I’m just picturing that robot from Star Trek (the one thinking about “this sentence is false”) going “huh” and then blowing up…

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    it’s hilarious that i see more press coverage/ discussion about the scandals every olympics than i see anyone talking about the winners. for the same reason reality tv ever became a thing

    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      53·
      3 months ago

      What’s wild here is there isn’t even a scandal. Conservatives are so obsessed with genitals and making up rules that now they can’t even decide what a woman is anymore and they’re making it these athletes’ collective problem.

        • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
          29·
          3 months ago

          Why are you making up lies? The Olympic Committee requires transgender female athletes to have been on estrogen and T blockers for at least two years before competing in the women’s league.

          • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            33·
            3 months ago

            Which would be relevant if the athletes were trans.

            But they aren’t. So it isn’t.

            Which makes bringing it up pointless.

    • hushable@lemmy.world
      34·
      2 months ago

      I’ve seem more coverage on this than the Netherlands sending a convicted child rapist to represent their country

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      3 months ago

      Was at a kid’s birthday party and one of the dads brought up the subject, I asked if Michael Phelps should have been disqualified for having a genetic advantage over the people he was competing with and if Imane Khelif would have been treated that way 20 years ago, that shut him up real quick.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Imane Khelif has XY chromosomes

          Even if it mattered (it doesn’t), we don’t know this. We know that the IBA says she failed some kind of gender test, and that one member of the IBA later and unofficially came out and gave more detail about that. But we have no reason to trust any of it, because the IBA’s official statements have been vague and evasive, and anyway the IBA is so corrupt that even the IOC refuses to deal with them, which is why the IOC is operating boxing directly itself at this Olympics.