• nocturne
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    1184 months ago

    No surprises here. You cannot be having babies and making sandwiches if you are doing sports.

    • @[email protected]
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      294 months ago

      As a stay at home Dad, I also find time to cook and play basketball in the local rec League. I personally think women should leave all that stuff to men and get back to work.

      • nocturne
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        94 months ago

        Former SAH dad here too. Never got into sports, bit I hung with the SCA crowd.

          • @[email protected]
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            174 months ago

            I told my husband he must now be this dramatic when we’re out of onions or what is he even doing with his life?

            • @Big_Boss_77
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              I mean… it’s only fair lmao

      • @[email protected]
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        94 months ago

        As a homemaking executive and full time single dad with no support, I also find time to cook and hike. I personally think women should leave all that stuff to men and get back to work and sugar momma me bc I’m tired.

  • @[email protected]
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    814 months ago

    I was listening on NPR about how women were checked for femininity and given a card after an official go to see their reproductive organs for Olympic sports. Fun times!

      • @[email protected]
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        74 months ago

        It would be interesting for statistical analysis of our evolution, and for fun, to measure every one’s penis and be given a male card:

        Name: Robert Schmidt Soft penis size: 3" Soft curvature= downward Hard penis size: 5.75"… He keeps saying 7" Hard curvature= left up Right ball r1= 1.5" Right ball r1= 1" Left ball r1= 3" Left ball r1= 1.5" Semen color= 270, 265, 256 Semen quantity= 10ml Semen smell= standard musky 275 Semen motility= 50% above average Semen morphology= 10% at average Semen taste= pineapple and onion Penis elastic modulii data…

    • @[email protected]
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      Also, the body that DQed her in 2023 apparently ONLY found out “she was trans” (which she isn’t) after she had fought 9 other matches under the same federation, with testing before each one - her defeating a Russian boxer and immediately being DQed after that match, while fighting under the auspices of a Russian boxing federation, is totally coincidence, I’m sure.

  • Flying SquidM
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    We do not know what is between Imane Khelif’s legs. It is absolutely possible to be XY and be born with a vagina that looks and works like any vagina. They might even have rudimentary (but non-functional) female reproductive organs.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

    If that is true about Imane Khelif, she may not even have known about it most of her life.

    Should all Olympians be genetically tested or just examined to see what’s between their legs? If the former, which event do the women with Swyer Syndrome perform in? How about people with both sets of genitalia? They exist. What about people who are XXY or XYY?

    And if you think the latter- please do justify that sort of invasive examination for the purposes of athletic competition. Unpaid athletic competition at that.

    • @[email protected]
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      274 months ago

      Do we need a protected class? If yes, there must be standards and those standards must be either endocrine or genetic or both. Yes they should be tested. Anyone failing the protected class can compete in the open class. It’s really that simple.

        • @[email protected]
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          Do you really think it’s fair for a full blown man to fight women in the ring just because he identifies as a woman? Women will get very seriously hurt or possibly killed fighting someone assigned male sex at birth. I have no problem letting them do anything that doesn’t hurt others, but this is a case where I think we need to be more sensible.

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            If it’s about who might get hurt, maybe we should divide things up by something other than gender. I know plenty of women who could do a ton of damage with their fists and they aren’t even boxers.

            • @[email protected]
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              74 months ago

              It’s one thing to work within the limits of your physique to become stronger, better, etc. It’s another thing to have a totally different physique that gives you a starting point higher than can be achieved naturally by anyone else.

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                So put those women in a higher class. There are plenty of women with “masculine” physiques… or are you going to claim Brittney Griner is also not a woman?

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                  I don’t think it’s fair to penalize a woman who works all her life to get to a certain level and just make her compete against someone who maybe hasn’t had to work at all because they are physically male. If anything, we need to make a class for people who are physically male but presenting female.

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              This is the correct answer. Divide competitors up by class, skill level, or anything else besides perceived sexual anatomy.

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            Boxing has weight classes. As do most other martial arts.

            The problem is not a 50kg men fighting a 70kg women in terms of injuries and power imbalance. And in that set up the women most likely wins. The problem is the typical situation of a 80-100 kg men smacking down on a 50-60kg women. And that is the image the demagogues try to conjure.

            So if your full blown men is a 60kg feather to be able to compete against another 60kg women, the whole trope falls apart.

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              84 months ago

              A man with the same body weight as a woman would still inherently have more upper body strength and higher ability to gain it as that’s just how men are built vs women. It’s still not a fair way of setting intersex classes.

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                I mean if they’re doing the exact same rigor and type of training, eating the exact same diet, have had the exact same level of boxing experience and fought the exact same opponents at the same skill level, then yes there would be an advantage to whoever is assigned male

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            Do you really think it’s fair for a full blown man to fight women in the ring just because he identifies as a woman?

            Can you cite an example of this?

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              No I can’t because there’s no data to go off of. I’m honestly unclear as to whether it’s a valid issue or not. Even in this case where the data we have seems to indicate there’s an issue, the data doesn’t seem entirely trustable. Anyone claiming complete certainty in this environment with no evidence is clearly just blindly pushing an agenda in bad faith.

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                  Did you actually read said comments? I’ve said this multiple times. It’s basically the thesis of my statements.

      • Flying SquidM
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        What open class? There is no open class at the Olympics. So no it isn’t really that simple.

        • @[email protected]
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          Really? They prohibit women from competing alongside men?? No thats not the case, women only sports is to prevent males with higher biological advantage from taking over the women’s competition.

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            Is this an “Air Bud Rule” thing?

            Also, we have no idea if Khelif is biologically male. We have one corrupt Russian official saying “well maybe.”

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              We actually do have a pretty good indicator that she’s biologically female - the fact that her home country, where she still lives, would’ve jailed her if they figured out she was a trans woman before they sent her to the Olympics. Algeria doesn’t allow gender transitioning in any way, and they can and do imprison people who live as a gender other than the one they were born as.

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                You clearly can’t convince people. Because they just move on to “even if she is biologically female…”

    • RickRussell_CA
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      264 months ago

      The determination of who may compete in limited-class sports must be made by rules.

      It’s not a matter of who you or I think is a woman who qualifies. Only the governing body of that sport makes that determination.

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        I think the debate is about what a reasonable class is. I don’t think that an appendage, or identity for that matter, is a reasonable proxy for capability class. In my mind you really have to go one of two ways.

        You either make everything class-less (think UFC 1) where all weights, sizes, abilities, genetics compete for a singular title

        Or

        You make science-based classes, based around whatever the best proxy for capabilities are (testosterone, chromosomes, height, weight, body fat percentage, some combination of the former, etc)

        If you use nothing as a proxy, there would be a lot of people unable to compete but it would at least be unequivocally “fair”. If you use science-based capability classes you would have a wider range of “fair-ish” competitions, but there might be some weird overlap where some men, some women, and those in-between bridge accepted norms.

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          If you use nothing as a proxy, there would be a lot of people unable to compete but it would at least be unequivocally “fair”.

          The thing is there’s always going to be people unable to compete. I don’t have the ability to compete in the Olympics, and that’s OK. I’m not asking for them to make a class for people like me specifically.

          I don’t know what the “right” solution is, but my opinion has always been that the premier class should be unrestricted and anyone can compete. Whether we have subdivisions is another question, and then what those subdivisions should be is another. Is gender/sex the correct subdivision, or should it be something else? There are many women who can kick my ass despite being a 6’ tall man. Gender/sex is not a definitive proxy for capability.

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        154 months ago

        That really doesn’t answer my question, it just splits it up between different bodies.

        So let’s say it’s just a specific governing body of a sport? I’ll reword it with a minor changes:

        Should athletes be genetically tested by that body or just examined to see what’s between their legs? If the former, do the women with Swyer Syndrome perform in the male or female divisions? How about people with both sets of genitalia? They exist. What about people who are XXY or XYY?

        And if you think the latter- please do justify that sort of invasive examination for the purposes of athletic competition.

        I think you can give a general answer to that question which applies to all members of, at the very least, the boxing league Khelif is in.

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          That really doesn’t answer my question, it just splits it up between different bodies.

          Sorry, that’s just reality.

          I can’t give you a general answer that applies to all of women’s sport, and for a specific answer regarding a particular women’s sport, you’ll need to consult with the governing body of that sport, and recognize that body may pander to interests (commercial, or the preferences of its participants and other stakeholders, etc) that have nothing to do with how you prefer to define “woman”.

          • Flying SquidM
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            So just accept that’s how things are and be happy with it? That’s what you’re saying?

            • RickRussell_CA
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              I not telling you to accept or be happy with anything. I am saying that if you want women’s sports to work the way you think they should work, you’ll need to go through their governance bodies.

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                  What is a sport? Why does it exist?

                  It exists because people come together to play it. And maybe because some people are willing to pay for tickets to watch it, or sometimes because powerful people want it (to sell product, to train people in national defense, etc).

                  If you’re not engaged with any of those stakeholders, you can’t change the sport. Ideas about the limited women’s class of sport will only change if the players & organizers want it to change – or in the rarer case, because the ticket buyers demand change. But many of these sports are not driven by ticket sales, so there is limited opportunity to win hearts and minds.

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          This isn’t about the external genitalia, not sure why you keep going there. This is about the levels of hormones over an amount of time that is known to impart a muscular advantage. The IOC needs a formula for this to decide who can be in the class. This would not be a determination of who is female.

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            So it is entirely based on hormones?

            I guess in that case, men with hypogonadism would fight women. Right?

            In that case, maybe they shouldn’t classify it between “men” and “women” classes.

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              84 months ago

              I think the thing we are trying to regulate is the muscular advantage imparted by certain hormones over certain periods of time. Whether the person being measured has been labeled male or female doesn’t make any difference.

              • Flying SquidM
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                Again, in that case, let’s not classify it between men and women.

              • Frans Veldman
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                If it is about hormones, why then also not test for growth hormone (GH)? People with more than average GH might have longer legs, giving them an advantage in certain sports. There is also Adrenaline, Cortisone, etc. also giving certain advantages. Maybe we should try to cancel out ALL natural variations, to make the competitions more fair. In the end, we can only allow exact clones from each other to compete to each other. And end up with competitions which equal to throwing a dice, because nobody can be truly be “the best” anymore, which can be defined as “possessing the best set of natural variations that makes this person a born winner”.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        At least one X is required because it contains instructions to make very crucial stuff, while Y contains a bunch of switches turning things on and off.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        14 months ago

        If only there was some sort of search you could perform before spreading misinformation. One day such a technology may exist…

  • @[email protected]
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    404 months ago

    IMO this reflects the conservative mindset that everything is black and white and that if they believe it then it will manifest itself as truth. Even if they have to force it to be so in a convoluted and hypocritical way.

    What I think is that nature gives some people the mutation that could save humanity one day. The ability for XX and XX to make a XY if all the XY are unavailable. Mother Nature shows this is a rule in many of the other species on this planet.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      Black and white is how both sides see it, but coming from different directions. Neither are willing to admit that there are nuances in anything.

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean, generally, yes you’re right. The devolution of political discourse has seen to everything being boiled down to one side vs the other. But in this particular case, the argument from the left/people arguing against the right’s weird obsession with “masculine women,” isn’t a black vs white issue. It’s a “whatever we don’t like is wrong” vs “what are you even talking about.”

        Yeah, it’s still a two-sided issue, because absolutely everything is. That’s just how we’ve been conditioned (in the US, that is. Our two party system is particularly vitriolic and stupid). But hat doesn’t necessarily make it a black/white issue.

  • @[email protected]
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    354 months ago

    Obviously women are only allowed to compete if they have six children and do the fundie baby voice just right.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      I feel I’m gonna regret asking but what, pray tell, is the “fundie baby voice” you speak of?

      • @[email protected]
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        244 months ago

        Exactly what it sounds like. Women who adopt an unnaturally high pitched voice (especially) around men as a way to signal a creepy form of submissiveness and youth that conservative men value.

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      By already disqualified IBA which was disqualified for corruption and pro Russia slant.

      They claim they have evidence, but never provide it, they disqualified her after she beat a Russian boxer. Why didn’t they disqualify her earlier fight after she won against the Nigerian (IIRC) boxer.

      Not to mention 9 fights she lost to other women.

    • @[email protected]
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      She was suspended for naturally high testosterone levels by the IBA, a governing body that has since itself been suspended and had it’s recognition revoked due to corruption scandals. (Imagine what it takes for the famously corrupt IOC to say, “No, that’s too corrupt.”) No matter how you want to define gender, biological sex, identity, etc., she’s a woman. She’s just a freak athlete and that’s what the Olympics are about. No one would be all up in arms if her hands had a naturally high score on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. You’d put on your gloves and catch her topaz-hard hands.

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        she wasn’t even disqualified for having high T. they disqualified her first and then did tests and later announced that she supposedly had XY chromosomes, which I don’t believe. I recommend reading through these sources and watching the official statement from the IOC spokesperson (time code added so you don’t have to watch the whole video):

        https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/olympics/boxer-quits-gender-angela-carini-imane-khelif.html

        https://olympics.com/ioc/news/joint-paris-2024-boxing-unit-ioc-statement

        https://youtu.be/https://youtube.com/live/QxeIRI2Qcag?t=1912

        I personally believe that IBA was butthurt about her beating a Russian boxer or got bribed into disqualifying her, and then made up the gender test bullshit to justify it. now the transphobes used this opportunity to pretend to care about women’s sports and attack trans people, even though imane khelif is definitely 100% not trans:

        https://www.unicef.org/algeria/en/stories/top-female-boxer-imane-khelif-dreams-gold-inspire-young-people

        EDIT: the livestream i linked to was taken down. i looked on their youtube channel and theres a video with only the relevant part. you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/D4HiUIX9o00?si=UWz3uqCDXBhg98cI

        EDIT EDIT: nvm I’m stupid, I fucked up the link lmao. here is the working link to the Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/QxeIRI2Qcag?t=1912

        • @[email protected]
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          Thank you for the correction and extra info. It’s a ridiculous moral panic at any time but it’s even more ridiculous at an Olympics where no one is trans, everyone is a genetic outlier, and someone is actually doping.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        While it may be true that IBA is corrupt, let’s not use the logical reasoning that IOC’s reputation for corruption adds more credibility to their claim. Imagine if Trump called someone corrupt, would his own corrupt reputation leads you to believe his accusation more? I don’t believe so.

        We should avoid using bad logic to support a correct opinion because it only damages the perception of your other arguments.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s not necessarily bad logic. If a regular at a dive bar says someone drinks too much, it’s probably a sign that person drinks way too much. If a college kid tells you an all-you-can-eat buffet sucks, it’s probably not secretly delicious.

          Trump (like his diaper) is always full of shit so him calling someone corrupt wouldn’t mean anything. It’s not about logic; it’s about whether the narrator is reliable or not.

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            Is the IOC a reliable narrator, then? Being a corrupt organization would put them in the category of being unreliable to me.

            • @[email protected]
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              There are no reliable narrators. This is wisdom, not logic, but you have to find your own truth. Even particles have Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. There’s always uncertainty.

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                Then what’s the point of your previous comment talking about the narrator being reliable or not? Sounds like you just had no actual point and wants to use inconsistent logic whenever you want by calling it wisdom.

                All I’m saying is that a corrupt individual is not a reliable narrator, therefore it’s illogical to use their corruptness as proof of their reliability at calling out corruption. Your counter examples are not relevant because their qualities does not directly make their statements unreliable.

                And again, I’m not calling out the truthness in this matter, since I also believe the IBA is corrupt, but I’m calling out your use of bad logic to support that position. I’m sure if you actually read my comments properly you’d understood that I never questioned the truth in your statement about IBA, only one of the logical reasoning you used.

  • @[email protected]
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    This is stupid. There’s no “far right” to purge women… the outcry is whether or not women’s sports are being treated fairly. The whole controversy about this boxing issue started when information was released that this female has failed gender tests in the past. Of course there’s going to be an outcry from people.

    • @[email protected]
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      Would it make a difference to you if the controversy kicked off because the org that disqualified these two fighters was banned by the IOC from participating in the Olympics for shady stuff? Or if the org has never said why they were disqualified? Or if the guy making the wild claims is the head of the org and a friend of Putin, and the DQ for one fighter happened after she beat an until then undefeated Russian fighter?

      You really should look into the background of it. Here’s an AP News link

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      If they were doing it to help, you’d think they’d actually look into if what they were doing was helping… when you care about someone or something, you put in the effort.

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly. And the outcry over unfairness in women’s sports is an effort to save it, not destroy it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Lemmy doesn’t care about fairness. Only about ideology.

      According to Lemmy it’s only fair to remove gender based competitions as gender is only a social construct. Fuck all the women who worked hard and dedicated their lives to a single event. Fuck them brutally because we want our ideology to stand victory.

      An extended result of the view is that unaltered women does belong in the home pursuing more domestic tasks.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    Why isn’t this labeled as an opinion piece? There’s nothing in here to substantiate the headline and almost no journalism. I’m not used to work like this from The Intercept.

    • @[email protected]
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      Can you explain a bit more? I just finished the article and I came to the opposite conclusion.

      • @[email protected]
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        There’s a single quote of half a sentence from the New York Post, other than that where is the “right wing campaign”? Referencing Twitter and quoting other journalists does not equal journalism. Moreover, I see no reference at all to women being “purged” from women’s sports. This story is 98% opinion and 2% facts.

        • MrAlagos
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          The far right prime minister of Italy attacked Khelif saying that it’s an injustice that she was allowed to compete, and far right politicians all over the world have started calling her a man flat out.

        • @[email protected]
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          I feel like you’re just being wilfully ignorant and hyperbolic. These days I don’t have the energy for folks like you.

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      Be it by birth, by hormones or whatever, he/she does not qualify as a woman. That’s a fact.

      Khelif has been allowed to compete in female boxing by the IOC under their parameters, and by various other tournaments in the past.

      That’s also the reason why the opponent of this particular fight, resisted to bump gloves after the fight, which is usually performed, out of rejection for that unfair fight.

      This is not the explanation that Angela Carini gave to the public when interviewed. She said that she was overwhelmed by the fight, which she ended by retiring after 46 seconds, and could not think straight. She apologised for it. You are putting words in her mouth.

      And history has shown Khelif was NOT allowed to fight agains other female atheltes in the past.

      Khelif has took part in female boxing for the majority of her life.

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      …does not qualify as a true woman

      What absolute rubbish. You’re no more qualified to judge that than a sparrow – which happens to have more genders and more brains than you, apparently.

      Blocked.

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      Banned governing body that’s fueling outcry on Olympic boxers has Russian ties and troubled history

      It was hard not to copy and paste the whole article, I did my best to pull excerpts and bold important portions.

      Summary- Long story short, the disqualifications were done in a tournament run by an organization banned by the Olympics. Both boxers participated in tournaments run by this organization with no issues for the last several years. The organization hasn’t said why they were disqualified. The man saying the weird trans woman claims is the leader of the organization. He’s a friend of Putin and described as a drug trafficker. The disqualification for Khelif happened after she beat the previously undefeated Russian boxer Amineva 3 days post fight.

      Strangely, nobody who’s up in arms about the weird claim has looked into who made it, when, the context around it, or an explanation for it. They just ate it up.

      Nearly 17 months ago in New Delhi, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was disqualified from the International Boxing Association’s world championships three days after she won an early-round bout with Azalia Amineva, a previously unbeaten Russian prospect.

      The disqualification meant Amineva’s official record was perfect again.

      The governing body claimed the fighters had failed unspecified eligibility tests

      The BA’s decision last year — and its curious timing, particularly related to Amineva’s loss to Khelif — would have raised warning signs around the sports world if more people cared about amateur boxing, or even knew more about the IBA under president Umar Kremlev of Russia.

      The entire boxing world has already learned to expect almost anything from the Russian-dominated governing body that was given the unprecedented punishment of being permanently banned from the Olympics last year. In fact, it hasn’t run an Olympic boxing tournament since the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.

      The International Olympic Committee has decades of mostly bad history with the beleaguered governing body previously known for decades as AIBA, and it has exasperatedly begged non-boxing people to pay attention to the sole source of the allegations against Khelif and Lin.

      The IOC had stuck with the previous incarnation of boxing’s governing body through decades of judging scandals, bizarre leadership decisions and innumerable financial misdeeds while it presided over Olympic boxing tournaments.

      Not until 2019, nearly two years after the organization elected a president with what U.S. officials call deep ties to Russian organized crime and heroin trafficking, did the IOC finally banish the perpetually troubled group.

      The IOC permanently stripped the IBA’s Olympic credentials and ran the past two Olympic boxing tournaments with a task force.

      Kremlev also has made additional allegations about the gender of both fighters without providing proof, and people across the world have accepted his word.

      So much is unclear about the IBA’s decision to ban Khelif and Lin last year, particularly since both had competed in IBA events for years without problems.

      It’s even possible the decision was actually made according to the results of legitimate tests conducted over two years, as the IBA says — but the IBA has refused to officially say what, when or where these tests were administered, who evaluated them, or what the results meant.

      The IOC has said boxing will be dropped from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics unless the sport lines up behind a new governing body

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        India is a very corrupt democracy. As an Indian, I can tell you that sports are inherently corrupted to the degree in which money flows into it. For example, cricket is a sport rife with corruption to the point that the entire world cricket organizations and matches and tournaments are all suspect due to the heavy involvement of Indian corruption spreading its vile degenerate fingers into everything cricketing worldwide.

        The only way you can trust anything here is if there is an independent individual measuring system that is completely corruption immune and resistant to external influences.

        For example, physics, chemistry or scientific measurements. If a boxer is doping or throwing their fights etc. You can measure for those.