Carlton Supporters Club

Basketball shouldn't be an Olympic sport anyway.

Over the years too many glory towners have joined.

Soccer, tennis, golf.  No one gives a crap about an Olympic medal in these sports.  It's not the pinnacle and it's just more games for everyone to play.

It's a deadset pisstake.  If the Olympics isn't at the pinnacle of the sport you compete in, that sport shouldn't be played there IMHO.

I like the idea of breakfasting as an Olympic sport - is it judged or raced?  Fastest to make and eat quinoa porridge and not throw up?

Doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in the Olympics in general this time around
I was going to start a separate thread as there are a few controversial things getting a bit of attention. (super swims??? and Boxing shenanigans)
And with the main event kicking off now (Athletics)   ...
Do we need to do that or just let this become a more generic thread?
Is there the interest?
Problem may be that most of the  posts have been about basketball so I'll leave it to DJC (as the thread starter) to decide whether we need a separate thread for other Olympic topics.

I can't wait until it's finished.  I have never been so disinterested in an Olympics. 

Not even sure why, just couldn't get into it.

A woman getting knocked out by a not so female woman is just yet another background story here.

Doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in the Olympics in general this time around
I was going to start a separate thread as there are a few controversial things getting a bit of attention. (super swims??? and Boxing shenanigans)
And with the main event kicking off now (Athletics)   ...
Do we need to do that or just let this become a more generic thread?
Is there the interest?
Problem may be that most of the  posts have been about basketball so I'll leave it to DJC (as the thread starter) to decide whether we need a separate thread for other Olympic topics.

A woman getting knocked out by a not so female woman is just yet another background story here.

This one is definitely controversial but it may not be as straight foward as it seems.

From what I've read so far, it is a case of a female athlete possessing an XY chromosome (which is a maker for a male) but for all other purposes this person has lived their life as a female with basically female anatomy.
She hasn't transitioned.
That may change as more information is known.

Now going to the sports psychology of the incident.
If you go into a contest believing that your opponent has an unfair advantage it would mess with your head.
You're as good as beaten.
Early aspects of the fight may have reinforced that idea in the Italian fighter's head.
"She punched harder than I've ever been punched before"...that may have been real.
Or it may have been an impression, justifying the already pre-conceived idea that this was an opponent with advantages 'above and beyond'.
I sympathise with Carini because for her it is 'real' and she is distraught that after years of training she couldn't continue... that's one of the complexities of competition at this level

That's speculative, it's a what might have happened.
I think we need to know more before we make a judgement.

This one is definitely controversial but it may not be as straight foward as it seems.

From what I've read so far, it is a case of a female athlete possessing an XY chromosome (which is a maker for a male) but for all other purposes this person has lived their life as a female with basically female anatomy.
She hasn't transitioned.
That may change as more information is known.

Now going to the sports psychology of the incident.
If you go into a contest believing that your opponent has an unfair advantage it would mess with your head.
You're as good as beaten.
Early aspects of the fight may have reinforced that idea in the Italian fighter's head.
"She punched harder than I've ever been punched before"...that may have been real.
Or it may have been an impression, justifying the already pre-conceived idea that this was an opponent with advantages 'above and beyond'.
I sympathise with Carini because for her it is 'real' and she is distraught that after years of training she couldn't continue... that's one of the complexities of competition at this level

That's speculative, it's a what might have happened.
I think we need to know more before we make a judgement.

I had no idea that so many on social media are chromosome and gender experts. I guess it's not surprising, because they are also inflation experts, infectious disease experts, foreign policy experts, French performance art experts, military experts, political experts......