Posted on 07/19/2024 12:03:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to the LGBTQ sports site OutSports.
In the last Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, there were at least 186 out competitors, but the list originally started at 121, according to OutSports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, who said the number increased as the sports news site became aware of additional publicly out athletes.
This year, at least 18 male athletes participating in the summer Olympics are publicly out. Zeigler said equestrian, an Olympic sport with eight LGBTQ men participating, has “long been a leader in this space of out men.”
The vast majority of athletes on the list of queer Olympians, more than 120, are women. Lesbians and other queer women represent at least half of two teams: the U.S. women’s basketball team, where six of the 12 players are out, and the Australian women’s soccer team, where at least nine of the 18 players are out.
Women’s soccer, across all participating countries, is the queerest sport at the Olympics this year. Brazil’s team has eight out athletes this year, while Australia’s roster has nine — which Zeigler said “might be the most LGBTQ people we’ve ever seen on an Olympic team.”
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That was when the Olympics symbolized hope because it was a place where the Communist world and the West could meet and compete peacefully. That gave it a transcendent quality, a powerful reason for existing.
Now that reason is gone, and the Olympics has been co-opted by people with a much different agenda. Any institution with great public exposure will attract a certain type of person.
I hope they all lose.
You have to wonder how Tonya Harding would react to that threat for a medal.
“As long as they are qualified and win I don’t GAF about their personal lives.”
Yeah, God sees it just the same way /s
I agree.
That’s assuming they’re even biological women to begin with.
I think that ship has sailed. The Olympics have gone the woke route, which is why I haven't watched the last two.
It’s a shame such personal details of the athletes are put on display. Maybe some want it that way but if I were competing, I’d want my publicity to be only about my performance in the events.
Same with American football. I’ll never watch either.
Also, did they just put a target on the backs of these athletes? Plenty of muzzies in France, and more pouring in no doubt to attend, and/or create havoc.
Good for them. Let’s see how well they do.
No one cares who or what you boink. NOBODY. Shut up already.
Yep. Now I have another reason not to waste time watching the Olympics.
What now, not even Breaking?
If "Breaking" leaves you confused, it did me as well, so I looked.
Yes, THIS has now been raised to Olympic level:
Well is this news? Remember those East German and Russian Women back in the Olympics in the 70’s / 80’s?
Well, there are going to be 10,500 athletes in Paris. So this means 10,360 athletes are not mentally ill. Talk about an agenda driven nothing burger of a headline.
Don’t care I never watch it
I didn’t even know that was a new event.
“Women’s soccer, across all participating countries, is the queerest sport at the Olympics this year.”
There’s a shocker.
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