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[RamFan503]

Oh i saw it. A right wing conservative, the only side clinging to this narrative, magazine isn't truth.

Yet w/ the far right is the one still beating the Russian IBA blood test as gospel.

Do NOT continue down this path.

 

[Merlin]

Babylon Bee killin it...

 

[12intheBox]

I believe they do already along with testing for banned substances, etc... I'm not sure why that is a problem. They test for blood doping, for growth hormones, weed, drugs, you name it. How do you suppose they found the Y chromosome? Lucky guess?

Well - reading just about any of the articles that have been posted in this thread - 2 girls were singled out by this Russian boxing agency - an agency that both US Boxing and the Olympic Committee have cut ties with and are suggesting are full of shit on this issue - they are the ones who did this “test”. The did not test all female boxers - nor did anyone else. Although - to be fair - this agency suggests that a second Turkish(?) test is also floating out there that corroborates these results. Still - this is not a test that all female athletes went thru. It is a test that was done on 2 boxers - and a test in which the protocols, testing measures and methodology for have not been exactly transparent.

When a test is done for - say performance enhancing drugs - it doesn’t also just happen to run a full dna spectrum analysis - that would be a completely different test. One that currently is not part of any Olympic screening, pro sports screening, NCAA screening - etc.

There are - by now - a shit load of articles out there on all of this - and as is the case with just about everything - we can all find articles that fit our pre conceived bias if we want to. Having said that - this is one I found to be fairly illuminating

What does science tell us about boxing’s gender row? - BBC News

Research is shedding light on different chromosomal make-ups and what advantages they may bring to sport.

www.bbc.com

 

[Angry Ram]

Do NOT continue down this path.

OK...it was getting hard to ignore the elephant in the room tho.

I'm just about done with this thread anyway. If after what all i provided and referenced ppl still want to believe a certain narrative, no use in wasting any more energy.

 

[RamFan503]

OK...it was getting hard to ignore the elephant in the room tho.

I'm just about done with this thread anyway. If after what all i provided and referenced ppl still want to believe a certain narrative, no use in wasting any more energy.

You mean like with practically anything that can be turned political?

Anyway...moving on. Cheers.

 

[RamFan503]

I think this thread has long passed its expiration date.