Ain't no way Serbia is beating the Professor, Hot Sauce, and the Main Event.
On a serious note, the 3x3 ruleset is ridiculous. Whoever invented the rules has never played basketball lol.
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Ain't no way Serbia is beating the Professor, Hot Sauce, and the Main Event.
On a serious note, the 3x3 ruleset is ridiculous. Whoever invented the rules has never played basketball lol.
Quick question.
Why didn’t the US field a team of NBA players for the 3 on 3 basketball competiton?
I mean just put in Brunson, Jalen Brown, and Jaren Jackson III and that’s a guaranteed Gold medal.
Why didn’t the US field a team of NBA players for the 3 on 3 basketball competiton?
I mean just put in Brunson, Jalen Brown, and Jaren Jackson III and that’s a guaranteed Gold medal.
You have to play in enough 3x3 events throughout the year to be eligible to play in the olympics. From what I understand most of these events occur during the NBA season (and everyone else's season), so most players cannot compete.
Love watching Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong-American Olympian.
I dated a Hmong girl once, she was so nice.
I dated a Hmong girl once, she was so nice.
"dated"
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I've seen him in LA making a video with his school bus with a hoop on it or whatever it is. It was interesting to see how often he actually got taken to the hoop. He's very selective about what goes in his videos, of course. But is was entertaining. I think when I saw him he was practicing new moves because he was losing the ball left and right. But man, when he hit those moves, it was way better in person. We need and1 in the Olympics. That'd be awesome.
Anyone else miss the Russians in these Olympics like I do?
They’re so majestic.
They’re so majestic.
Some US basketball team out here watching Biles as she wins Gold.
That’s a 2.5 hour drive between Lyon and Paris.
Well worth it though, her floor routine’s a sight to behold.
That’s a 2.5 hour drive between Lyon and Paris.
Well worth it though, her floor routine’s a sight to behold.
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Yeah, my bad, I just educated myself more and was about to correct my earlier post, as I learned she is biologically intersex, just like Caster Semenya on track and field.
This is such a tough topic, but something that world of sports just have to start dealing with better. The variety between all kinds of Testo levels or red cell levels between both xx, xy genders and everything in between also varies quite much. I know intersex lady that plays in lower division soccer league and no one would know about her more rare combination of chromosomes. There has probably been in history both great athletes that are biologically women but having abnormally high levels of something that helps them, and also intersex people,hermafrodites etc. As we know now more about these things, the first people they're doing closer tests about are the ones having some physical traits that reminds people of masculine.
Would be an interesting hypothetical case if we'd have biologically woman that is measured for example, nanomole levels in testosterone higher than the rules state (In athletics, IAAF have it on 2,5 nanomoles per litre, who's is rare but possible for biologically women to exceed) - would she be closed down aso g she goes through same kind of medication that intersex athletes have forced to forgot, to continue competing...
As of now, per wikipedia,this how IAAF operates:
"The first version of the rules applied to all women with high testosterone, but the current version of the rules only apply to athletes with certain XY disorders of sexual development, and set a 5 nmol/L testosterone limit, which applies only to distances between 400 m and 1 mile (inclusive)"
So basically, they are only regularly testing some things only for intersex person's, so in theory, women with the usual xx chromosomes gets better treatment only based by the likelihood of them not ever exceeding the levels. Although it's rare and usually bc of so e health condition issue,it's not beyond d possible what I understand.
The reason I decided to look up into this is how they do t still offer any options. You either have to go through possible painful medication (before finding right kind of medication to lower the levels, body might react pretty heavily), or forget competitive sports for good.
The other reason is that there is some adult athletes like Semenya or Mboma (200m silver medalist from Tokyo), that have first been under certain rules and max. levels from IAAF, who then have quite abrudtly lowered the levels leaving a little time to fix again the medication they'd have no use for anything else than be eligible to take part on competitions. No financial compensations usually given, no any real work put into find ways if there could be more disciplines beside men's and women's competitions.
I don't know definite and simple solution, but it's certain that both some biologically female athletes might be in disadvantage while the whole intersex (and trans) communities take hits bc these women just want to compete. The issue is even more complex with intersex competitors than athletes that have gone on HRT Ang gender reassigment in their adulthood (they most always have a clear upper hand in several sports, especially marshall arts, weightlifting and anything where body proportions and socializing to compete with boys in their childhood and teens have given the upper hand for mostly cis women's competitions)
TL;DR Associations and Olympic committee have to come up with more solutions and work hard on it. So far,the general public sympathy has mostly gone for xx chromosomes women, and many times understandably. But many times the discourses forget what some of differing athletes have to go through with, when different sports leaders and shooting dice to decide this and that then onceore. In the end, now all counterparts suffer less or more
Step-Back Lauri
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I don't understand anything about gymnastics but every Olympics Simone Biles makes it great. That's a true mark of being generational talent! Once again, great stuff!
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