#ioce

[radlymona]

I feel like the “issue” of intersex athletes at the Olympics would matter a lot less if the IOC actually followed a comprehensive guide on what DSDs were male-specific and what DSDs were female-specific and using that as the basis for qualification.

Instead they intentionally muddy the waters so we have no idea whether a certain athlete should be allowed to compete in women’s sports and then feminists look insane for being like “hang on, somethings wrong here”

[taviamoth]

The reason that Russia is banned but israel is given protection is very simple: one is killing white people and one is killing brown people. The International Olympics Committee is a white supremacist organization, and so only considers the former worth a reaction.

[evenstarfalls]

Imagine if they hosted the Olympics in Gotham though would that be fucked up or what

[6ebe]

China and Taiwan sharing a joint bronze medal in horizontal bar is a hilarious unintentional unparalleled sports diplomacy moment 🤣😭

[justinssportscorner]

Anna Merlan at Mother Jones:

By the time J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump were falsely referring to her as a man, the lies about Imane Khelif had already traveled halfway around the world. Last week, two Olympic boxers—Khelif, from Algeria, and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan—were subjected to brutal international scrutiny about their sex and gender, and whether they were entitled to compete in women’s events; the attention on Khelif became particularly acrid after her opponent, Italian Angela Carini, quit 46 seconds into their bout, declaring that she had “never been hit so hard in my life.” A photo of the two women exiting the ring, Carini in tears, Khelif casting a glance, was widely shared, with people like Rowling—who’s promoted transphobic views for years, but has denied being transphobic—offering heated and derogatory commentary about Khelif.   “Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better?” Rowling tweeted. “The smirk of a male who’s [sic] knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.” 

While the attacks on Khelif are of a piece with familiar recent Western controversies over who is allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s sports, many of the articles and individuals magnifying the debate relied on or relayed the claims of a discredited group with strong ties to the Russian government, a deep grudge against the International Olympic Committee, and a seemingly vested interest in proving that the IOC-run games are, as the group’s leader has claimed, a venue for “sodomy.”

In trying to unravel what led up to this moment, many individuals and news outlets cited a statement released by the official-sounding International Boxing Association, which stated that both Khelif and Yu-Ting had previously been disqualified from competing in the IBA-administered Women’s World Boxing Championships in March 2023. The women were barred from that competition, which took place in New Delhi, following tests the organization has not publicly clarified, citing privacy rules. At the time, IBA president Umar Kremlev told a Russian state news agency that the women had been found to have “XY chromosomes” and claimed the two had “pretended to be women” and “tried to deceive their colleagues.” Even if the IBA’s findings were true, having XY chromosomes does not automatically make someone male—women with Swyer syndrome, a rare genetic condition, have XY for instance. Nor are XY chromosomes proven to constitute an “unfair advantage,” although that is exactly what an IBA official claimed in a press conference on Monday. One pediatrics expert told NBC in 2009—one of the innumerable times this issue has been raised in women’s sports—that such a claim was “malarkey.”

[...] When Khelif and Yu-Ting were disqualified by the IBA back in New Delhi, skeptics questioned how it benefited Azalia Amineva, a Russian fighter. The women were not ruled ineligible until after they’d already competed and Khelif had won a bout against the previously undefeated Amineva. While IBA officials said the sequence of events was due to a week’s delay in being provided testing results, as the Associated Press has pointed out, the decision meant the Russian fighter’s perfect record was retroactively restored. Kremlev isn’t shy about expressing a broad fixation on gender and sexuality, with him, as the sports website Defector has pointed out, decrying the IOC on YouTube for promoting “outright sodomy and the destruction of traditional values.” In the wake of the Paris games’ opening ceremony, he blasted the spectacle, which featured queer performers, as “pure sodomy,” while saying the IOC “burns from pure devilry” and that its president is a “chief sodomite.” He also claimed that “men with changed gender are allowed to fight with women in boxing at the Olympics.” (Videos with such remarks have been helpfully subtitled in English to draw a wider, Western audience.) Last week, Kremlev announced the IBA would give $50,000 in prize money to the defeated opponents of Khelif and Yu-Ting.

[...] The Khelif affair captures English-speaking transphobes with rigid ideas about the nature of womanhood picking up on a politically motivated campaign from a discredited organization at open war with the IOC. Indeed, right-wing organizations in the United States, including the Independent Women’s Forum and CPAC, via its chair Matt Schlapp, have paid for sponsored posts on Musk’s X platform, calling her “a man“—posts that appear when users search for information on the controversy.

The International Boxing Association, which is a Kremlin-led body led by Umar Kremlev that is permanently banned from being the sanctioning body for Olympic boxers, has instigated a transphobic war against cis women boxers Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif.

The IBA issued politically-motivated disqualifications of the pair in 2023 that don’t stand up to scrutiny.

[millua]

Imane Khelif is a MAN, a womanbeater and cheater, a disgusting pos MAN!! Fuck the Wokelympics, it certainly is not the Olympics anymore.

[crmsndragonwngss]

Gojira vs. 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games (feat. Marina Viotti)

[sedlex]

This stuffy guy just tried a dad joke calling them "Seine-sational Games" and everybody audibly groaned

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[princessanneftw]

Princess Anne, Chair of the IOC Members Election Commission, speaking on day two of the 142nd IOC session in Paris on 24 July 2024 🇫🇷

[cemeterygrace]

snoop dogg lady gaga peyton manning celine dion these were not people i was expecting to see at the olympics what is this a crossover episode

[just-a-drawing-bean]

Another artfight attack!! revenge on @cero-sleep I just had to draw your Eclipse he looks so cool. I looove the choice of colors for him, was a lot of fun to draw, i got carried away.

[msclaritea]

HAPPENING NOW🚨

The International Boxing Association is holding a press conference in Paris to address the issues surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting.

Dr. Ioannis Filippatos, the former Chair of IBA Medical Committee and an OB/GYN with three decades of experience, has spoken.

He has confirmed that neither Lin nor Khelif are biological females, and has slammed the IOC for using passports as a system for determining gender.

"Medicine is knowledge, it is not opinion ... One passport can give to us the opportunity to be men, and, tomorrow when I go back to Athens, I can go to my government and change my name from Ioannis to Ionnia. That means I am a woman tomorrow? Please. The nature and the biological world do not change."

[cero-sleep]

Illusion of Choice trailer!

Check it out on itch.io

[alonglistofbirds]

looking forward to S so that i can post about the satanic nightjar, otherwise known as the diabolical nightjar

here they are

v_winter

[gotham--fc]

Not that anyone asked but I feel like I should weigh in on the Canada soccer updates from today also if you disagree with me don’t try and start a fight on my post or in my inbox I’m happy to have a discussion but be respectful

This appeal was inevitable, regardless of whether the spying happened or not Canada soccer was going to appeal. Every time a team or an athlete gets sanctioned they are going to appeal on the off chance that it gets reduced, I see a lot of people saying it’s ridiculous and disrespectful to appeal and I honestly don’t think it is, them appealing doesn’t mean they’re saying “we’re innocent” or saying “cmon let this go” it’s them saying “hey maybe we’ll get lucky and this will get reduced it’s worth it shot and it doesn’t hurt to at least try”

I’ve already stated I think the sanctions were too harsh, I’ve seen people saying that Canada should get no points from the NZ game and the ioc should treat the game as a forfeit (ie NZ gets 3 points and the “win”) and I agree, that’s the way similar cases are treated and that’s the way this one should be as well, which is what I’m assuming the basis of the appeal will be. The ioc is punishing Canada for the drone incident against NZ but also for the reports and claims of spying that happened previously, which is what the issue is. There has been no complete investigation on the spying (because it’s just now starting to come to light and there’s years worth of evidence to go through) that investigation won’t be completed for months at least and the ioc and fifa will dole out whatever punishments and sanctions they see fit once the investigation is completed and its findings are reported. The ioc should not be allowed to punish Canada more harshly than it would another team based on what is currently just rumours or unsubstantiated claims. Canada soccer will get sanctioned again later, I’m not arguing they shouldn’t be sanctioned, to be clear if they have been cheating they should and will get punished. At these current Olympics they should only be punished for what they got caught for at these current Olympics, which was spying on New Zealand. There is no substantiated proof or completed investigation on any other spying done in the past and until there is, the ioc and fifa can’t punish them for it

I know you all hate it but the fact is Canada soccer will get sanctioned for whatever cheating/spying they’ve done in the past, they just shouldn’t get punished for it at these Olympics when there has not been time to investigate the claims coming from Canada soccer right now. And to everyone saying they’re making an example of Canada to discourage others, a reduced sanction at these Olympics won’t tell other teams it’s okay to cheat, because Canada soccer is going to get hit hard in a few months when the investigation is over. Canada soccer is not getting off easy, the ioc and fifa are going to gather evidence over the next several months so they know the exact scope of the problem so they can sanction them as much as they deserve