Paris 2024

[rodinuk]

I don’t think it looks stupid, it’s their choice if they want to wear it in what is their moment of glory and many women do rather like them - I cite Amy Farrah-Fowler in the Big Bang Theory for example and thousands of brides every year get married wearing a tiara.

https://the-big-bang-theory.com/amys-tiara

Who thought it would be a good idea to give women who win gold medals a tiara or a crown to wear? In a Republic that abolished the monarchy too?! It looks stupid, and it is not something that adds to the achievement of the athlete concerned, but it does make them look stupid.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has turned ‘debilitating fear’ into six world records - Yahoo Sport

[Stavros]

I don’t think it looks stupid, it’s their choice if they want to wear it in what is their moment of glory and many women do rather like them - I cite Amy Farrah-Fowler in the Big Bang Theory for example and thousands of brides every year get married wearing a tiara.

https://the-big-bang-theory.com/amys-tiara

Ok if you like it. Why were the men who won their races denied crowns? And I must admit, I never thought I would encounter anyone citing Amy Farrah Fowler as a source of wisdom...

[rodinuk]

Ok if you like it. Why were the men who won their races denied crowns? And I must admit, I never thought I would encounter anyone citing Amy Farrah Fowler as a source of wisdom...

Her credentials are sound - after all she’s a Nobel Prize winner

[Stavros]

Meanwhile the Gold Medal winning Boxer Imane Khelif has filed a suit in France using a French law on online bullying, one of the people accused being the writer JK Rowling. This is how Suzanne Moore reacted-

"But if Khelif does deliver a swift right hook in court by winning her French case, will that convince her most vocal critics to back down? Definitely not in Rowling’s case, believes feminist campaigner and Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore.“All I can say is, ‘Bring it on’, as Khelif will have to show some proof of sex. If Rowling was ever going to ‘back down’, she would have done so years ago. She stepped forward during the Hate Crime legislation [in Scotland] and dared them to arrest her. They blinked first.
“Everything I know of this woman is that ‘backing down’ is not genetically possible for her. Anyone who takes her on needs to realise this. She knows what this fight for women’s rights is and what it means and how long it will take, and she is prepared to go the distance.”".
Why Imane Khelif’s biggest fight yet could be against JK Rowling (yahoo.com)

So if Ms Khelif does indeed "show some proof of sex", will Moore and Rowling claim it is now possible to be a man without having a penis? And since when is anyone in Ms Khelif's position obliged to obey people like Suzanne Moore or JK Rowling by undressing and showing them their genitals? Are either Moore or Rowling also going to 'show proof of sex' to anyone who disputes their gender status?

If Boxing was a properly managed sport we might not be in this position. It has been mired in corruption and doubt for more than a century, but it seems difficult if not impossible for a single body to emerge that can control what is needed in the sport and have the respect of the people involved in it. Or maybe the Olympic Committee that decides these things could return to the days when there was no category for women in Boxing. Some might want Dressage dropped as an Olympic Sport, much as 'Breaking' that was in Paris will not be taking place in Los Angeles. Etc.