runnerdave wrote:
Just wondering - has anybody ever heard of a girl/woman > boy/man competing in a male athletic event?
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Quietly Updates Policy to Bar Males from Women's Competition
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Cue the Niki Hiltz meltdown.
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Anon12345677 wrote:
Posting anon because I work in the USOPC world.
This decision is causing quite the stir. My opinion is that the policy change is the correct one, but I am not a fan of the way it was done. I also do not think the Trump folks really did a lot of reasoning on this and that the impetus is more out of being anti-trans than a reasoned argument on why.
If Joe Biden had issued an executive order demanding trans athletes be allowed to compete at all levels of sport, there would have been an uproar from the people celebrating this.
Decisions about eligibility should be made by sports' governing bodies based on what is best for their sport, not government officials playing politics.
This change is mostly in line with what most organizations who are actually under the USOPC's umbrella were already doing. This has no direct bearing on high school sports, or any youth sports that are not run by an NGB.
But this opens the door for more political interference down the road in ways that could be more disruptive to how we select our Olympic teams and run NGBs like USATF.
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Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
runnerdave wrote:
Just wondering - has anybody ever heard of a girl/woman > boy/man competing in a male athletic event?
Thanks. I had no idea.
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So, the new president of the IOC said that she would protect women's sports but is going to hide behind Trump to do it.
Sigh.
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