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Western media? The story came out of Russia. And the parts of the Western Media that is running with it are all your favourite right wing reporters. This is basically something your side of the culture war is using to attack the left.

Weirdly dissapointing day given we won a gold medal. Very happy Sanford will win a medal, though.

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It's very funny to imagine how angry a certain user would be about the Khelif / Karifi bout is the nationalities were reversed.

McIntosh is really tappering over a lot of cracks in our women's team right now

You made him up in your head

SUMMER!

Very sad the women's foil team didn't pull out the win, but... man what a great performance by the Canadian fencers.

Biles isn't dominant like she used to be, but she's still the best.

FAA is having such a great week. He really is a different player when he wears the Maple Leaf.

I actually think it makes a lot of sense to limit access to women's sports from female athletes with DSDs, but for the love of God can we stop pretending these athletes are men or that they are, as individuals, doing anything wrong?

"Biology is an exact science" is such a funny line. Sex isn't a binary, which apparently makes some people extremely uncomfortable. Everyone has some amount of male and female sexual characteristics, and some variation there is completly normal. But I do find it pretty disturbing to call someone who, as far as we know, has every major female sexual organs and has been considered a woman "not female" just because she happens to have DSD. Because she's certainly not a male either.

Is there any evidence Pan is suspect, other than him being Chinese? My understanding is that he hasn’t ever tested positive for anything and wasn’t involves in the TMZ scandal.

Yup. gifted the gold to there. I am happy the referee didn’t let him get away with those two blatant penalties just because he was ahead with a few seconds left.

Anything less than at least one gold medal would be a disaster xD

This six point penalty was no problem

FAA really playing out of his mind so far these Olympics.

THEY DID IT!

Dabrowski really isn't playing well in this second set tie-break :/

Well lets not dwelve too deeply in how got it's basketball team :P

beat the !

They showed Micheal Phelps’ reaction to Léon Marchand’s 200m butterfly win and he looked *so* happy. It’s been fun seeing Phelps he such a big fan of Marchand.

Heh, the NBC comentators don't seem to have any issues with how is being scored xD

Dissapointing results for Tammara Thibeault, losing a close 3-2 split decision against Cindy Ngamba. I actually don't think the result was unfair (to me this was a fight that could have reasonably been given either way), just an unfortunate draw for Thibeault.

I would not be surprised if Ngamba ends up winning this tournament. She’s been fancied as an up and comer.