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Newcomer First day of the Olympics in Paris: Argentines say "This is a disaster"

kale said:
New scandal in the Olympic Games: Italian boxer Angela Carini lasted only 46 seconds in the ring against Imane Khelif, who is biologically male. Distressed and with tears in her eyes, she stated that she had never been hit so hard in her life. She said it is up to the International Olympic Committee to judge this situation.
From my point of view, they're not on equal footing. I understand wanting to support diversity, but in this case, it's clear that she is at a disadvantage.

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Not so fast. They said this is a girl and always raised as a girl. I feel so sorry for her. That Italian girl has cried before like that losing to another female.
 
MikeRoss said:
Not so fast. They said this is a girl and always raised as a girl. I feel so sorry for her. That Italian girl has cried before like that losing to another female.
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Yes, it seems like people jumped the gun on that other boxer calling her a man. Also, this Angela Carini has a history of crying in matches. She should have shook the other boxer's hand after the match.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819489827131195407
 
Uncle Wong said:
Yes, it seems like people jumped the gun on that other boxer calling her a man. Also, this Angela Carini has a history of crying in matches. She should have shook the other boxer's hand after the match.

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I honestly don't know what to believe. Seems like proof that it really is a female. What a terrible thing for everyone to call her a man. But you have other people in the boxing world still insisting she is a man. Hard to trust anyone these days.

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El padre de Imane Khelif defendió a la boxeadora argelina que está en semifinales de los Juegos Olímpicos: “Es una chica fuerte”

Omar concedió un reportaje en el que dialogó sobre cuestiones vinculadas a su hija, que el próximo martes buscará el pasaje a la definición por la medalla dorada
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Uncle Wong said:
Yes, it seems like people jumped the gun on that other boxer calling her a man. Also, this Angela Carini has a history of crying in matches. She should have shook the other boxer's hand after the match.

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The former head of the medical committee of the International Boxing Association (IBA) revealed that 'anomalies' were found in the blood tests of both boxers, which led to their disqualification from the 2023 Boxing World Championship. Authorities are supporting the theory that these two boxers, who are caught up in a gender controversy, are actually men.

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Juegos Olímpicos: la Asociación Internacional de Boxeo afirmó que las dos deportistas inmersas en una polémica de género “son hombres”

El expresidente del comité médico de la IBA develó que se encontraron “anomalías” en los exámenes de sangre de ambas boxeadoras, lo que llevó a su descalificación del Mundial de boxeo 2023
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"The medical results, the blood results, seem - and the laboratory says - that these boxers are men"
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LongIslander said:
Argentina's womens field hockey team plays in the Semi-Finals on Wednesday. Go Argentina!
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Unfortunately, they lost to the Netherlands and will now compete for the bronze medal.

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Las Leonas perdieron 3-0 ante Países Bajos y disputarán el partido por la medalla de bronce en los Juegos Olímpicos

La selección femenina no pudo ante las neerlandesas, que ganan con goles de Fokke, Nunnink y Jansen en el duelo de semifinales de París 2024. El viernes desde las 9, por el bronce ante el perdedor de Bélgica-China
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Paris was a shithole in 2014 when i was there - groups of tall-as-hell African dudes 20-30 years old would surround people and pressure them to buy junk. i was with a female friend on vacation and had no idea they had so many Islamist/jihadist dudes there, and everything i hear is that it's worse now. i was pretty close to getting physical with a group of 4 huge guys and i was fairly certain i was going to get jumped. no police anywhere, similar to the UK now.

they say if you import the Third World, you get to live in the Third World. can we really blame the working-class Brits right now in the UK, protesting the influx of Muslim gangs? (of course burning buildings and cars is almost always unacceptable). but if you push the political Right too much, you get a very bad backlash.

the Boxing XY chromosome nonsense was horrible to see. @bowtiedmara nailed it with his hijab/niqab/burka comment:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819097424876458064
 
StatusNomadicus said:
Paris was a shithole in 2014 when i was there - groups of tall-as-hell African dudes 20-30 years old would surround people and pressure them to buy junk. i was with a female friend on vacation and had no idea they had so many Islamist/jihadist dudes there, and everything i hear is that it's worse now. i was pretty close to getting physical with a group of 4 huge guys and i was fairly certain i was going to get jumped. no police anywhere, similar to the UK now.

they say if you import the Third World, you get to live in the Third World. can we really blame the working-class Brits right now in the UK, protesting the influx of Muslim gangs? (of course burning buildings and cars is almost always unacceptable). but if you push the political Right too much, you get a very bad backlash.

the Boxing XY chromosome nonsense was horrible to see. @bowtiedmara nailed it with his hijab/niqab/burka comment:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819097424876458064
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@StatusNomadicus it is much much much worse now in Paris. I'm not sure when the last time you went but I took my family last year and let's just say it is much different now. Spain, Italy, France and UK and many other countries all going through the same thing. I see what is going on in the UK now. I agree with you that burning buildings and cars and looting and everything else going on is NOT acceptable behavior but it looks like they were pushed too far and still are being pushed too far. I am not there so not sure how bad/good it is but it is not looking good so far what I see.
 
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