• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    It’s clear as mud when I look at ioc website. I am not sure you or prior poster are correct though. It appears there are suppossed to be some regulations about who can participate in the women’s category and that it may vary between sports. The new guidelines seem very nontransparant. If completely unregulated there is the opportunity for abuse. Your question of why is akin to asking why not simply allow athletes to self report if they are doping or not and simply allow them to participate without testing as long as they say they aren’t.

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      4 months ago

      Okay, so how would you define ‘woman’ so that it is universal enough to fit all types of women even if you don’t include people who have ‘boy’ on their birth certificate?

      Because there is no evidence Khelif is anything but a woman with a lot of strength and physical advantages as a boxer. Are we going to test Brittney Griner to see if she’s a woman too?

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        4 months ago

        I’m not on the ioc bro. I’m curious from someone that understands the policy to learn more about it as these are interesting topics. You clearly aren’t the person to talk to though. I’m not interested in opinions.

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          4 months ago

          Too bad opinion is all you’re going to get for who qualifies as a woman to box other women since there’s not one single organization and also no hard biological definition for what counts as “woman.” But the IOC goes by what is on your birth certificate and passport. You may not like that they do that, but that doesn’t really change what I said initially about what they say qualifies.

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            4 months ago

            Why don’t you think that I like that? What is your source for that being the only criteria that is used and why are you ignoring the fact that they do say the criteria varies by event. You can have your opinions, but please don’t try to superimposr any onto me.