Posted on 08/03/2021 1:13:25 AM PDT by RandFan
Laurel Hubbard, the first openly transgender Olympian, says she would likely retire from weightlifting and feels her landmark appearance at the Tokyo Games should not be historic as sport becomes more open and inclusive.
New Zealand's Hubbard, 43, said she had never sought publicity and exposure, nor regards herself as a role model or trailblazer and just wanted to be seen as any other athlete on sport's biggest stage.
"I don't think it should be historic," Hubbard said of her participation in Tokyo, which had been one of the most contentious issues in the lead-up to the Olympics.
"As we move into a new and more understanding world, people are starting to realise that people like me are just people. We are human and as such I hope that just by being here is enough.
"All I have ever wanted as an athlete, is to be regarded as an athlete."
The soft-spoken, media-shy Hubbard made an unexpected early exit on Monday, eliminated just 10 minutes into her +87kg contest after failures in her opening three lifts.
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It’s not historic, just embarrassing.
The decay of society. Yes, embarrassing!
Apparently this guy is the best New Zealand could muster up to send to Tokyo for women’s Weightlifting? Out after failing HIS first three lifts.
He took a dive so he could always be pointed to as men don’t win it all
This is anything but “inclusive”. The move is on to prove that biological females are inherently physically inferior to biological males, so from this point forward, biological males who pose as “transgender” females (a physiological impossibility, a full transformation from one gender to the other cannot and never shall be possible) are actually in a most particular classification, that of “neuter” if there have been hormone treatments and body mutilations. Otherwise they are merely “transvestites”, boys playing dress-up in girls’ clothes.
So the dude couldn’t even beat real women? Boy,that’s pretty pathetic. But looking at him I’d say that “Pathetic” could be his middle name.
They? Sorry,no sale....”it” seems more fitting.
There is a real woman somewhere in New Zealand that didn’t get a trip to Japan. She is the victim.
Dude got beat by a girl
Very true.
The Olympic Committee should have named him winner despite losing just as they had done for Roman Emperor Nero after his failed chariot race.
They need to award gold medals for vanity.
Yeah. But want to see a total bummer?
https://twitter.com/DidTheyDie4This/status/1422314726323744788
GET FAR AWAY FROM BLUE HIVES NOW.
This sick society is going to crash, burn and explode.
NBC morning show is now focusing on family members of these losers portraying all the sacrifice and mental health therapists they have been using to support them. Nothing was said until Biles tanked. It’s now a mental case review. Just another lame excuse for these losers.
It’s that Rapinoes girl/boy friend? So 2 lesbians on the same Olympic team that sort of even look the same?
Who ever put that “class” together needs to be in jail.
Quinn is on the Canadian Olympic team that will be playing for the gold medal. The best Rapinoe can hope for is a bronze. I don’t read much about Rapinoe but last time I did she was in a relationship with a WNBA player.
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