olympics
The Olympics haven't protected the ability of trans and intersex athletes to compete, but when it comes to advising media outlets on correct use of pronouns and terminology, they're all over that level of performative, substance-less allyship. #trans #transgender #news #sports #olympics
Alyssa Steinsiek isn't having it. Here's her latest for Assigned:
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/ioc-issues-trans-media-guidelines
#USA #Swimming #therapy #dog retires, named honorary member of the team
The #swimmers requested #TherapyDogs to minimize their #anxiety at the #Olympics.
“So many people find animals as a calming essence,” said Emily Klueh, manager of #MentalHealth & #emotional #wellness for USA Swimming. “athletes are looking for … environments where they can get away from the hype, [where] they can calm their nervous systems down.”
#DogsOfMastodon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/06/20/olympic-trials-swimming-dog-therapy-izzo/
In today's story on @medium, I discuss the decision of U.S. sprinter #NoahLyles to compete while infected with #COVID19.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
high technical marks, but style points deducted for omitting t-rex poses and kangaroo hops
That time Gojira showed up and made me actually care about the Olympics Opening Ceremonies
Blech. Twitter is such a friggin’ cesspool.
I’ve worn a bikini once which was modest as far as bikinis go. Amd that was at my neighborhood pool.
Even then I felt exposed with only half a dozen people there.
I cannot imagine wearing something smaller on the world stage like at the #Olympics and attempt to execute athleticism while pulling a wedgie out of my ass.
https://www.comicsands.com/conservative-olympics-volleyball-bikini-leggings-2668852902.html
It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."
"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.
In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.
Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!
But another nuance caught my attention.
The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.
The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.
Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.
If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.
Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."
Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!
This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.
#Paris2024 #YusufDikec #SevvalTarhan #Olympics
Translated text. Original text from Maya Guseynova
While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.
The latest episode of #WTFrancepodcast is up! In which I use the convenient excuse of “everything is political” to talk a whole lot about the opening ceremony of the #Olympics. Listen here: https://wtfrance.podbean.com/e/the-paris-olympics-and-whose-france-is-it-anyway/
This is a real picture, it has not been altered, just great timing as he launches over the wave
Gabriel Medina, #Brazil, he scored a 9.90, the highest single wave score in Olympics history
then he stood on air in a #photo which is instantly iconic
#surfing #olympics2024 #photography #photograph
Edit: credit to #olympics #photographer Jerome Brouillet
And Story: https://time.com/7005239/olympics-surfing-photo-tahiti-gabriel-medina-jerome-brouillet/
Today I've been thinking about conversation customs, thanks to the teapot storm of "Paris' Olympics' opening ceremony".
It's well-known that anglo-americans are the worst actors in any international setting, as they've least experience on working with people from other cultures.
As such they're more likely to (1.) not context-proof their messages against other interpretations AND (2.) not checking if their interpretation of an event is the one intentended.
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Every year since 2000 I have reliably become a canoe slalom fan for approximately 7 days every four* years, and then forget about it.
Now why is the 2028 event in Oklahoma (famous LA suburb) instead of a medium-length drive away? #Olympics
she was disqualified for a "political" display hidden in her clothing that she revealed in competition
an Afghan #breaker on the #IOC #Refugee Team, residing in #Spain
there are things far more important than an #Olympic #medal
and Manizha chose right
story about her from before her display:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9x8dj81r73o
#olympics #olympics2024 #afghanistan #refugees #women #breaking #breakdancing
Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:
U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:
"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.
The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"
The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.
On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.