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She's from Algeria.

Surely because those levels are naturally occurring and would take 'medical' intervention to change. Rather than having been created through 'medical' intervention. While I think it's two different situations, it doesn't necessarily mean I think she should be allowed to compete. I honestly don't...

This reads to me as confirmation that she, as a woman, has a very significant advantage over other women as a result of a specific 'disorder'. So it's a (very difficult) question of ensuring fairness, and safety. It is NOT a question of 'is she a man or a woman', which some people seem to be...

Who could ever have predicted that?

Human beings don't always fit neatly into simple binary categories. Some of us think this diversity and complexity is part of what makes us amazing. Others just can't seem to cope with the idea. As per the extracts from the twitter thread that ends with the line 'but they are male'. Are they...

I dunno, not sure it reflects very well on society when the best support we can offer young men in danger of going astray is 'fight each other for our entertainment'. Seems a bit hunger games to me. Must be better ways to solve urban deprivation that doesn't involve brain damage. Surely? Reckon...

Perhaps the more fundamental problem here is the 'sport' of boxing. Where two people actively attempt to inflict physical harm on each other? Humans are wonderfully varied and complex. Some are born with certain advantages, some are not. Not freakishly tall? Dont bother dreaming about making...

I think Wilde blew up in the last km, Yee realised it, then absolutely buried himself to catch him

Terrible tv coverage. Astounding running. I've rarely seen athletes so physically destroyed at the end of a race.

At least one world record will.be set this morning. For the greatest number of people making effectively the same joke at the same time: 'Swim in that? They must be inseine.'

Started to go mainstream 4 or 5 years ago as far as i can tell. Surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing, the other one where you hang on to a hybrid wing/sail thing...even sailing. All 'flying' on hydrofoils. Get used to it, it's definitely the future! Wouldn't be surprised to see kayaks zipping...

Watching the gymnastics. Not sure what I think of it as a 'sport' but definitely an astonishing demonstration of what the human body is capable of. Pretty sure I heard one of the commentators say that a move 'isn't as easy as it looks'. What? I genuinely don't think it would be possible for ANY...

When your slightly dodgy uncle says something like this at a family gathering (thinking he's being hilarious), it's worthy of some quietly raised eyebrows, perhaps an audible sigh and a short period of embarassed silence. When a highly paid professional commentator says this while at work...

'Does not so much fly down the wing, as plommet'

It may be. Or it may not be. 'Tax evasion' is when the activity has been examined and found to be definitely unawful. My understanding is that there is no one, agreed definition of 'tax avoidance' but the general consenus seems to be that it is where the activity is clearly not within the...

Indeed, it was hard to know weather or not he would ever come good. Blew hot and cold while he was with us.

Napoleon's quote about preferring lucky generals to good ones springs to mind. Apparently he didn't actually say it, but the FA were still taking notes I reckon.

You reckon? I suspect the key difference is that people likely to vote for Trump just don't care as much about his...errmmm...'personal failings' compared to those considering voting for Biden. And I think they may be right. I'm not convinced that the individual President matters so much as...

If the left alliance can hold (and it's a big if) then I suspect Macron is toast come the Presidential elections. He's hugely unpopular and the main outcome here is a strengthened left, not a strengthened centre right. That said, the finer details of French politics is a mystery to me, so who...

Nope. US gets worse outcomes for a health system that costs almost 50% as much as in UK. US health outcomes are comparable with Cuba, which has a health system costing just a fraction. There are plenty of very obvious reasons why this is the case. Not least that a system driven by profit is...