hypochondriac

Many people work for themselves so can toss off as much as they want.

Who was it saying how great it was to just have calm without hearing about politics and dramas? That didn't last long...

Away kit is the only one I quite like.

Great idea to copy the tactics of one of the worst governments in living memory.

Had a gander at Blackmores tweets today. Quite I terestong I thought and clearly has sources in the club. Seemed fairly certain that Alcaraz, ABK and KWP would be off and also wrote about o'riley that suggested to me that we have a big chance of nabbing him.

It's perfectly plausible that a biological male with xy chromosomes but a dsd born in a conservative country is observed as female at birth due to ambiguous genitilia. A man with xy chromosomes, no proof of full female genitalia is biologically male, even if they've lived their entire life presenting and believing they are female. That doesn't mean they should be discriminated against, but it does mean they shouldn't compete against biological females in sport. If a boxer failed a drug test and then didn't appeal the ban, would you ask for proof that they'd taken drugs? The failed test and lack of appeal speaks for itself.

Oh my god. He genuinely is that thick. Here I've substituted a word in my paragraph so it may penetrate your skull: I was aware they wouldn't be allowed to be black in their country but had no idea what religion they were. Not everyone from Algeria is a Muslim. Irrelevant anyway as they aren't black. I was aware they wouldn't be allowed to be a black in their country but had no idea what religion they were. Not everyone from Algeria is a Muslim. Irrelevant anyway as they aren't a black.

Plus getting egg on face with comments about the likes of Huw Edwards before throwing that particular comment down the memory hole...

Depressingly I think this is accurate.

Nope. Already said it's not my opinion that makes him a man. And it's nothing to do with gender it's biological sex.

No you cretin you said "a trans". How can you still not grasp the difference?

Only a no brainer if those are the two options.

The latter.

Think I'll keep a running tally of how many times you mention the tories in response to a post about labour. You can't keep this up for five years surely?

Good post though I don't agree with all of it. Essentially what it comes down to is if these athletes have XY chromosomes or not. They've had plenty of opportunities to disprove this and haven't done so. Hopefully they will clarify it one way or the other as soon as possible. If they are in fact xx then I'd be suing the arse off any figure in boxing who has claimed otherwise. Regarding your final point, I read yesterday about an athlete from another sport who withdrew after finding out they had DSD because they realised the advantage it gave them wouldn't make competition safe or fair though I can see the logic in saying you've met the criteria so are entitled to compete. It must be a pai full reality to confront.

How do you figure that? Firstly that isn't true and secondly what difference does banning Russians make?

The athletes are not at fault, other than when finding out they are biologically men and have a competitive advantage they should be withdrawing from competition. I can't remember the details but I believe there were two separate tests by separate bodies at different times that delivered the same result. Maybe we will get more information at the presentation tomorrow.

And there is the key point. What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without it. The irony of you droning on and on to provide evidence that I have already provided when you suggest you can just state something that is inaccurate and claim you don't need any evidence for that false assertion. You use the same logic as the ioc. "She" has F on the passport so she is a woman. Unfortunately for you it's more complicated than what which is why this is becoming something of a scandal. No evidence for female genitalia either...

Thanks. So I haven't seen any challenge yet to the validity of the results (two separate tests with the same result) it's the process that they have a problem with. If it is just the process the one is it doesn't change the results. Maybe best to do the test for a third time.

You have no evidence this individual has Swyer syndrome and even if they did they would still be biologically male.

IBA news conference set for Monday with supposedly detailed explanations for their disqualifications. Should be interesting. Are the IOC disputing the process? Or the finding it self do you know?

Khelif beat Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng and was set to compete against China's Yang Liu for gold in the Welterweight category. Lin beat Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva for bronze in the Featherweight category. They were scheduled to fight no Russian boxers in either one of their categories, and only one Russian boxer won a gold medal in the entire championship (Anastasiia Demurchian, Light Middleweight). India won the most gold medals (4) at the 2023 Women's Championship. China won the most medals overall (7). Kazakhstan won the second most medals overall (6). Russia only won 3 medals at the championship. Disqualifying Khelif wouldn’t have advanced the Russian boxer to a favourable position. Further, multiple other boxers very easily beat Russian opponents and advanced to win gold without any such problems. Such as Morocco’s Khadija El-Mardi in the heavyweight, who directly beat Russia’s Diana Pyatak for a spot in the gold match that she would ultimately win. Other Russian boxers were left in the dust in other categories where they didn’t even end up placing at all. Yet no other boxers were “punished” for directly beating these Russian competitors. It also doesn’t mesh for Lin Yu-Ting, who never matched against a single Russian boxer. Also worth noting that another Taiwanese boxer, Huang Hsiao-wen, won gold in the Bantamweight category. So no discrimination against Taiwan there. Explain the disqualification of Lin, who never boxed a Russian a single time. Once you’re done explaining that, explain the unchallenged victory of the other boxers at the WWBC who beat Russian boxers, including for major critical medal positions, and were not disqualified.

Any amount of money we ask for kwp doesn't make him shit.

Fridays off and on holiday a few weeks in. Not bad.

"Alan Abrahamson, an award winning sportswriter and previous columnist for NBC Sports says that he has seen the tests and letter in which the IBA concluded that the boxer, Imane Khelif has DNA which is that “of a male consisting of XY chromosomes.” “The New Delhi lab reports for both Khelif and Lin say the same thing: Result Summary: “Abnormal” Interpretation: “Chromosomal analysis reveals Male karyotype.”