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I am trying to watch the games and my tv keeps on freezing and the sound goes out. I have spectrum. Does not happen on any other ch. except wtwo. Anyone else have this problem.
 

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BlueBleeder said:
I've wanted to say something about this all day, but wasn't sure where to start with it. What the actual f*@% is wrong with society where we think this is okay? From the moment that match started you could tell it was a man against a woman and when he threw that first punch and squared her on the chin I was like "What the hell are we doing?" Who could watch that and tell me it was even remotely close to what a female vs female boxing match should look like?
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left at work. The world is going WOKE
 
SYCAMORE81 said:
I am trying to watch the games and my tv keeps on freezing and the sound goes out. I have spectrum. Does not happen on any other ch. except wtwo. Anyone else have this problem.
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Yes, two days in a row and my wife is about to lose it.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
It's also not like there wasn't already precedent of what could happen here. Fallon Fox fractured two ladies skulls back during her MMA days and that was a decade plus ago. I'm all for trans folks being represented and having the opportunity to participate but there should be a special division just like you have for Paralympics, etc. or they need to figure out a scientifically based approach where people are approved/DQ'd based on anatomy like muscle mass/bone density, hormone levels, etc.
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There is something called the gay rodeo association. That is for a different sport.
 
SycamoreStateofMind said:
Is this the right thread to say how normal it seems to let males box females??
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I'm going to say this and most likely not respond hereafter because getting into a discussion on this topic on this forum is absolutely not what I want to do.

The situation with Imane Khelif is not that cut (pun intended) and dry. Imane was born with female "parts." She is by most basic definitions a woman. She does, however, genetically have higher levels of natural testosterone in her system. More testosterone than an average woman, and more than a competing woman should have. She was barred from competition by the IBA (which now no longer exists) but she was allowed to compete by the Olympic committee(s). It can be debated whether that was right or wrong, but to believe she is a post-op transgendered man-to-woman is not right.

Also, let's also not act like she's come out of nowhere. She has, I believe, a professional boxing record of 9-5...so she's actually not all that good. Just because some Italian boxer, who might just be a shitty boxer, can't handle her punch doesn't immediately mean she's a dude.
 

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BrokerZ said:
I'm going to say this and most likely not respond hereafter because getting into a discussion on this topic on this forum is absolutely not what I want to do.

The situation with Imane Khelif is not that cut (pun intended) and dry. Imane was born with female "parts." She is by most basic definitions a woman. She does, however, genetically have higher levels of natural testosterone in her system. More testosterone than an average woman, and more than a competing woman should have. She was barred from competition by the IBA (which now no longer exists) but she was allowed to compete by the Olympic committee(s). It can be debated whether that was right or wrong, but to believe she is a post-op transgendered man-to-woman is not right.

Also, let's also not act like she's come out of nowhere. She has, I believe, a professional boxing record of 9-5...so she's actually not all that good. Just because some Italian boxer, who might just be a shitty boxer, can't handle her punch doesn't immediately mean she's a dude.
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"She" shouldn't be competing against women, plain and simple. Xy chromosomes = male.
 
Sycamorefan96 said:
"She" shouldn't be competing against women, plain and simple. Xy chromosomes = male.
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She was born a biological female, with female parts and ovaries. She has elevated testosterone and a Y chromosome from a genetic disorder. She’s not trans, she didn’t choose her disorder.

As was even mentioned above, she’s not that good of a boxer either. You just want to find something to be upset about. Do you really believe that Algeria, an Islamic conservative country, would send a trans/male, to compete in female sports?

It’s a very nuanced topic. Want to make the argument that at a level, women who produce that much testosterone shouldn’t be able to compete? Sure, reasonable argument. To keep saying this is a man is ignorant and shows a lack of scientific understanding of DSD conditions.
 

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This is where I apologize for not doing enough research on DSD. I failed to gather all the facts before stating my opinion and it led to me looking foolish. She was born with the condition and its hard to fault a person for that, but still likely needs to be disqualified from female boxing....even though the record isn't that good.
 
This is what makes the Olympics great. A guy who no one knew two weeks ago becomes an overnight sensation in a sport that no one would watch if it wasn’t the Olympics.

Thanks to politics we can spend most of our time as a nation hating half of the country, but thankfully there are still some moments/people that can remind us that there are still great things in the world, like this young man’s story.

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Paris Olympics: Stephen Nedoroscik — the gymnast in the glasses — takes bronze in pommel horse

Nedoroscik proved he is no one-hit wonder.
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4Q_iu said:
https://www.courierpress.com/story/...pic-swim-usa-swimming-paris-2024/74638138007/

Paris has not been kind to Ms. King
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Why you keep working until the last dog dies.....ends her Olympic career with a Gold Medal.

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US Women Break Own World Record In 4x100 Medley Relay With 3:49.63 To Close Paris Games

Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske anchored the US to Olympic gold in a new World Record, breaking the old record of a 3:50.40 that the US swam at 2019 Worlds.
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