweight title after dismantling four successive opponents in four utterly one-sided contests. The outcome of which the International Olympic Committee had for so long been warned – that an overwhelming focus on inclusion could remove fair sport for women – has finally come to pass.

Now we have Lin Yu-Ting in the 57kg category to "look forward" to this evening. If, as predicted, Julia Szeremeta loses, that will be two out of the six gold medals in women's boxing which will have gone to boxers with XY chromosomes. Which at the very least should raise serious questions about how such a tiny minority of the population can be so over-represented in Olympic gold medal winners.

I say "should" because it has become clear that many people involved in the highest levels of sport don't actually care about protecting women's sports, or women's interests. Thomas Bach, at yesterday's closing conference, said both that there is no scientific way to identify males from females, and that Lin and Khelif are definitely women. Both those claims cannot be true, but he wasn't queried on that by any of the journaliasts present.

They can’t release details of the tests unless either boxer appeals the decision which neither did.

The above poster has made a claim they have XY chromozones. They have no evidence to support that. We have no idea how they failed the test and what the test was. There's nothing stopping the IBA releasing testing frameworks.

They meet the IOC rules.

Both didn't appeal due to the prohibitevly high costs of CAS. One did appeal but withdrew for the reason above.

I usually enjoy watching the weight lifting, a strangely intriguing spectator sport, but alas it it didn't seem to feature in RTE or BBC coverage. But otherwise the climbing as a relatively new sport was excellent, the brutal physicality and problem solving required for the boulder and lead makes for a really tense competition.

It really doesn't matter how close the fights are. It's down to whether an opponent has an unfair advantage . I'm not saying kelif had as I really don't know nor do most of us.

Peter Collins: "We hope to show you some women's subpar golf."

Subpar indeed.

Boards went mental there for a bit

BBC showed some yesterday afternoon

when you’re reading stories from supposedly professional journalists describing contests as utterly one-sided to push this sensational cheating claim/angle, and when you’re reading about people claiming a man is beating up women, of course it matters.

They didn't appeal because the can't afford CAS. It's expensive.

Evidence for this please? They chose to do without the World championship prize money rather than appeal the results, so this seems an odd kind of logic, to say the least. A bit like a potential champion fighter doing without a coach because they're too expensive.

Or are you just making stuff up?

(And as i said previously, the IBA did not do the tests, two separate and independent labs carried them out. So this is a red herring.)

And when the boxers concerned could remove all doubt in 5 minutes by agreeing to publish their results (or doing new ones) but choose not to, and to prevent the IBA or media outlets from doing so, then it's a reasonable suspicion to have. Remember ow long Lance Armstrong kept the "suspicions" about him at bay with threats of legal action?