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Especially when they barely even exist at the top level. And while this will in the end only hurt non-trans athletes, people can roll over each other to say how great this is. Smart by Coventry and in line for what one would expect from an IOC president, kiss the behind of the - in this case - American president and there you go

Nope. Whether or not they were was never even a serious question, to be fair.

This is going to have an effect on very likely 0 athletes, possibly 1 or 2 we don't really know about yet. It's really mostly the cheapest possible way for them to make a sort of political statement, without having any significant backlash since it won't really affect anyone at the top level of international sports. Edit: worded a bit wrong, I was thrown off by everywhere 'trans women' being mentioned as the target of this. Of course there is also the somewhat larger category of DSD and the likes, which will certainly affect a few athletes - unfortunately they are often thrown under the bus or mentioned as 'not really women anyway' or something like that, despite, you know, being.

Obviously a political decision, everything to please Trump This is a woke decision for plenty of people, judging by 'woke' generally meaning "whatever I don't like".

Some interesting archeological/historical news: the legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan may have been found in a church in Maastricht (where he died during a 17th century battle). https://www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/3131032/franse-volksheld-en-nationale-legende-wie-was-dartagnan

Unfortunately not the first Palestinian killed by Iranian or Hezbollah missiles lately. Recently Hezbollah shot their missiles at what was mostly a Palestinian village.

Ah, now the lady - clearly the one who fell - is coming in to the finish (oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the obvious bib number 1) and he just casually refers to her as Albertsdottir, obviously without mentioning his earlier mistake. Isn't there any English-speaking person who is somewhat involved in these sports who'd like to do commentary?

Oh god, the cross-country skiing is done by one of those typical English-language generic commentators again Keeps calling the Icelandic lady Arna Albertsdottir 'the Australian Lauren Parker'. Mind you, Parker won Paralympic gold in triathlon in Paris so should be somewhat recognizable or known to a professional commentator. Mind you again, when he started with that, which was when Albertsdottir was coming up to a split time, the graphics clearly showed Parker's time as currently fastest with Albertsdottir's time still counting (hence, it was her we were looking at). Oh, and the lady he keeps calling Lauren Parker (from Australia) has 'ICELAND' written on her suit.

For anyone else reading this and thinking "huh?": there isn't any verification or anything about this, and the main claim from this was posted together with a video of a house on fire...in New Jersey...weeks ago.

It was their best chance, for both of them, although apparently Cristian is not entirely without a chance in the 10k.

And that's with gold as well

I think so, but I've asked @brunamoura who is significantly more familiar with it

The bigger issue is doing well at home games and then not doing that well anymore. If they've only kept up a small bit of the investment, it should be enough to stay this competitive in such a small sport. I honestly would be surprised if they weren't at the very top now (besides the fact that I did genuinely believe this specific event, the sprint, would be won by Ribera).

gold, that's been a while

Wouldn't automatically say it is suspicious. Parasports in general are just not even 5% as competitive as the able-bodied sports I think, so theoretically it is way easier for a country to rise up quickly when investments are being made - which is logical for China to have done in the run-up to Beijing 2022. In many parasport events, if you're a few percent off of the best, you're a top-10 or even medal contender. In many able-bodied sports events, you wouldn't make the top-50.

Make it 9 years ago and I'd say one of those medals was already being mentioned as a future likelihood

That did indeed happen like one time, yes Only in Beijing, really, since now they have certainly not been doing nothing or been invisible for years.

Commentator seems to be thinking he is genuinely delighted

Wow, it's silver, what a deception History, but damn.

Next try and this is the big one for Brazil: this MUST be Brazil's first ever Winter Paralympic medal, and it really should be gold.

Aline got stuck behind the way slower Wicker and lost her chance for bronze there

Finals time! Let's go Aline!

Meanwhile the first semi in the women's VI was....quite something. If these athletes could actually see their own races, they'd love it

Plus he started WAY too late with that final sprint, didn't pay enough attention

Easy peasy final for Aline, as expected. The real tough part is going to be the actual final