Posted on 12/14/2020 2:13:35 PM PST by xomething
The Ohio High School Athletic Association released an update to their Coronavirus regulations December 1, with predictable rules such as the wearing of masks while in community areas and during team travel, and temperature testing before competition. However, it also included some seemingly contradictory rules such as the elimination of athlete handshakes pre-and post-match. Officials are also no longer allowed to indicate the winner of the match by raising the wrestler’s hand.
Fist bumping other wrestlers, coaches, or officials is also prohibited.
Dr. Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, wrote in May about handshakes in high school sports:
... In wrestling, for instance, shaking hands before a match is actually a part of the rules, which, of course, will have to be relaxed for the coming season. ...
The rules state the procedure for declaring a match-winner as:
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
AM speechless
That’s because viruses lose (they are lousy wrestlers).
I can’t think of anyone in Ohio that I want to wrestle with.
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Ohio Coronavirus Rules Allow Wrestling, But Not Shaking Hands
Breitbart ^ | 12/14/2020 | Lara Gwynn
Posted on 12/14/2020, 5:13:35 PM by xomething
a friend who is a teacher told me this the other day. I laughed. It is so absurd.
The other thing in Ohio that is so strange is that a school can be locked down for corona and all virtual classroom, but it can at the same time have its sports program 100% functional. So, the kids can have full body contact, sweat all over each other, do group huddles, etc., but they can’t sit in a classroom.
And the same parents who will bitterly denounce kids being the classroom will bitterly denounce any shutdown of sports. The hypocrisy is stunning.
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