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Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.
Time to support her, because even without the racism element I expect she will be getting some flak from Awful, Awful People.
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#i don't watch the olympics but i knew these kinds of incidents would start popping up#extremely sad and extremely predictable...#i wish all of these affected athletes the very best - the system has failed them in the same way it continues to fail the rest of us#sars cov 2#twt#long post#''you might get really sick lose the career you spent your whole life training for and possibly die idk.#but them's the breaks. still fine for everyone to get infected with covid over and over and over again though''
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Since some new athletes subject to gender (sex) testing are getting a lot of spotlight shined on the transphobic elements of this practice, please can people keep in mind the intersexist nature of sex testing. While many concerns raised about athletes’ gender/sex are related to transphobia, the material reality is that these people aren’t trans, they are intersex. These tests reveal that these women have hyperandrogenistic conditions that make them intersex. They are experiencing oppression based on having an intersex condition. This isn’t “oops we oppressed a cisgender person who might have been trans,” it is the intentional oppression of people who are intersex.
#intersex#intersexism#this is not even to mention the#misogynoir#at play in many of these cases#Black female athletes are at a much greater risk of being victimized by these tests#transmisogyny#is a legitimate aspect to this practice#but it feels like a lot of you are forgetting or willfully ignoring that this is#a major example of what intersexism looks like
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NOAH LYLES crashes ARMAND DUPLANTIS' interview after he set a new pole vault world record at the Paris 2024 Olympics
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── .✦ GOOD GAME !
Your boyfriend just won an importang match. In a huge stadium, with lots of people watching. Not just in the stadium. This game was probably in hundreds of tvs outside or inside of a home. Kids, adults, teenagers watching. And your boyfriend just won the last match. At least your secret boyfriend.
After a bit of celebration with his teammates, thanking the people who are cheering for them and some awardings or a speech with their coach he immediately ran to you.
You were there watching him win, watching him score every point or defend every attack from their opponent. Your hands was laying on the railings. He was on the other side. On the court/field.
You raised your hand, offering him a high five. Even if their were still a hundred or even thousands of people. He still ran to you. His secret lover. "Congrats. That was a good game." He responded to your high five his hand on top of yours but then he pulled you, and then kissed you on the lips. Infront of all the people. You swore you heard alot of camera flash, screams and gasp's.
I thought you two were supposed to go soft launch?
⤷kageyama, hinata, YAMAGUCHI, kuroo, kenma, OIKAWA, iwaizumi, BOKUTO, AKAASHI, atsumu (HQ) isagi, bachira, rin, SAE, nagi, REO, CHIGIRI, karasu, otoya, shidou, aiku (BLLK) + ur favs !
Note: sorry guys i felt a lil silly😋
#blue lock#blue lock x reader#bluelock x reader#nagi seishiro x reader#rin itoshi x reader#sae itoshi x reader#isagi yoichi x reader#meguru bachira x reader#hinata shoyo x reader#kageyama tobio x reader#yamaguchi tadashi x reader#kuroo tetsuro x reader#kenma kozume x reader#oikawa toru x reader#iwaizumi hajime x reader#bokuto koutarou x reader#keiji akaashi x reader#atsumu miya x reader#reo mikage x reader#chigiri hyoma x reader#karasu tabito x reader#otoya eita x reader#shidou ryusei x reader#oliver aiku x reader#haikyuu#haikyuu x reader#haikyuu x you#blue lock x you#vynwrites#i want an athletic bf
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“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”
#women#Bobbi Gibb#first woman Marathon runner#pass the torch#first of many#visionaries#paving the way#running#athletics#women athletes#Boston Marathon#earned accolades#running races#Where there is a will...#challenging prejudice#challenging the rules
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(teaching my art class)
me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?
a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-
me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald
gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-
me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa
#mumbling#don’t worry i’m not actually an art teacher i would never#no one deserves that#the art class is a metaphor#man when i was in high school i did NOT fully register how messed up it was that teachers could just do that#like the gym teacher at my school would give straight-A 4.0 students bad grades as some kind of power trip#for underperforming on athletic tests she didn't even pretend to prepare us for
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the best part of challengers is how they’re all barely 32 if that and it’s like listen my better years are behind me. my wife will shoot me like a dog if I don’t make it to semis this season
#challengers#I love how athletes live on a different much more destructive timeline than normal people
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So a boxer or a shooter? Or both?
I can’t stop with this batfam x Olympics
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#rugby#athlete#sports#jock#gay#gay men#gay tumblr#gaylife#gaystagram#gay boys#gay guy#gay man#gayboy#gayguy#gayman#gayhot
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Riz breaking the 4th wall is the funniest thing in the world to me
#sketch dump#hand still hurty so no render#riz gukgak#fabian aramais seacaster#adaine abernant#fig faeth#jawbone o'shaughnessey#d20#dimension 20 fantasy high#fhjy#fanart#comic#if you have the version of this post where i misspelled athletics....close your eyes#i gotta stop lettering comics at 10 pm oh my god
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silly little sport… i imagine being a professional baseball player is like being paid to play in the dirt with your friends during recess
#why are they so cute……..#i watch baseball for the sidequests etc#truly believe that in the alternate dimension where i’m an athlete my sport is baseball#oneil cruz#pittsburgh pirates#bo bitchette#toronto blue jays#baseball#autoplay warning
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