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Trans woman weightlifter cleared to compete in Tokyo Olympics
New York Post ^ | July 17, 2021 | Jon Levine

Posted on 07/18/2021 11:55:34 PM PDT by KingofZion

The International Olympic Committee has cleared a transgender athlete to compete in the upcoming Tokyo games.

The IOC ruled Saturday that Laurel Hubbard, 43, who is a biological man, can compete for New Zealand in the women’s weightlifting super-heavyweight category and that her inclusion does not violate the current rules on the books.

She is on track to be the first transgender athlete to ever compete in the games.

“The rules for qualification have been established by the International Weightlifting Federation before the qualifications started,” IOC boss Thomas Bach said during a new conference Reuters reported. “These rules apply, and you cannot change rules during ongoing competitions.”

Bach stressed that the rules were currently under evaluation and would be reviewed at a later date.

Transgender athletes have been officially allowed to compete in the Olympic games as women since 2015.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ioc; japan; olympics; transathlete; transgender; weightlifting
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To: Ikeon
So a man with or without a penis, needs to compete as a man, not as a woman.

My rule has always been simple. Athletes need to take a physical before competing.

If they have a penis and balls (or not), they compete with the men.

If they have a vagina, they compete with the women.

If they have neither, then they need to start their own team and compete with the other odd assortment of parts.

21 posted on 07/19/2021 2:20:24 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Candor7

“I am pretty close to not watching any of the Tokyo Olympics on TV, even though in Japan, one of my favorite countries”

I have been in Japan since 1985 . Haven’t watched the Olympics since the US beat Russia in hockey in 1980 . Will NOT be watching this time , either .


22 posted on 07/19/2021 2:25:57 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: KingofZion

Funny/sad that this year’s Tokyo Tranny Olympics will also be a superspreader event for the Wuhan Flu and whatever new variant the health “experts” are cooking up this week. We should actively discredit the Death Olympics and boycott its global advertisers and sponsors for endorsing Death.


23 posted on 07/19/2021 2:40:12 AM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: KingofZion
She is on track to be the first transgender athlete to ever compete in the games.

That's a lie for the most part. The women's middle distance events in the Olympics have been destroyed by an ever-increasing group of "higher than normal testosterone" women who magically are all from Africa. It began with Caster Semenya and when others saw that Semenya got in and started winning, they figured they'd better jump in while the jumping was good. I guess the only question is will they continue the high testosterone charade once every women's event from 100 meters to marathon is destroyed by transgenders.

24 posted on 07/19/2021 2:47:44 AM PDT by Dahoser
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To: KingofZion

Let’s make it interesting and let the athletes take all sorts of performance enhancing drugs in an all drug olympics.

(but not really)


25 posted on 07/19/2021 2:54:35 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: sushiman

I have been in Japan since 1985 . Haven’t watched the Olympics since the US beat Russia in hockey in 1980 . Will NOT be watching this time , either .>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So many Pachinko Parlors and so little time? LOL.

All jesting aside, my son has been in Japan since 2007, marrooed there and has three children, two sons and a daughter and a very beautiful wife.He’s living the dream.And his lady wants to be a home maker and mother but does accounting work when the windows of opportunity open.

She is from Aichi, they started work in Ichinomiya , near Nagoya years agoand as his career progressed, they moved to several locatins and then now to Tokyo.

You have been there a long time. You must have incredible language skills.


26 posted on 07/19/2021 3:03:13 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: KingofZion

Have not watched the last 4 Olympics, go figure.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, to bring me back to watching it any time soon.


27 posted on 07/19/2021 3:06:07 AM PDT by cranked
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To: KingofZion
I'm sure there will be an asterisk next to his weenie.
28 posted on 07/19/2021 3:11:18 AM PDT by centermass_socrates (Got to keep the loonies on the path.)
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To: HotHunt
Agreed. Even a retarded fool can see where this will go, which is why liberals miss the point. They aren't even as intelligent as a retarded fool.

Viz. "women's sports" will morph into nothing but a bunch of pathetic men calling themselves women. There will be no point in women competing.

29 posted on 07/19/2021 3:23:29 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: KingofZion

I wonder what the odds are it will win the gold?


30 posted on 07/19/2021 3:38:49 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: KingofZion
STEAL THIS MEME


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31 posted on 07/19/2021 3:40:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: KingofZion

Demonic.


32 posted on 07/19/2021 4:03:06 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: KingofZion

A man competing against a woman in weightlifting is wrong. Those who disagree are backwards.


33 posted on 07/19/2021 4:08:38 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

East Germany was part of the Soviet Bloc.


34 posted on 07/19/2021 4:28:27 AM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: noiseman

That’s exactly what I think too.

Lib women did this to themselves. Hoisted by their own petard, so to speak.


35 posted on 07/19/2021 4:31:45 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill )
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To: Ikeon
...he’s not a woman, he just a man without a penis.

Nursie:Nursie: Out you popped and everyone’s shouting: “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!”

And somebody said: “But it hasn’t got a winkle!” And I said: “God be praised, it’s a miracle. A boy without a winkle!”

And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. Everyone was really disappointed.

36 posted on 07/19/2021 4:38:43 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: KingofZion

Mandatory pap smear...


37 posted on 07/19/2021 4:39:04 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Mark17

If they were smart they would do that.

But they’re just girls...

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JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


38 posted on 07/19/2021 4:57:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: KingofZion

Olympics like the NBA and NFL are dead to me.
A pity but they get what they deserve.
And I as an old white guy refuse to have any thing to do with these horse crap “sports” that tell me I am a bad guy just for being an old white guy, or that some freak show male is a girl.
F-em.


39 posted on 07/19/2021 5:00:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (You Go Donald.)
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To: KingofZion

Shouldnt have watched


40 posted on 07/19/2021 5:03:55 AM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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