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Making A Mockery Of The Olympics

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The Olympics have gone farther over the top–it has allowed a biological male to compete against women in boxing. The Daily Caller posted an article about the match.

The article reports:

A two-time Olympic gold medalist in women’s boxing called a Thursday Olympic boxing match between a biological male from Algeria and a female Italian boxer “scary.”

Angela Carini ended the match against Imane Khelif after 46 seconds following a series of hard blows to the head that left the Italian boxer with a broken nose. Claressa Shields, who won gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, said on “America’s Newsroom” that the Olympic committees “dropped the ball.”

“I couldn’t imagine getting inside the ring with a biological man,” Shields told “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “Even though I sparred against a man, but fighting for the Olympics is way bigger than that and so much more on the line to have to go with a opposite gender. Women fight against women and men fight against men, so, I don’t see how the Olympics could have done something like this.”

You used to be put in jail for beating a woman. Now it’s an Olympic sport. I don’t think this is a good image to show either your son or your daughter.

The article concludes:

“Listen, I don’t have anything against transgender women or transgender men,” Shields said. “All I’m saying is men should fight against men, women should fight against women and transgenders should fight against transgenders. That is how I fell, I will stand with that. I’m not homophobic or anything like that or against the gay community, but that’s not right.”

Remember way back when there was a concern about the East German women weightlifters? I guess that wouldn’t be a problem today!

I Guess It Depends On Your Definition Of Alternative Lifestyle

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Breitbart.com posted an article today about NBC’s profile of young Olympian gold medal skier David Wise. David Wise is 23 years old. After stating that what led Wise to Olympic gold was his “alternative lifestyle,” NBC describes him as follows:

At such a young age, Wise has the lifestyle of an adult. He wears a Baby Bjorn baby carrier around the house. He also attends church regularly and says he could see himself becoming a pastor a little later down the road.

Not exactly the picture you had in mind while watching him nail two double corks wearing baggy pants. Wise is, well, wise. He knows where his head should be at all time, focused on being the best father and husband he can be.

This man has chosen to be a grown-up at an age when many of his peers are still acting as if they are in junior high. It is amazing to me that NBC considers a 23-year old assuming the responsibilities of adulthood as an ‘alternative lifestyle.” Maybe that says something about the maturity level at NBC.

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Sometimes Things Happen That Restore My Faith In Humanity

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Oddly enough, the article that has (at least temporarily) restored my faith in humanity was posted at the Huffington Post. The article reports on two things that happened at the Olympic Games that made me smile.

Fabien Gilot, a member of the French freestyle relay team (swimming), after the team won the gold, raised his arm to reveal a tattoo. The tattoo was in Hebrew:
אני כלום בלעדיהם, meaning “I am nothing without them.” The swimmer stated that it was a tribute to his grandfather, Max Goldschmidt, an Auschwitz survivor, who died earlier this year.

The article also reports:

This is not the only moving tribute to a Jewish figure at this year’s Olympic Games in London. The same day that Gilot revealed his Hebrew tattoo, the Italian delegation to the Olympics held a minute of silence with the Israeli team to commemorate the 11 victims of the 1972 Munich massacre.

Sometimes, when organizations do the wrong thing, people do the right thing.

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