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That phrasing is a commonly accepted way of describing people's birth gender in the United States. If you don't like the way that source worded it, here's a quote from a story Fox News wrote about them: "Hiltz, a biological female who identifies as transgender non-binary, said it was a win for the trans community." Link: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nikki-hiltz-identifies-transgender-non-binary-dedicates-usatf-championship-win-trans-community

Honestly, I don't remember there being a huge push from within the sport to improve the standard/format of equestrain until it was clear the IOC wanted the discipline out of the sport. Maybe there were some efforts I can't remember (I didn't really follow international sports in-depth until 2017/2018), so perhaps someone can speak more on the topic.

Confusion over their gender aside, it's nice to see them getting some top results at the international level. They've been a popular runner on the domestic scene for a while, so I think a lot of people who bee happy to them qualify for the Olympics.

I'd advise fact checking such things before making arguements against athletes... "Hiltz was assigned female at birth but doesn’t identify with either binary gender, rather identifying as nonbinary and using they/them pronouns." Link: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/17/transgender-athletes-olympics

The 18th Province joins its Benelux cousins on the medal table

Here, I'll give you a slightly easier challenge... Hanitriniaina Rivosoa Rakotondrabé (athletics, Atlanta 1996/Sydney 2000)

Forster did her nation proud too!!!

Or better yet @hckošice... Tojohanitra Tokin'aina Andriamanjatoarimanana (swimming, Athens 2004)

I raise you...Harijesy Razafindramahatra (swimming, Atlanta 1996)

Someone put Carl Lewis’ infamous anthem performance over Ryan Crouser’s medal ceremony

That's fun and all, but just wait for athletes to enter the chat

has Van Der Weken. They just need to find another talent or two

It's wild to see 19 entries in the hypercar class of the WEC after living through the LMP1 era. This new era has me very exicted for Le Mans this year.

I'm still dealing with some minor injury issues, but my goal this summer is to try and set some good PBs on my inline skates.

took both cross country skiing gold medals, including a podium sweep on the men's side (a dominant one too), so they should lead the medal table after Day 1.

It's a bit difficult to get all-time stats on the Winter Deaflympics, but I believe Anastasija Parhomenko won her nation's first ever gold medal at the winter deaflympics The women's blitz (chess) podium has more history as well (so far as I can tell), with Viktoria Cseke winning her nation's first ever medal at the winter deaflympics @Vektor Again, assuming the infomation I can find is correct, also won their first medal (bronze) as an independent entity (ie. not Yugoslavia) in the men's blitz event @NikolaB Full results for both events can be found here: https://cdn.winterdeaflympics2023.com/results/chess/chess_blitz.pdf

Koeck won the first gold medal of the Games in women's Super G (in rather dominant fashion too). The men's Super G was very close with only 0.08 seconds separting the top three. took gold and bronze, while claimed the silver medal. No livestreaming of skiing events it seems Results are available at this link: https://vola-publish.com/turkishskifederation/

To be honest, I'm still forming an opinion on this topic, but my current position would probably be: We shouldn't discount the biological advantages transgender athletes may gain, though those advantanges despartely needed to be studied more throughly so that we have a more comphensive understanding of the biological data. We could then use that understanding to formulate more comprehensive and informed policies. I also think it's important not to close off sport to people. If policies need to be put in place at the elite level to ensure fairness that is one thing, but restricting participation or singling-out trandgender athletes in general does not really vibe with the global mission of sport in my opinion. Like I said the recent discussion on gender equality/equity, I don't think the policy itself is an issue. It was badly needed at the Olympic level in my opinion. The implementation was certainly less than ideal though. I don't think the IOC needed to cut events and quotas on the men's side to reach their policy goals. It's a shame that some fans now see increased opportunites for female athletes as a detriment to male athletes Honestly, there were already mounting problems for modern pentathlon before the Tokyo 2020 scandal, in my opinion. The level of equestrian was already rather low according to some commentators. There wasn't a great degree of universality. The sport was/is a bit of logisical challenge. Plus, fencing/equestrain certainly don't have the relevance to military training they once did, so the sport felt outdated to some (along with it's obvious connection to military culture). I don't think the animal cruelty scandal did it any favors, obviously.

I can already predict how this discussion will go

Sneak peek of the opening ceremony venue. Layout looks very similar to the Kinshasa 2023 Opening Ceremony in my opinion. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2098838800450031

Teya Dora will be busy between both TISC and ESC

I feel like this might be the first (in a minute, if not ever) that our 12 points match. I can't wait to be proven wrong

I'll submit my votes tomorrow @Henry_Leon

Still cool to see entering synchro competitions