I remember the good old days when the Olympics actually had rules. People were disqualified for cheating.
Well, being a transgender – being a man competing in a woman’s Olympic event – is CHEATING.
But the Olympics committee doesn’t care because they are WOKE.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard couldn’t be happier.
This man, who identifies as a woman, will be the first “openly transgender athlete [1]” to compete at the Olympics and he/she will obviously have a huge advantage – he/she has more testosterone in his/her body and better muscle strength. The testosterone allowed by the Olympic committee is still five times more than a biological woman.
I.E. cheating.
Hubbard is obviously expected to win, but win or lose, it will allow him/her to become an instant celebrity, write books, go on the talk show circuit. It’ll be a great new lucrative world for him/her.
Hubbard has won a silver medal in the 2017 World Championships and gold in the 2019 Pacific Games. As a man. Lifting 628 lbs. to qualify for the games, he/she ranked 4th out of 14 qualifiers and is ranked 16th in the world.
So what are the odds that his/her female competitors have any shot whatsoever at beating Hubbard?
They aren’t good.
The female competitors aren’t too happy about the situation [2]. Anna Vanbellinghen, a weightlifter who will probably compete against Hubbard says the whole thing is unfair and is “like a bad joke.”
Cheating seems to be pretty big in Olympic weightlifting over the years to begin with.
If you look at medals that have been stripped from Olympians [3], weightlifting is right at the top with 50 total medals taken away from them for various offenses
Laughably, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) says on their website [4] that they are committed to the integrity of sport.
Yeah right.