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How Long Until There Are No Women In Sports?
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This latest is unbelievable. Not only was the IOC decisoin luducrous but also outright dangerous. Boxing is not a sport to play woke politics with.
This needs to stop NOW.
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I'm afraid, tough as it seems, the solution to this lies with the female boxers. They should simply say "I'm not getting into the ring with him" and that woud be that. If they all simply refused to compete against male opponents it would end forthwith. It needs 100% solidarity from the female boxers and it would be stopped in a trice.
I agree that it should not be necessary but so long as the lunatics are running the asylum it will be. If the IOC are happy to see the women's boxing tournaments won by a man via a series of walkovers they might think again. But I doubt it.
it's odd because neither of the 2 named boxers identifies as trans and have always competed as females. also there seems to be two versions of the reason for their previous ban - that is, "having XY chromosomes" or "too much testosterone" - and no indication which was actually correct. to muddy the water further, the IOC has banned the IBA from overseeing the olympic boxing; it was the IBA that previously banned the boxers, but the IOC's own rules are not as strict. It's a bit of a mess.
naomi - // The rights and wrong of boxing as a 'sport' are not the issue. //
Specificallly, no, but the barbarity of the 'sport' is highlighted by the injuries suffered to one of the participants.
To indulge in a situation where the entire raison d'etre is to inflict sufficient physical harm to your opponent that they are unable to continue - often resulting in brain damage - is not the behaviour of sportsmen and women in a civilised society.
That barbaric set-up facilitated this woman's injuries, which could have been a lot worse.
It should be banned.
I've just been listening to Steve Bunce (Who I'm sure you will admit knows more about boxing than every ABer combined) on Radio Five talking about this. There are some definite red flags in this witch hunt against Imane Khelif which need to be addressed before she is burnt at the stake.
first thing is that she is not transgender, and to anyone's knowledge, doesn't identify as such. She has been boxing for a long while, and was defeated in an early round in the 2020 Olympics. This test she has allegedly failed, nobody has seen the actual test results or know anything about them, including the boxers themselves. The IBA, who administered the tests, are a Russian run organisation who were stripped of their status by the IOC last year, so have an almighty axe to grind with the IOC.
I'm not saying these fighters are clean, but there are a lot of discrepancies that need to be addressed before they are banned.
So you think it is ok then sandyRoe?
wolf - // I agree with Gromit at 14:22 - a low blow or a targeted kick will help sort out the boys from the girls. //
Quite apart from the fact that such a change in the rules to allow a low blow or kick would mean that boxing would have to be re-labelled as 'cage fighting', my knowldge of physiology confirms that a hard punch to the genitals of either gender would render them unable to continue, so the first person to land such a blow would win automatically.
Are you sure you've thought this through?
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