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Breaking—LIVE Olympics boxing: Italian abandons fight with Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds
The Telegraph ^ | 8/1/2024 | Brown

Posted on 08/01/2024 4:14:39 AM PDT by Phoenix8

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To: janetjanet998

If that was video of THE punch...it didn’t land on the nose of the Italian fighter.


41 posted on 08/01/2024 5:51:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: MTsumi

Amen. Ms Carini and Reilly Gaines need to have a meeting.


42 posted on 08/01/2024 5:54:59 AM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: Jumper
Obviously you are not an athlete, if you consider yourself one you are not at her level. More importantly you are obviously not a fighter, nor have you ever coached a fighter. Screw all the political nonsense I am talking about the athlete, not the IOC, not the French and especially not our hyper gay State Department. If I were this young woman’s coach first I would be proud of her, and tell her and the world how proud I am to coach her. Then I would file a protest and demand for the “safety” of amateur female fighters the male fighter be tested because he already failed two tests and would likely fail a third. If he is not on testosterone blockers and estrogen, he is doping. His body is natural producing testosterone at a level that in women’s sports would be doping

Obviously pandering to the mentally ill has gone too far. But short of quitting the National Team, like Riley Gaines, she is trapped by the system.

43 posted on 08/01/2024 5:57:37 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: MTsumi

And the feminists are silent. They’ve all retreated to their cricket farms.
🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳


44 posted on 08/01/2024 5:58:47 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Phoenix8
On left, the subject in 2023. On right, a retouched photo from 2020 International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Photo retouching by biased elements can't hide the reality of biology (and that Adam's Apple, now backed by blood tests).

It's absolutely shameful to have IOC defending trans in sports (and gaslighting, to state nothing of photo manipulation) placing biological males in competition with females, an order of magnitude worse in a sport such as boxing

45 posted on 08/01/2024 6:02:27 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Phoenix8

I think this brave warrior Khelif should now be placed into a ring with a male fighter who also identifies as female.


46 posted on 08/01/2024 6:02:42 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Phoenix8
In my 70 years, I’ve always looked forward to the Olympics, Winter and Summer. This is the first year I’m not watching. I saw enough of the opening ceremonies to know I wouldn’t waste my time one them. I wish the American team all the best, but I am NOT going to subject myself to the woke nonsense.

I may be wrong, but I’m thinking that a terrorist attack may be less likely- they’re laughing too much.

47 posted on 08/01/2024 6:07:52 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Romulus

Yes sex is the biological reality, agree.
Gender is real in that it’s NOT ambiguous.

I.E.
Boy=male sex
Girl=female sex

All the rest like binary, fluid, trans, spirit gender, cisgender and the other 90..hundreds whatever the delusional leftists are saying now is imaginary.

Is what I meant.


48 posted on 08/01/2024 6:21:38 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: OldGoatCPO

Hey old goat. I may not have been at her level as you rank it, butI maintianed a 300 on my Army Physical fitness test for over 20 years, no small feat, which required I work out on that skill set day in and out. I took that test 2-3x a year depending on military schooling, and never once fell below 292 and only had 7 lower than 300. Not many people MAX their PT tests in the Infantry or in combat arms units. Not when properly administered.

Pertinent to this discussion is a cool fact, one of the Army’s 1972 olympic boxing Coaches, SSG Johnson was an NCO in my company in the 82d Airborne Divison, and he was assigned SD Special Duty to train boxers, several again in my company and battalion; so I’ve been around boxers at the highest levels. When I was an IG I worked for over three years and daily trained with with a guy who won the Army/Ft Bragg TriAthlon Event twice. So again I’ve been side with the best; today Pete is totally physically broken down and I’m in towed jumper status myself. I know from youth old age what a competitive athlete has to endure. But women boxing against men is not one of them.

The fact that you are in strict compliance with the regime’s fake sports says all that needs be said. The truth is that this Olympics, and any man vs. woman boxing event is a political event designed for political purposes.

Every four years the Olympics are used as a political hammer against the Russians, or whoever the West doesn’t want competing... but this year the Olypmics were stolen from the people of the world by the Marxists. They are mocking you and me, and the athletes. They have staged an event fully funded by many countries in good faith.

Having put up with the BS surrounding the US women’s soccer team for years, or the BB take a knee crowd, there comes a point where the person competing needs to simply say no.

This is not Gladiator but real life. This year’s olympics depends on people like you that demand participation for the sake of the games, but these are no longer games but political theater.


49 posted on 08/01/2024 6:24:45 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: FenwickBabbitt

The athletes knuckled under for this expletive-deleted.

No sympathy from me.


50 posted on 08/01/2024 6:29:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Jumper
Passed every Marine Corps and Navy PFT for over 30 years, only scored a 300 once on the USMC PFT, but unlike the Army we ran three miles🙄

However, that does not compare to how an International level athlete trains. Boxers especially have an unbelievable regimen. Then they have to fight their way through Regional, National and International competitions to qualify, while still training at a high level. It is nothing like staying in shape for a military PFT.

Yes, the body does not take kindly to the abuse, but thankfully we now have a better understanding of the human body and have gotten rid of exercises that did long term damage. Sit-ups are horrible for the lower back, for years I did 200-300 sit-ups five days a week to keep my score up on the USMC PFT. Pushups are another exercise that does long term damage for minimal short term gain. Planking and other core exercise are less damaging and have measurable effects. This goes to how we train fighters now. We use new and innovative exercises and equipment that is less damaging to the body.

In the end what we are talking about is a young women who deserves respect for just getting in the ring with a man. That took heart. For those who say she should have walked out in protest, I say they never trained and fought to get to that position so they have no right to tell her what she should have done. God Bless her, she is tough and has a lot heart.

51 posted on 08/01/2024 6:53:15 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: Phoenix8

Badly written headline


52 posted on 08/01/2024 7:05:39 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: seabeeson; anyone
That looks more like smirking than sympathy. Or is it just me that sees that emotion? IMG-9849
53 posted on 08/01/2024 7:11:27 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

This dude’s allowed to be a tranny representing a muzzie shithole?


54 posted on 08/01/2024 7:39:29 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: DoodleBob

Check out the look on the ref’s face.

If he had any integrity, he wouldn’t have officiated the fight. Part of the ref’s responsibility is to protect a fighter who has lost the ability to defend themselves.

The Italian woman stepped into the ring unable to defend herself adequately.


55 posted on 08/01/2024 7:40:32 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Phoenix8
My vocabulary is not equal to convey my disgust so I will stop here.

It's a joke and it's not funny.

56 posted on 08/01/2024 7:43:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Phoenix8

I read recently that about 80% of the gender-confused are women pretending to be men.

I wonder why it is that there are not more trans-men competing in all-male sports? /S


57 posted on 08/01/2024 9:43:47 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Jumper
The chief was not wrong and you have a point.   But what is "towed jumper status" and what would that have to do with your fitness?
19.39. Towed Parachutist.

19.39.1. The jumpmaster will stop the remaining parachutists; the loadmaster will notify the PIC; and the PM will turn on the red light. The PF will maintain drop airspeed, at least the minimum drop altitude (AGL) for the type parachute being used, and avoid flying over or up wind of water or built up areas.

19.39.1.1. Crews should suspect they have a towed parachutist if static lines are not fully tucked into the upper corner of the paratroop door or if a D-bag appears to be stuck outside the door. It is unlikely for a D-bag to become caught on the outside of the aircraft and is a probable indicator a parachutist is being towed. In any case, crews should follow AFI11-2C-130V3 23 APRIL 2012 259 emergency procedures until they have confirmed no parachutist is being towed. Crews should take special effort to confirm towed jumper status at night with limited rearward visibility. They should consider using an additional source of illumination to view the rear of the aircraft.
19.39.2. The jumpmaster or safety observer is responsible for identifying how the parachutist is towed. If being towed by anything other than the static line, the jumpmaster or safety will attempt to free the parachutist. If being towed by the static line, the jumpmaster or safety will make a recommendation to the PIC, through the loadmaster, whether to retrieve the parachutist or cut him or her free. If all parachutists have exited and there is no safety person onboard, this responsibility rests with the loadmaster.

19.39.3. The PIC will make the final decision whether or not to cut the towed parachutist free. If the decision is to cut the parachutist free, the loadmaster will cut the static line on the PIC‘s command. NOTE: Towed parachutists indicate consciousness and that reserve parachute is ready by maintaining a tight-body position with both hands on reserve parachute. This indicates the jumper is prepared to be cut away.

I was Air Force and flew twice in C-130's, one rigged for parachutists.   The bench seats made a great bed, coming home on emergency leave from the Azores.
58 posted on 08/01/2024 10:49:17 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Jumper

Toad Jumper Status is frogs that are tired of life and decided to take a leap.


59 posted on 08/01/2024 11:02:59 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

Following him beat up old and worn out. If you’ve ever bounced off the side of an AC they say it’s like getting old before your time. 101 Jumps and one accident. We all get hurt.


60 posted on 08/01/2024 11:24:42 AM PDT by Jumper
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