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Melonade

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  1. another NASA reporter is choking hahaha we had a partial eclipse last year in UK, I think I was a fetus in 1999
  2. Usain Bolt now ruled out of charity match after hamstring injury worse than expected I hope he'll do it next year
  3. Please read I don't know if this is needed right now or if this has been said before, but: I'm not someone who has read too much of this thread and I haven't seen what people were saying when Semenya was racing, but recently I was thinking about a solution to the problem with transgender women in sport, especially after watching BBC coverage where Paula Radcliffe, Michael Johnson and Denise Lewis were all agreeing that there is no solution at all to the problem. I think I've thought of a solution I don't know if it's good or not. But it's a solution In the future, transgender people are going to become more common, and 'gender fluidity' and related things will become more widespread This could become an issue in athletics as not just the Women's 800m, but other events, have women who are transgender potentially 'taking over' their discipline My solution (which could work in a world where transgender people exist in some numbers) would be to have 3 Gender Categories This might sound weird. Let me explain: 1: Men (XY and XX chromosome, although transgender men are unlikely to be as physically competitive as born male (XX) men) 2: Women (ONLY XX BORN WOMEN) 3: Transgender Women (Women born XY e.g. Semenya) With this solution, XX women (women born female) will be able to compete for gold, and so will transgender women. Some problems and solutions: 1. If you were Caster Semenya and you were told you couldn't compete in the women's 800m, it might not come across very well if you get what I mean. But I don't think this is much of a problem, there is now a gender category that is more specific to her than before 2. There aren't that many transgender women (yet) that are competitive at the highest levels of their discipline. I was aware of at least 4 transgender women in this year's 800m (the 4th person is a Ugandan person who reached semis), but the medals could pretty much be determined even before the race has begun (Semenya, Niyonsaba, Wambui) so the achievement of being world championship medallist is less 3. In other events, I don't know any transgender athletes (apart from Dutee Chand, the Indian sprinter) but this could be solved by only having 2 gender categories in other events (only 3 where necessary) As transgender female athletes who are the best in their discipline begin to appear, very slowly, timing this solution change would be difficult Thanks for reading, this is my solution, sorry if someone already thought of it (I don't know), and please tell me if it's good or if it's bad EDIT: Response suggests this is the worstest idea of ever (oops)
  4. Hmmmm so I had a dream after Usain lost his individual race that he won and I came 2nd and Justin Gatlin came 3rd and Reece Prescod was 4th lol and now I just had a dream where Usain won his relay
  5. So I ran out my room when I saw Usain and then I heard Steve Cram shout 'GOOOOOOLD' and I ran back in I feel really bipolar right now oh my fu-
  6. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHESIUGFE_OS+)EA)WEGRBUOAWEGIYO(grhwa0i9eoqaefuou8adwhih8347rhygaebfhhafeoiwej :O :O :O :OI :L O :O P !!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rjrkdfkuhdskbfuegbvk ?¬?¬?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
  7. Congrats Daryll Neita, Desiree Henry, Asha Philip and Dina Asher-Smith! Silver medal
  8. Ashley Bryant can win gold in the Men's Decathlon!!!!!!! (If he cuts across the track and run 1500m in 2 minutes)
  9. 5th and 6th for Morgan Lake and KJT............... weve had like 10 4th/5th/6ths and only 2 medals ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh (thanks Mo Farah lol)
  10. Yeah I saw that he won the Hengelo 1500m and was like who is that???? And why does he improve his PB by 5 seconds at a time and never lose? And is he from Bahrain or bought by Bahrain (like Ruth Jebet)?
  11. This is off-topic and I don't know if this is where to put this, but: After the first couple of jokes it is really funny and I had to share it with someone
  12. Okay so apparently there was a volleyball set that ended 87-85 in the Czechoslovakia League in 1979. But it's hard to find evidence of it, according to http://www.volleyball-movies.net/fanclubs/discussion/the-longest-set-in-the-history-of-volleyball-329 63-61 happened in the German League (I don't know when) and 54-52 happened in Italian Serie A in 2002 and between Athens and Thessaloniki in 2007. But in the 1970s/80s, a normal set e.g. 25-20 would last over an hour. So 87-85...!??!!
  13. What do people think about Tiger Woods? Will he be back? After going through his 4th back surgery in recent years, he has said that there is less pain in his back than since before his back issues started about 8 years ago. But unfortunately, by mixing medications he experienced symptoms of being like drunk, and was arrested after driving his car erratically on a freeway. A lot of the news coverage was very pessimistic about his future, but I have hope
  14. Danny Talbot won 200m Adam Gemili 20.64? O.o Churandy Martina 20.76? :/// Hakim Sani Brown 21.10???
  15. They have uploaded some events but shortened. Like the men's road race (cycling), they put up a 15 minute highlights video which was actually some guy saying for 5 minutes 'Here we are in Rio it's sunny now it's cloudy now it's sunny again, this is the cycling and we are in Rio and look there are cyclists and it is not raining and we are in Brazil and did you know we are at the Olympics!!!1!!1' and then it shows the start and the final 200m.....
  16. Now I remembered that I was watching volleyball or archery idk on a YouTube stream and someone miiiight have in the comments said 'check out totallympics.com'. So it might not have been woodu that got me here And I thought their name was like 'sino'? Which sounds like @Sindo ???? Was that you lol
  17. They interviewed Christian Horner before the race and he said they 'would take the FIA out first, they'll be watching track limits so they're excluded'
  18. I must have searched 'Tour de Suisse livestream' and apparently totallympics came up
  19. Ummmm what is this? I love Liberty Media so much
  20. Serbia then Switzerland then back to Serbia?
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