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Olympics 2024

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by jake10, Jul 24, 2024.

Discuss Olympics 2024 in the Other Sports area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. MacEwan Himmy Butler Gold Member

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    Nope.

    Thick * like Joey Barton still think they do because the media reported it terribly at the beginning.

    Most people, like myself, have realised now that it isn’t a man. But it’s still an issue for me. If you have a condition that causes high testosterone then maybe combat sports isn’t the route to go down.
     
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  2. Conjuring_Obey Gold Member Gold Member

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    In an ideal world she would be allowed to easily sue some of the people that tried to defame her in the way they did.
     
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  3. MacEwan Himmy Butler Gold Member

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    Basketball is a sport that just works so well at the Olympics. The absolute best players competing at the highest level. That USA Serbia game was ridiculous and it means to much to the USA players despite them all being superstars, it isn’t above them.

    I really wish the football was the same and rugby was involved too, 15’s.
     
  4. jake10

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    the reaction to some goals/results from fitba players show that they really care
     
  5. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    Isn't that like saying if you've big flipper size 14 partially webbed feet and ankles that are double jointed so swing 20 degrees further than anyone else your no allowed to swim? That would * many of the world records phelps set then. Didn't hear the uproar for him being great.

    Many athletes have a genetic advantage. That's why they are top of their sport. Let them fight.
     
  6. MacEwan Himmy Butler Gold Member

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    I more meant the top players being there, the ones there will care sure.
     
  7. MacEwan Himmy Butler Gold Member

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    Michael Phelps isn’t punching folk in the head.

    I will say men obviously have different ranges of testosterone and nobody talks about that. But I don’t know the science behind the levels and how much higher hers is than other womens, compared to the range between males.
     
  8. cidermaster Gold Member Gold Member

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    What a brilliant 200 metres win last night for Botswana's Letsile Tebogo , winning in a superb 19.46 time, he was always going to go for it, all out. Even a fully fit Noah Lyles would have found it very hard to win gold.

    Also i am made up for the winner for he lost his mum in May and was running at the Olympics in her memory. Fantastic for his country as well.
     
  9. blackfish Screaming from beneath the waves...

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    Did you just see that B dance *? How in the name of Christ is that a “sport”?

    It makes a mockery of all the real athletes.

    Talented these folks may be, but what they do is no more an Olympic sport than kerbie!
     
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  10. Bob Loblaw Gold Member Gold Member

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    The Khelif situation is a difficult one and there’s no easy answer to it.

    I cringe at poisonous * like JK Rowling claiming that she’s a man though. She’s biologically female and was born a woman. To say otherwise is defamation.
     
  11. Ľubomír1 Gold Member Gold Member

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    In 100 years people will look at back at it like we look back on town planning or fishing. What the * were they thinking haha.

    That Aussie women was just bizarre. It must give all squash players nightmares seeing that in but not them.
     
  12. blackfish Screaming from beneath the waves...

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    Is it wrong that I find the synchronised swimming very interesting?
     
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    Know the face but can't remember the name but that lass on BBC is luvly.

    And no I don't mean big Clare.
     
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    Some setting that LA bit, looks amazing.
     
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    The Aussie lady was funny but as you say ridiculous that it's considered a sport at all never mind worthy of the Olympics. The fact she legitimately qualified makes it even worse.

    Even if forced to have a dance in the Olympics, a formal dance like ballroom surely has objective measures of being "good". Still wouldn't make sense to me but at least lends itself to scoring. Breakdancing is just a nonsense in a sporting sense.
     
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    I think it will feel a bit boring and soulless when it comes around (like LA in general). Lots of rich celebrity nonsense, glitz and glamour, in a cultural wasteland.
     
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    No boxing or b dancing at the next olympics in LA.