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Jul 16, 2024 22:40:20 GMT
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Post by Totheleft on Jul 16, 2024 22:40:20 GMT
Doesn’t matter . The principle the same . He pointed out an imbalance . When did you become a mind reader anyway ? Known Dan for approximately 6yrs i know his form Mind reademing not needed |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 16, 2024 22:43:23 GMT
Doesn’t matter . The principle the same . He pointed out an imbalance . When did you become a mind reader anyway ? Known Dan for approximately 6yrs i know his form Mind reademing not needed I don’t care what you think you know . You thought you knew that Starmer put away 400000 criminals in jail per year in his 5 year term as DPP. You know as little as it takes to post rubbish on a forum . |
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Post by Dan Dare on Jul 17, 2024 6:19:58 GMT
I don't believe the IOC view it as an imbalance. or even a discrepancy. It is the outcome of a fixed and inflexible policy: "...At a time when gender equality is more important than ever and 25 years after the historic Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the IOC has restated its commitment in Olympic Agenda 2020+5 , the new strategic roadmap for the IOC, with several recommendations aiming to strengthen diversity, equality and inclusion across the Olympic Movement. ...Over the past 25 years, the IOC has been encouraging and working with National Olympic Committees and International Federations (IFs) to increase female participation at the Olympic Games. Key changes have included opening up of eligibility in the various sports involved; the quota places set by the IOC and filled by the IFs; and the increase of the number of medal events for female athletes. Multiple new mixed-gender events have also been added to the further promote gender diversity and equality. Tokyo 2020 doubled the number of mixed events compared to Rio 2016, while the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 will see four new mixed events on the programme. Important steps have also been taken to balance the competition schedule. Starting in PyeongChang 2018, and continuing at Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022 and beyond, efforts have been made to balance the number of medal events per day and the total number of hours of competition for women’s and men’s sport. The IOC is not only seeking to achieve statistical parity, but also understands that every opportunity provided for women's sport and female athletes in the Olympic Games has a flow-on impact for the promotion of gender equality, and the opportunities that are given to women’ athletes around the world."
The Long March has reached its terminus, but it would not have been able to do so except for the willing collaboration of countries such as Britain, whose embrace of a gender 'over-balance' have helped to compensate for foot-dragging by less-enlightened regimes. As always it is important to understand what is being done in our names and why.
Where we are today:
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 17, 2024 6:45:14 GMT
Wouldn't it rather depend upon who set the times, and what they were set to? I haven't checked this time but at an earlier Olympics the female 100m gold medal winner would not have qualified for the mens heats.
It's all to do with making the Games 'gender neutral', not a concept that would have resonated with the ancient Greeks nor indeed with the people who re-invented the games in the 20C. Females cannot run as fast, lift as much and throw as far as men - thats just biology. Not conspiracy. |
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Post by steppenwolf on Jul 17, 2024 6:46:01 GMT
The intrusion of lefty politics into sport is even more pervasive than I realised.
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Jul 17, 2024 7:12:03 GMT
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Post by Totheleft on Jul 17, 2024 7:12:03 GMT
The intrusion of lefty politics into sport is even more pervasive than I realised. Funny you and Dan share the same opioion but are immigrants. |
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Post by wapentake on Jul 17, 2024 7:30:37 GMT
I don’t believe it’s an intrusion of anything,the opening post says it all
So the intention is clear and you want to see what you expect you could’ve just made the second post the initial post.
You have an opinion but can’t just express that you turn it in to a lefty righty thing,I don’t subscribe to that opinion so what that’s nothing to do with being left or right and instead you try to claim some moral high ground.
You haven’t got any high ground and some opposing views have none either they’re all opinions not he called me names,if you have an opinion make it instead of posting to shock I suspect I’m wasting my time if you had a sense of humour and occasionally look in the mirror it might help.
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Post by Dan Dare on Jul 17, 2024 7:53:47 GMT
Thank you for the handy posting tips. Coming from a self-styled forum authority like your goodself I shall of course study them very closely.
But anyway, it's time to look at the impact of UK Sport's decision to reduce funding for 'posh' sports like canoeing, rowing, equestrianism and sailing and increase it for sports that 'inner-city kids; are more likely to take part in, such as skateboarding, 'breaking' and basketball.
How has that worked out so far, and how likely is it that de-emphasising 'posh' sports will assist Team GB in achieving its record medal target while at the same time answering earlier complaints that is too white and too suburban?
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Post by wapentake on Jul 17, 2024 7:58:31 GMT
Thank you for the handy posting tips. Coming from a self-styled forum authority like your goodself I shall of course study them very closely. But anyway, it's time to look at the impact of UK Sport's decision to reduce funding for 'posh' sports like canoeing, rowing, equestrianism and sailing and increase it for sports that 'inner-city kids; are more likely to take part in, such as skateboarding, 'breaking' and basketball. How has that worked out so far, and how likely is it that de-emphasising 'posh' sports will assist Team GB in achieving its record medal target while at the same time answering earlier complaints that is too white and too suburban? I’m not an authority on anything Dan I just post what I think. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Jul 17, 2024 8:00:22 GMT
Cogito, ergo sum eh.
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Post by piglet on Jul 19, 2024 10:08:41 GMT
Everything is now measured through wokery, how many men or women who gives an eff. Black or white, yellow or blue, god help us, you cant complain about wokery then engage with it. I suspect that athletes chosen passed a wokery test, that some of the best were not picked if there were too many whites.
I only found out that the Olympics are coming a week ago, what happened to the torch they carried around the world? the whole world used to look forward to these games. Am i excited? no. Its more of a world party, who cares who wins what, like cricket, series are held but it means nowt. The world is changing, show business is dead, athletics in an Olympic sense has dissappeared, who cares whos fastest at 100 yards?
County cricket is dead. Pop music ended a long time ago. Football is a bore. The BBC used to advertise the snooker world champiuonship weeks ahead of its start, its relegated to bbc2. Prime time tv is now a race to get to garments that need sewing.
Phil on eastenders is still shouting, Eastenders is the same story over and over, using the same words, truly the bbc is from a toilet bowl. Good tv does not exist...when you think of the past. I listened to a radio 4 discussion about westerns, the bloke was saying how misogenistic, racist, non inclusive westerns were.
We are truly handcuffed. That without misogeny, racism, ....get that Indian effer....the cursing of Mexicans, we wont have a film.
That wokery is a new puritanism.
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Jul 20, 2024 7:39:38 GMT
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 20, 2024 7:39:38 GMT
For the second Olympics in a row, more females in Team GB than males: 172 versus 155. A sign o' the times?
As usual Britain shows the way.
It could of course simply be that we have a larger proportion of professional sportswomen (any idea that our athletes still maintain any semblance of not being paid as per the chariots of fire era being a total joke) able to exceed the minimum specification to join and be competitive in our Olympic team than men Or are you saying we have more women with penises and the testosterone-driven muscle mass that comes with it than other countries who still burn such individuals at the stake ..... |
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Jul 20, 2024 7:46:22 GMT
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 20, 2024 7:46:22 GMT
I listened to a radio 4 discussion about westerns, the bloke was saying how misogenistic, racist, non inclusive westerns were.  |
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Post by Dan Dare on Jul 20, 2024 12:11:24 GMT
For the second Olympics in a row, more females in Team GB than males: 172 versus 155. A sign o' the times?
As usual Britain shows the way.
It could of course simply be that we have a larger proportion of professional sportswomen (any idea that our athletes still maintain any semblance of not being paid as per the chariots of fire era being a total joke) able to exceed the minimum specification to join and be competitive in our Olympic team than men Or are you saying we have more women with penises and the testosterone-driven muscle mass that comes with it than other countries who still burn such individuals at the stake ..... With very few exceptions, the great majority of sports at the Paris Olympics have equal numbers of 'slots' for male and female athletes. The 100m, for example, will be run with 56 males and 56 females competing, not against each other of course. The criteria for qualification are very different, For male runners the maximum qualification time is 10s, a time which no female runner in the world has ever achieved, not even the current world and Olympic record-holders.
As for 'slots' (quotas) for other protected characteristics, it's a racing certainty that those will be a feature of future Olympics perhaps even as soon as Los Angeles 2028.
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Team GB
Jul 20, 2024 20:06:50 GMT
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 20, 2024 20:06:50 GMT
It could of course simply be that we have a larger proportion of professional sportswomen (any idea that our athletes still maintain any semblance of not being paid as per the chariots of fire era being a total joke) able to exceed the minimum specification to join and be competitive in our Olympic team than men Or are you saying we have more women with penises and the testosterone-driven muscle mass that comes with it than other countries who still burn such individuals at the stake ..... With very few exceptions, the great majority of sports at the Paris Olympics have equal numbers of 'slots' for male and female athletes. The 100m, for example, will be run with 56 males and 56 females competing, not against each other of course. The criteria for qualification are very different, For male runners the maximum qualification time is 10s, a time which no female runner in the world has ever achieved, not even the current world and Olympic record-holders.
As for 'slots' (quotas) for other protected characteristics, it's a racing certainty that those will be a feature of future Olympics perhaps even as soon as Los Angeles 2028.
I wasn’t aware of the current situation. Twenty years ago jennifer was winning swimming competitions over 100-400 metres and was heading for the national squad. Then some piece of shit jealous of her lack of lard caused by her extensive training kicked her in the back of the knee above a steep grass bank in school and that was the end of her competitive career. But i mention this because even back then it was clear the degree of engagement across all swimming clubs was hugely greater for girls than boys. And i don’t mean the clubs, the teachers, the officials had a bias, i mean there were hugely more girls interested in competitive swimming than boys. Same with the dance, drama and stuff her niece Melissa is heavily into now. In contrast the playing fields across the river are filled with boys playing rugby and football at a variety of ages for local clubs, and engagement of girls in those is woeful, or at least my eldest’s best friend at school who is heavily into playing ‘ladies’ rugby tells me. So what i’m getting at is simply this Is it possible we have a mismatch through simple lack of engagement in the sport at elite level across the sexes I don’t know the answer, i’ve been away from the coalface for ages But it might be simply that. |
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