Posted on 07/01/2024 10:49:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Transgender and nonbinary middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz ran the second fastest time ever of any American in the women’s 1500-meter race at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Hiltz, who uses they/them pronouns, charged ahead of Elle St. Pierre and Emily Mackay in the final stretch of the race, finishing with a time of 3:55:33, a trials record. All of the top eight finishers set a new personal best time, according to OutSports. Paris will mark Hiltz’s Olympic debut.
In a post-race interview with NBC Sports, Hiltz, 29, said the race had significance beyond their personal accomplishment.
“This is bigger than just me. It’s the last day of Pride Month. ... I wanted to run this one for my community,” they said. “All the LGBT folks, yeah, you guys brought me home that last hundred [meters]. I could just feel the love and support.”
Hiltz said Elle St. Pierre, who finished third and was the top-finishing American in the Tokyo Olympics women’s 1500, pushed them and the other runners to go faster. St. Pierre was in the lead for most of the race, finishing the first lap in 61 seconds.
“Elle St. Pierre has elevated women’s distance running. I saw the time, and I didn’t think that was possible,” Hiltz told NBC Sports. “We all had to rise because of her. … Awesome team we’re sending to Paris.”
Pierre and the second-place finisher, Emily Mackay, also qualified for the Paris Olympics Sunday.
Hiltz wrote in a social media post Monday that a childhood dream of theirs came true when they qualified for the Paris Olympics.
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This individual is a biological female. I would think this individual would have to abide by the same performance enhancing drug restrictions as the other competitors. I saw this individual up close a few years ago at the Fifth Avenue mile in New York.
Why not?
Because someone (real woman swimmer Riley Gaines) raise an all-fired public stink about it and the unfairness of it. Because she stood up and said something, others did too, and the NCAA had to take notice.
It may take a bit for the IOC to takenotice, but it’s time they did.
Exactly. The legitimate athletes who worked hard to qualify for the Olympics deserve better than to have some stupid guy with weird fetishes who can’t qualify under his own sex ruining it for them.
I won’t be watching this garbage either.
For the Olympics, non-binary competitors who were assigned female at birth are generally allowed to compete in female categories if they haven’t received hormone therapy.
If you know something I don't about this runner, please share....
“If you know something I don’t about this runner, please share....”
Well aren’t you just too cool.
Have you seen pictures of this person running or standing still, its physicality?
Not a particle of female in evidence. And you think that is normal or natural?
However, if you salivate over transgenders, no one here will stand in your way.
I thought the Olympics was testing to make sure XX competed with XX this time around. They’re doing everything they can to insure even less viewers than last time. Eventually, only moms and dads will be watching little twinkle toes.
This person might be nuts, but that doesn't mean I have to be nuts, too....
Usually a person is “assigned” gender at conception. Not what the doc chooses at birth.
The Olympics celebrate transsexuals competing, but Russian athletes are banned for “performance enhancing” drugs. The hypocrisy is shameless.
Reason # 2,345 I won’t be watching the Olympics. I hope this thing loses.
You forgot Caitlin Clark.
Evidence??
Just take a few looks at whatever it is.
The way a human body presents itself is not a mystery.
There are still only two choices.
You obviously never saw Martina Navratilova in the 70’s....
Maybe they should have been banned from competition for not looking the way you think they should look....
Look, she goes as a transgender female, which means fake female, so I will assume “they” knows/know best.
I don’t GAF if she identifies as a toaster. So long as she’s not using PED’s why should anyone else care what’s going on in her head....
I saw the race live and wanted to vomit. The idiot female announcer used they/them pronouns.
Elle St Pierre comes from a small town in Vermont off a dairy farm and is very likeable.
He has not competed globally as the IAAF will not allow it.
I was under the impression that the Olympics were not allowing it. I’m very confused.
That said, I watched all of the track/field trials and almost all of our athletes thanked GOD and were proud Americans.
btw I agree with your post abt the national anthem.
If they are going to denigrate it, I see zero reason for that tradition to continue at the pro sporting events.
Would be nice if an organization would come up with new guidelines for the national anthem.
There are 162 games in a MLB season. Let's save it for Memorial Day, Veterans Day or other important days on the calendar.
Great reminder of why I am boycotting watching the Olympics.
Pervert trash.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:
She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
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