Melissa Bishop

It is true. She maybe was the most ripped off athlete in Rio. No bonus from sponsor and loses $20,000 or so by not getting a medal.

She also has stayed with her coach who has supranuclear palsy, a degenerative condition that has no cure. She dedicated her Olympic race to him.

She has a boyfriend who she's been with for 8 years yet could be with anyone she wants. This woman understands loyalty and fairness and has a bunch of class.

Melissa For Gold wrote:

She was disappointed but made no derogatory statements or controversial remarks. She says to the media that she has just started and is looking forward to more years training and racing.

She is Canadian. As such, she could be fined for making derogatory statements against transgenders.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a bill that would criminalize anti-transgender speech, with violators receiving up to two years in prison."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/23/heres-the-punishment-canadians-found-guilty-of-anti-transgender-speech-could-soon-face/

Blah Blah. wrote:

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a bill that would criminalize anti-transgender speech, with violators receiving up to two years in prison."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/23/heres-the-punishment-canadians-found-guilty-of-anti-transgender-speech-could-soon-face/

No wonder Bishop kept her mouth shut!

But she is still hot. Do you think she'd trade her hotness for a gold medal if she had to be butch? I don't

Melissa For Gold wrote:

This is a woman who has done everything right. She is talented, went to university where she developed as an 800m runner. Became pro and trained for 4 more years slowly becoming world class.

She had a great year in 2016 with a great base. She went to Flagstaff and did her base. Started the season off well and broke the Canadian record twice.

She got to Rio and ran the heats and semi-final well. She was prepared for big things in the final where she sets a PB and a Canadian record. But she only gets 4th as 3 intersex athletes are ahead of her.

She was disappointed but made no derogatory statements or controversial remarks. She says to the media that she has just started and is looking forward to more years training and racing.

This woman does no wrong, but to me, deserves a medal.

Fully agree.

The SJW emperor has no clothes, but most people are afraid to admit it.

for the record, this whole niyonsaba thing is silly - she has a feminine voice and, to my eye, face.

wambui and semenya are different stories

They've gotta go back to the previous standard, where athletes couldn't compete in the womens category if they had elevated testosterone from being intersex. It's an unfair advantage, much like a senior athlete would have if they were allowed into a junior athlete competition. I don't envy Coe trying to fix this problem -- legal cheating.

agip wrote:

for the record, this whole niyonsaba thing is silly - she has a feminine voice and, to my eye, face.

wambui and semenya are different stories

She seems more the Jelimo type (if she is indeed intersex as many of the rumors indicate that is the reason for her sudden drop off).

Niyonsaba is definitely my favorite of the three intersex 800 runners though.

On July 15 in Monaco, she ran the fastest time of her life, 1:55.33, closely followed by Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba, who also set a personal record and is also believed by some to be a high-T woman.

Runner's World thinks so.

agip wrote:

for the record, this whole niyonsaba thing is silly - she has a feminine voice and, to my eye, face.

wambui and semenya are different stories

I think you are correct here and with Wambui, but since they give no information, there are few facts to go on except conjecture.

If you look at this picture, Melissa doesn't look like a female

http://joliefoulee.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/13.jpg

Blah Blah. wrote:

She is Canadian. As such, she could be fined for making derogatory statements against transgenders.

+1

In what way? She looks very feminine in that picture. She is defined, but not overly muscular, her hips are wider than her chest. Her build is very "female".

USA 800 wrote:

If you look at this picture, Melissa doesn't look like a female

http://joliefoulee.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/13.jpg

USA 800 wrote:

If you look at this picture, Melissa doesn't look like a female

http://joliefoulee.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/13.jpg

worst.analysis.of.a.photo.ever

ruggiero wrote:

USA 800 wrote:

If you look at this picture, Melissa doesn't look like a female

http://joliefoulee.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/13.jpg

worst.analysis.of.a.photo.ever

I believe it was sarcasm

Years back, I was a deckhand on a tramp steamer trading up and down the West African ports and when ashore, we’d sometimes come across these creatures, mainly in bars, who were back then called hermaphrodites.

Anyway, word went round that on of our shipmates had spent a night with one of then, which he vehemently denied.

It was no use, he had the p - mickey taken out of him for the rest of the voyage.

In the mess-room we’d invent imaginative and hilarious (and unprintable) scenarios about what might have gone on in that bedroom.

My point really being that long before PC became fashionable, we had no difficulty distinguishing the difference between them and real females - why on earth do the athletic authorities not see just how crazy it is to allow them to compete on equal terms.

wow Melissa wrote:

ruggiero wrote:

worst.analysis.of.a.photo.ever

I believe it was sarcasm

http://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/full/513155210.jpg

Now that is a woman

treadingLightly wrote:

wow Melissa wrote:

I believe it was sarcasm

http://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/full/513155210.jpg

Now that is a woman

Oh yeah! I'll raise you this