sad update, post-recording: the olympics committee awarded ana bărbosu her bronze medal yesterday, officially knocking jordan out of the place she earned. this is what ana said: "I can't help but think about Sabrina and Jordan right now. It's a difficult situation for us, with so many uncertainties and overwhelming emotions. I hope everyone understands that we have not done anything wrong at the Olympics. And that the Olympic spirit is more important than any misunderstanding between the authorities. I want to believe that the day will come when all three of us will receive a bronze medal.” i respect her statement so much, and she's absolutely right. it's an absolute shame that the athletes involved have been a thousand times more professional than the international olympic committee. they deserve better!
That Dutch guy actually boils my blood. Like he calls it the biggest mistake of his life, but it’s not a mistake. A mistake is not grooming a child, planning to do international travel to meet them, giving said child alcohol, taking advantage of her, taking her to a second location and taking advantage of her again. When there are that many opportunities to reconsider it is not a mistake, it’s a character flaw. I am beyond disappointed that he was put in front of the world as a hero at an event where people the same age as the child he hurt compete.
Exactly.. plus the judge stating part of his punishment is not achieving his dreams of competing on high levels. And he did, at the olympics. Someone on a sex offenders register in one country (especially in EU) should be kept away from children in ALL countries.
I will never get over the fact that there was a LITERAL CHILD R@PIST in the Olympics this year and people decided to stir up a fake trans panic instead. It's genuinely ridiculous.
It says everything about the homophobes and transphobes who love to talk about protecting children. When the predators are straight and cis and white (which is most of the time), suddenly they don't care.
I'm not too sure where the idea that people didn't hate him competing came from in relation to the various other issues. There was nothing but absolute unanimous scorn for his country and team for the entire duration. While competing he was booed by the entire stadium, who then cheered when he was knocked out in the first round. Nobody was defending this guy, deservedly, and hopefully he never returns to the world stage or set foot near a child again
@@Splexsychiick No. It wouldn't! This is not an "everybody is a winner" competition. There is ONE medal to be handed out (or there is a tie, which in gymnastics does not really happen). The decision could be so easily misused for other, upcoming, editions of the Olympic Games. The rules of each competitions are made by Federations (FIG, FIVB, FIVA etc) and the IOC is an over-governing body that sets the framework & ensures organisation. But I do agree: the decision regarding the number of medals is jurisprudence of the IOC.
@@mihaidumitrescu1325 Not only have Olympic medals been shared before in the past, but it definitely has happened in gymnastics. Even just looking at recent olympics, there was a tie just this year in Paris for Bronze in the men's horizontal bar. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, there was also a tie for Bronze in the women's floor event-which is wild because that's the exact event and medal placement this dispute is over. Sure, getting a tie in gymnastics "doesn't really happen" as much since the scoring system changed in 2006, but the fact is, it CAN STILL happen. Add to the fact that this time there was a bunch of "You won the medal!!... Oh wait no you didn't.... HAHA just kidding yes you did!!" .... yeah not a good look and why people are incredibly upset by this outcome.
@@xSHOUTforAlthea when you say people are upset you mean americans specifically are upset, not people in general. Anyone outside the US that whatched the competition got actually confused when Jordan got this place instead of the romenian athletes. So, for us, it was justice being served and we are mostly happy for Romênia🤷🏻♀️ Don't get me wrong, Jordan is AMAZING she did nothing wrong at all but others were better and in my opinion if they let her have the medal it would much worse for her bc they'd be basically saying "hey we messed up and now we noticed that you were not actually third best buut no worries we will let you keep the medal so you won't feel sad y'know". And, sincerely, every single human outside of the USA is so damn tired of watching your country winning without deserving it
@@mihaidumitrescu1325 .....duel winners are allowed. I never implied that it's an "everybody winner" I said what I said. Don't push other things on my statement and opinion. Yes there are rules and the judges messed up multiple times and mismanaged the situation. Thus I dont think the contestant should be penalized.
The craziest part about the gymnastics bronze medal is that the olympics has literally had people share a medal in the past. It wouldn't even be a new thing they haven't done. The fact that they are not having the olympians share the bronze at the very least is insane.
Actually during this Olympics two men shared a bronze in high bar, Zhang Boheng and Tang Chia-hung. BUT this is only because they had identical SV and identical execution. Typically in a tie, the person with the higher E score wins but since theirs were identical, they were able to share. Probably the reason FIG denied sharing the medals, even though they screwed up, is because the scores weren’t actually tied.
@@piratesswoop725 Yeah I know it's usually due to tied scores but there's been at least one case where two teams shared an Olympic gold because of controversy over judging. In the winter 2002 Olympics, the original silver-medalists for pair figure skating Jamie Salè and David Pelleti were upgraded to gold, sharing with the original gold medalists Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. This was changed because an investigation revealed one of the judges allegedly was going to vote for the gold medalists regardless of their performance. So it's not entirely unheard of even without tied scores.
I think i read somewhere ( but i don’t remember where) that Romania submitted the request originally that all three ladies share the bronze as it was a judging error and not an error of the athletes and honestly that would have been the right move in my opinion
The winner should win the medal. You work your ass off your whole life for this to be sharing your spotlight. And this is the only time I say something like this. I don’t even care if people wear white to my wedding or petty things like that. Sabrina deserved the medal it should have been an easy choice. But like always the judges support the U.S. and thought they would get away with it again unfortunately this one was easy to see that Jordan didn’t win so they had to retract. If you watch the Olympics you know the judges typically give the U.S. better scores in certain sports and underscore other countries the U.S. has issues with.
Ironically, women's boxing did have a trans player this year. We sent a trans male boxer to represent the Philippines. He competed in the women's division because he doesn't take testosterone & hasn't undergone HRT. Edit: his name is Hergie Bacyadan!!
I watched the olympics closing ceremony in a fan zone in my city which has a huge algerian population, and everyone was cheering for Imane when she was on screen. It made me feel so much better after seeing the horrible comments online these past few weeks, I felt like crying.. I HOPE she gets a lot of money from this, I can’t imagine what she's been going through. She won a gold medal and can’t even enjoy the moment because of these hateful people.
I saw an interview with Imane talking about how deeply it affected her, so much so she had to get professional help to get her out of the spiral she was in😢I hope she can get justice for what was done to her, and finally get to celebrate her well deserved gold medal
@@capital_L283 Seriously, I hope it shuts up Rowling and Musk bad. Both really need to be put in their place for being the monsters that they are. I'm mostly afraid this is not going away. The conspiracy theorists after all will say that the controversy and the way the IOC backed her up is the sign of "people finding out about the truth and getting to close to it, so they put on a show".
I think we also need to discuss more that being trans is literally ILLEGAL in Algeria, and that by publicly accusing Imane of being trans, they are risking her life and status in her home country. When she is literally A CIS WOMAN
So if she was trans it would be okay? I'm not sure what your "when she is literally a CIS woman" comment could be implying, because it seems like the only possible explanation is that you're saying that it would be "better" if she was a trans woman...
@@kezia8027I think part of the whole point of highlighting the fact that Imane is from Algeria is that her life is at risk in her home country if ANYONE believes anything that those idiots are spouting.
@@kezia8027im not sure how you even got all of that from their very straight forward comment. Imane isn't trans. Being trans is illegal in Algeria. Accusing her of being trans puts her life at risk. How is that hard to understand? Delusional asf😂
Their excuse is that he was punished, punished ? Jail isn't punishment over r4pe and p3dophilia ,crazy , a man can comeback from that but amber heard can't over just lies
@@p0epk1p41right. It’s outrageous that upon Britain transferring him back to the Netherlands to complete his sentence they just released him because they don’t consider what he did a crime. And I consider 4 years too lenient!
i would say their assumptions that she was trans are also xenophobic (assuming a person is AMB simply because their features aren’t “typical feminine” features, which, let’s be real, means “eurocentric beauty standards” and also misogynistic (ms. JOANNE) for assuming a woman is not a woman because she doesn’t look like your (*cough* white *cough*) standards for what a woman should look like. awful in every way
I love how some people complain about beauty standards, then scream “MAN” at the first badass woman they see being a total badass, simply bc she’s not hyperfeminine. Ridiculous and offensive. Just an excuse for transphobes to spread their hate and transphobia.
It's funny, too, since as a lesbian, I think Imane is hot as fuck-all the more because of her badassery! Fuck these trans-exclusionary radicals, they're so far from actual feminism, it's not even funny.
I agree with your overall point, but I have to say that I don't think the people calling out harmful "beauty" standards are the same people who think Imane is trans.
Thinking Algeria would support a transperson representing them its INSANE. Nvrmd the fact they put her life , her family and her entire team's in serious danger. SHE HITS Too Hard is the most insane excuse to dip out ever.
That is stupidest thing I had heard on all videos in support of Imane Khalif. Please find me a way how a normal male presenting cis male could somehow enthrall the olympic to let him compete in women league? Even if there is a country desperate enough for a medal and rich enough to bribe, they will still try their best to disguise the "male" to at least appear as close as female as possible (i.e look like a trans female) because the last they wanted was to be outed during the event. @@Devi_Seona
Just wanted to point a few things out that D’angelo missed in this video. One of the reasons Imane’s opponent dipped so quickly was because her father had died recently before and she was still recovering from that. she herself has said that she feels sorry for Imane and doesn’t believe she deserves any of this. “The last supper “ was actually the feast of Dionysus which is part of Greek mythology and sort of the bases of the last supper.
I personally heard that the Italian athlete had a meeting with the far right party leader and she plans to go in to the politics. If she is sorry she did make a big deal for one punch.
@@anna.owo. Extreme-right politicans and lying, being deceitful and capable of doing 180's whenever it suits the grift is nothing new unfortunately... I would not trust her to much on her supposed apologies honestly. And that's coming from a Dutch person that is now dealing with a bunch of unapologetic fascists, racists and transphobes for politicians now making up our cabinet of government, and a majority of the same parties making up the House of Representatives. A former lawyer who went transphobic in 2023 (After already derailing towards extreme-right territory) confessed in a personal response to me in which I asked her for an explanation on her transphobic bullshit that "transpeople should be able to seek quick and good healthcare". Not a year later she voted in favor of a transphobic motion meant to curtail that care and ban it (not using that much words, we are seeing the same fascist playbook being used here, start slow so people are like "But they are just asking questions, what's the harm in that?"), and also voted against a self-ID law proposal requesting to be banned before having made it through first term, by voting for a motion brought in by a different party. Extreme-right politicians are fuckwhits, they never mean a word they say. They always need an enemy, to blame for all the things they can't fix, won't fix, and never will fix, because it will bring down the enemy they created for it. And inevitably, will show this enemy to not hold the power they continuously stated it held.
I have no sympathy for the Italian, she was paid $50,000 by the very people that kept claiming Imane’s a man. They have known each other since they were children, so she knows Imane is a woman. Nothing about her dad passing is related to this whatsoever.
@@Lemoncakelover678 having known an lived France for about a decade now, I believe it was a direct attack on Christianity. You have no idea how much thrill the media here gets from poking at religion. You can see this for yourself by watching French TV presenters interpret for those speaking at the podium and paying attention to their choice of words whenever someone mentions 'God' or 'Jesus.' They presented the culture to you as directly as possible.
Honestly, the saddest situation this year was of Vinesh Phogat's. She wasn't allowed to compete in finals because she was 100gm overweight and it was so devastating. She had been protesting about Wrestlers being sexually assaulted in India, and these wrestlers were attacked by the law enforcement, humiliated, and victim blamed. It is just so sad to see her victory being taken away from her.
Yup, Vinesh can't catch a break. Was really rooting for her to win because she deserved it after the mental torture she had to endure during the wrestlers protest against abuse and institutional corruption. Her performance was a massive achievement in the face of adversity. I really wish they had awarded her the silver instead of disqualifying her. The rules are awfully unfair.
Yeah, not only was she only 100g off, but she was forced into a lower weight class just to punish her for daring to speak up about the sexual harassment. While I've personally never cared too much about the Olympics, I find this one a particularly disgraceful one. Or maybe ppl are just scrutinizing this one more than previous Olympic games
Our country is not corrupt at all. No one has ever been reprimanded in anyway for speaking out against the actions of governing bodies. No one has ever been arrested for speaking out the government. BJP definitely aren't fascists as they aren't doing anything like this. Oh wait....
@@vespernight4236unpopular opinion it wasn't to punish her. Saying so is like blaming others rather than the competitor. Her weight would have been her own fault....unless someone sabatoraged her diet (like in mean girl). She control's her weight. Thats her and her team/dietition/trainer responsibiliy. This happens to people in sports that depend on weight class all the time. She isnt the first and she wont be the last something like this happens too. It's a risky gamble. Some people go on severe weight loss before events and others do extreme bulking. Accidents happen. Maybe her cortisol was high which caused her to gain the extra 100 gram such is life. Rules are rules.
the imane khelif thing is crazy on *so many* levels but also imagine calling yourself a feminist yet insisting that hold on, a woman couldn't possibly achieve this !!! only a MAN could ever be this strong !!!
I'm not sure what wave of feminism they're operating on, but I have the feeling it is the stupidest wave of feminism. The one that comes with a side order of racism against anyone darker than the driven snow.
Yup. "I'm a feminist - not one of those pigs who think women have to all look like 1950s barbies - but THAT WOMAN HAS A SQUARE JAWLINE!!! REEEEE!" Like... yeah, so does Glenn Close. Since when did feminists start image-policing like that?
@@justsomeguy898You nailed it, especially terfs. A lot of theie arguments narrow down to "women are inherently weaker, dumber, less capable and a woman could never even come close to being as good as a man."
Bullying is never justifies but I also think it’s important to mention there’s no governing body over break dancing in Australia! Ray and her husband helped quickly throw together a break dancing panel of judges. Ray Gunn was not only a part of creating this committee, her husband was one of the judges! Many Australian breakdancers couldn’t travel last minute or didn’t even know about it. When you see the people who even were informed that she beat to get to the Olympics it’s tragically clear that dancers in Australia were ROBBED, which is not cool obvi
Yeah. At first I saw it and laughed. It's interpretive dance, not really what you would expect of break dancing and not the best stage for it. Then I saw a bunch of Australians pointing out that she's not the best break dancer in their country and that how she was decided to be the representative was rigged. Like, it was so important for her to make this statement that she robbed someone else of their chance at the Olympics. I can't get behind that
Can we please talk about how they DESTROYED coral reefs in Tahiti for the surfing ?? We can NEVER get those back. We destroyed vital pieces of nature for NOTHING.
the people who say Imane Khelif is a man for simply not looking hyper feminine enough when COMPETING AT A SPORT are the same people who will turn around and criticize the black women who wear full long acrylic nails and makeup while running like Sha’Carri Richardson.
@@Shoulderpads-mcgeeit's just misogyny, whatever women do is wrong in every aspect as simple as a woman being confident in her looks=arrogant and woman being humble about her looks=nerd ,weird and insecure, women can't just exist 😢
This is exactly why that whole issue is not just about transphobia, it's about sexism and racism which a lot of people fail to look at. We can say that those 3 are linked too. They probably thought "what? Imane can punch her opponents very strongly? Must be because "he" is a "man"". And I remember seeing a video by one of my favourite creators who said the reason why JoKe Rowling said that Dumbledore is gay was probably because she was mistaking his black/brown girlfriend to be a man lol. Like someone tweeted, Rowling is probably one drink away from saying that only white women are allowed to be true women 😂
imane khelif isn't trans but she was born biologically male. it takes a two-second google search to confirm that her chromosome testing came back as XY-male. since she was born in algeria you can tell she's definitely NOT trans because they're very strict about that over there, but she's most likely intersex and presented as female at birth. either way, she clearly has an unfair biological advantage. cuz she's basically a man competing in women's sports. i mean one look is all it takes to realize that it has nothing to do with being feminine or masculine, if you're a man you're a fucking man. and if you're a woman you're a woman. period.
4:47 Didn’t Elon Musk mess with Twitter’s algorithm to make sure that his tweets always got seen? Some of those viewers might have viewed this tweet against their will.
It’s not about being too good a boxer, it’s that she does not perform femininity to the expectations of conservatives. She’s not pale, thin and dainty, therefore, she must be a man!
Australian here, the nation is pissed off at her because she took funding and opportunities from real breakdance groups including Australian First Nations peoples. There is a good reason people are getting so mad.
The nation? That’s a bit of a stretch… Also how many indigenous people miss out on other sporting events? Heaps. This is a distraction created by the media to distract from something else. Like Peter Dutton secretly going to Israel, now wanting to stop Palestinian refugees coming to Australia… But yeah who cares ray gun is horrible! Shame 🙄
In Australia voters and the gov (the coalition) have been constantly defunding and devaluing the arts. Hopefully there's a wake up call that we need funding for arts, particularly for regional communities and indigenous.
I really can't fathom doing a whole PhD in breakdancing and still knowing so little about your local breakdancing scene that you can't think of a single better person to get up there. Having so little respect for it as a physical art that you won't put up a better breakdancer to represent your entire country at the biggest sporting event in the world?? I have no objection to somebody being mid/bad at dancing but really enjoying it anyways, I'm not that hypocritical, but like, you're not qualified to lead the New York Ballet just because you can write a paper about Swan Lake.
I’m surprised that absolutely no one here seems to be mentioning the IOC’s refusal to disqualify Israel from the games even after they disqualified Russia for invading Ukraine. not only that but the commentators spoke negatively about the pro Palestine protestors who were outside and treated the competing Israeli athletes as poor victims who were being bullied. it really shows where the IOC’s priorities are depending on the skin color of the people who are being bombed and invaded
ngl disqualifying countries as a whole seems distasteful. It really just opens up wounds for discrimination, like what happened to a few Russian staff. What’s more is it raises those questions like with Israel regarding the whole war, and focus shifts less towards the sports and more on the politics of it, which sucks
If Israel had invaded without provocation, maybe. But they’re not comparable because like it or not, Hamas started this war and it would be a geopolitical mess to disqualify the country that was attacked and was responding the same way any other nation would if they were attacked in a similar way and so many civilians massacred.
@@chanashira8570 russia got disqualified for invading ukraine a few years ago, yet israel doesn't get the same treatment even though they've been invading palestine forrrrrr... the past 70 years? it's giving "do you condemn Hamas?" type of energy lol
@@YouzaName79genocide isn’t politics. supporting human rights isn’t political. and its not distasteful nor does it suck to disqualify the country that was built on genocide for actively committing genocide. this take lacks so much empathy
Not only do they not know what a woman is but they also don't know what Christianity is because they confused the Feast of the Gods with The Last Supper.
Apparently you are the one who don’t know, just do your research, this person is genetically male, sywer syndrome give the wrong genitals at birth, the brain the body is male not female. Having genitals resembling female genitals at birth is not what make you a woman, your brain has a gender, your chromosomes indicate the gender of your brain. Read about the syndrome, males are born with female genitals and female with male genitals.
11:17 Fun fact: Kim Yeji is also a mother of a six year old and she bring around a teddy bear that her daughter gave her in her bag. I just think that's SOOOOO CUTE 😍
I have massive respect for Imane Khelif for still shaking her Hungarian opponents hand after their match and after that same Hungarian boxer mocked her on instagram before the fight. Just she's way nicer than I would've been that's for damn sure.
the entire women’s artistic gymnastics event was a SHIT SHOW 😭 you didn’t even mention the judges deducting points from Simone Biles because she “didn’t salute them” after her beam routine (even though she VERY clearly did…). and then her iconic eye roll when she saw the score, plus the magnificently petty response of saluting them all the way off the the mat with a huge smile after her floor routine. she’s such a queen 💅🏼🐐💃🏻👑
Right! I saw a a guy come off the high bar and he saluted just like simone didnot directly to the judges and arms up for less than a second he was not punished or talked to in any way though
Simon only saluted generally but she was also supposed to turn towards the judges and salute again, she didn't follow the rules and points were deducted accordingly, the rules also apply to her, no matter how good or famous she is 🤷🏻♀️
she did start the lawsuit! 9:35 "...a complaint was filed on Friday with a special unit in the Paris prosecutor’s office for online harassment" according to her lawyer. her lawyer said that the lawsuit was filed against X because under French rules, it means that “prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages." Hoping it goes well!
DeSantis claiming to care about funding for school lunches when his party isn't the one trying to give free lunches in school is rich, to say the least
This whole Imani situation disproves the transphobic argument perfectly. "Trans women shouldn't compete in women's sports because they have biological advantages." Point to cis woman with biological advantages but not because of her sex, there are millions of these same situations. I'm glad she is suing people, we cannot allow any woman who is strong or has any "masculine" traits be harassed like this. This is sexual harassment.
Most female athletes have a biological advantage over other women. Itst why they're able to become Olympians and make world records. The anti-trans crowd doesn't want to think deeper than surface level is all. They'll attack athletes for not being the pinnacle of femininity or for having masculine features.
Thank you for all the “even if she was transgender, she wouldn’t deserve this hate” because so many people wouldn’t defend someone in this position if they were trans.
Algerian here. It's so disgusting seeing the bullying against Imane. She filed a lawsuit against musk and rowling and the whole country is supporting her. 1, 2, 3, viva l'Algérie 🇩🇿🇩🇿❣️❣️
@@Junebug2908 ikr! Her dad had to come out and show pictures of her as a child and in school. No one should be forced to disclose private pictures or information like that it's so sad
@@exo-l-ts9jf It's sad that he had to disclose that much of their personal lives like that but it's made me respect Imane and her family all the more, knowing how hard they've all worked for this (and that she's so loved and supported in her career by her family)!
the Turkish shooter won silver as a part of a team. he's been to the Olympics several times and placed 13th overall. it was his teammate, a 24 year old woman, who won them the silver overall. she also shot with no gear and a hand in the pocket. it's a common stance. it's annoying that no one is giving her her flowers since she is the one who placed so high it brought his low score up enough for them to take silver. sigh.
i literally saw other people claim that he actually was the best in one category and the other one was dragging him down xD. I need to rewatch the whole thing, its getting out of hand
I’m kinda equally annoyed you never even bothered to mention her name in a comment talking about how you wish she could have gotten her flowers…not only weirdly ironic…but really would have helped those of us who missed out on that information.
Imane was born and identified as female in a country where it is illegal to even test her to learn otherwise, and she has lived her entire life as female. Even if she was intersex, that's not trans and not against the rules and doesn't give her an advantage.
That and the entire Algerian female boxing team (coaches, assistants, doctors etc.) would have to be in on the conspiracy as well in a country where their culture and laws would give them every reason to not want to go along with it and squeal.
I saw conspiracy theories about the swimmers, too, that they were doping since certain swimmers had red faces, but having been a competitive swimmer for years, those red faces were ABSOLUTELY caused by the pool either being too warm or too shallow 😭
ooooo i’m so curious, i understand how too warm would cause that, but how does it happen when it’s too shallow? it’s so cool that you were a competitive swimmer!!
@griffinblades8475 shallower pools can cause slightly higher levels of resistance at that high of a level of competition, and can mess your dives and turns up if youre used to a certain depth, similar to how a vault in gymnastics being lower messes up your game, bc of muscle memory . Its not gonna bother your average Joe going for a swim, which is why people don't notice that it makes a difference, but I competed in pools which had much different depths when swimming, and we would have to get briefed on when to turn and where to aim when diving due to the discrepancies
the thing that really sucks about raygun is that she made breaking seem like a joke to the international spotlight that it got in the olympics. breaking's origin was a way for marginalized communities to express themselves and create art. They would get in trouble with the police for just finding places to break. and instead a white girl came in and made breaking a laughingstock to the world. the sport wasn't in the lineup for the 2028 olympics anyways but i actually doubt it will ever come back because of this.
She got zero points for her routines and was directly competing against competent people. Anyone who bothers to look into it for five seconds would realize something's gone horrendously wrong on the Australian side of things. Of course, when things go viral, people don't check into them, but on the other hand, since this makes her look even _worse_ than she already did, I think the information is more likely to get spread than it normally would. All this to say, I hope things won't be as bad as they might otherwise be because of this asshole who thought they could be an Olympian.
I was just super disgusted and outraged on Imane's behalf that literally millions of people were suddenly openly discussing her body and medical status like they had every right to. I would feel so violated. People are doing it right now still in these comments. It's truly unhinged. Leave her alone. You don't know her. You're not owed anything by her.
7:39 funniest part is that this was NOT even a depiction of the Last Supper as Christians claimed. It was instead referring to Dionysius' Feast as per the Greek Mythology... because of the origins of the Olympics?? How do people not talk about this
Because Christians think the world revolves around them. Which is why they're unable to see the rest of the world and the people who don't follow it outside of their religious bubble.
I’m sorry but the first positivity break isn’t actually that positive. The Turkish guy did win 2nd place but it was a team effort with Sevval Ilayda Tarhan but no one even knows about her. “The thing is that Yusuf Dikech won Olympic silver not alone. It was a team match. His colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan shot shoulder to shoulder with him. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose and also with minimal crew. The only difference is that he is 51 and she is 24. He started practicing professional shooting around the time she was first born. Dikech is an excellent shooter and has plenty of medals in prestigious competitions, but he had never climbed the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and performed with him in the same team.”
at least 50 athletes tested positive for covid, including noah lyle, who ran his last race while actively symptomatic and collapsed afterward and had to be taken off the track in a wheelchair :/
naoh lyle also talked about how he was pressured by people around him to continue despite being infected and he shared that COVID was rampid in the Olympic village, but few athletes were allowed to be open about it.
@@onlylaboum A cousin of mine worked as a physiotherapist for an Italian athlete, and the athletes were under pressure not to mention the discomfort they experienced in the Olympic village in all respects, from accommodations, to food, to air conditioning, to the management of transportation to the places where the competitions were held...it was a race to the death especially for those who had to stay for several days. When some of the athletes through social media started to speak out, then the Italians did too, at first shyly and jokingly, then really complaining openly. However, as usual, the French covered everything by talking about “record attendance,” “record tickets,” and other things that I am sure the public liked, while the athletes were reduced to extras. The only person in Italy who spoke highly of her experience at the Olympic village was Sofia Raffaeli.
As an Italian, I’ve spend the last week of the Olympics being incredibly ashamed of rooting for my country because we got internationally criticized for what Angela Carini did, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. She is a disgrace to her sport and sport in general. All I can say is that it was clearly heavily influenced by politics. We are currently governed by far right extremists who refuse to declare themselves antifascists (they had the chance, the decide to specifically avoid that word) and perpetuate discriminatory behavior against all already discriminated people. The “rumors” of Imane Khelif being a trans woman were shared on twitter by Italian politicians in charge and later enabled a hate campaign against her. I REPEAT: THE HIGHEST OFFICES OF STATE SHARED FAKE NEWS AGAINST IMANE KHELIF MAKING CARINI LOOK LIKE THE POOR VICTIM OF AN UNFAIR FIGHT. The day Angela Carini had that whole dramatic breakdown on the ring, Giorgia Meloni (Italy’s prime minister, far right and self declared nostalgic of the regime) was in Paris and they had a whole photoshoot ready of her hugging Angela and comforting her after the unfair fight. Angela said “this is not fair, I’m not stopping here” and then a couple of days later announced she was “done with boxing”. Truly a circus. Angela Carini, that same day, talked to journalists and praised Giorgia from head to toe. Just a couple of days ago, it was revealed that Angela Carini is starring in a commercial promoting the construction of the Strait of Messina Bridge, a project promoted mainly by the Italian right wing. So yeah, I really ended up hating everybody. Except for Imane. Love her. She deserves her gold medal and deserves to count her money after all the people she has sued 💕💕
Yeah, once I found out she was a cop in the national police I had real doubts about her choices in that fight. It stinks of someone who wants to run for office.
Se si fosse ritirata perché davvero pensava che fosse troppo pericoloso per lei, avrebbe il mio pieno supporto. La salute prima di tutto. Ma se ti metti a frignare tra le braccia della meloni e ad accusare la gente di non essere quello che è (riuscendo in un colpo solo ad offerendere le tutte donne, cis e trans, e le donne algerine, chapeaux davvero) per me puoi affogare nello stesso stretto di cui supporti la deturpazione 😊
Extremely out of topic but I really truly appreciate the fact that you pronounced Yusuf Dikeç's name as correctly as possible so thank you, that was refreshing to hear 🙏
It isn't breaking tradition to give out multiple medals. In the past, GOLD medals were given when there were issues with the competition. The fact that they didn't even let the US Gymnastics reps know about the appeal until 3 days after they should have, and didn't allow them time to disprove the false allegations about the jury being four seconds late, makes it feel very political. I am of the opinion they should have tied for Bronze to undo the Judge's eff ups!
I just LOVE how Snoop Dogg approaches everything with such a sense of wonder and enthusiasm, not giving a hoot whether it’s ‘cool’, or whether he is ‘supposed’ to enjoy this. His inner child is shining through in the best way possible.
he's definitely funny and interesting but I get the feeling a lot of yall dont know a lot about him... he has done and said a lot of sinister stuff throughout his career and life
@@botanicalitus4194 there is certainly a huge divide between ‘gangsta rap Snoop’ and ‘Media Personality Snoop, ft. Ms. Stewart’. Almost like it’s two different people sometimes. Do you think one persona is fake, or it’s more a case of growing into a person with a whole different set of goals, values and interests?
Actually, if Sabrina Voinea's score (officially 13.700) had been assessed correctly in the first place, she would be third. The deduction for stepping with one foot outside of the mat is 0.1, which means that without the deduction her score would be 13.800, putting her above both Ana Barbosu (13.700) and Jordan Chiles (13.766) . She's the rightful owner of that medal and yet nobody's talking about her
Let’s also not forget the absolute disrespect towards Muslim women the Olympics committed by banning the hijab knowing damn well that, to Muslim women, its not a religious symbol or an accessory that can simply be taken off in public. For a country that is supposedly “progressive”, pretending that they dont know what the head covering entail is pretty telling about their intentions lol.
France is not progressive at all, our government just likes to pretend in front of other countries. We were literally on the verge of giving a far right party the majority at the national assembly, which would have meant electing a far right politician as prime minister. They can lie all they want but in the end everyone knows France is a racist, intolerant country.
@@kaikiwwiduring the opening ceremony when the NOC delegations were on boats being introduced in the River Seine. a good time to plug Notdudol, a Korean community organization focused on ending the war and building Korean support. check them out ❤
@@kaikiwwi During the opening ceremony…South Korea is called “Republic of Korea” and North Korea is “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Guess which one they stupidly used when South Korea’s team arrived… 😬
another thing about the iman situation that i feel like not enough people are talking about (outside of arab countries), is that it's not only sexist, implying there's a certain way women should look, but also a racist one. some of our women may not fit the very european/white image of what a woman looks like, but that does not make them any less women. to me she does not look like a man in the first place, i see women that look like her all the time in my day to day, and i can't help but think others struggle to see that because they're judging based on what they conceive to be a "normal looking" woman. if a woman is not "feminine" looking enough to them they must not be women at all to them. and this kinda thing has happened before to black women athletes (go figure..) another really upsetting thing about the olympics is, despite russia and belarus being banned from participating because of their crimes against ukraine, israel was allowed to participate. it doesn't matter if they've committed countless WAR CRIMES against the people of gaza, cuz last time i checked they, well, were not white.
100% - transphobia/transmisogyny and white supremacy go together like peas in a pod. some people were saying that having visible hair on her knuckles was evidence that she was a man… like so painfully obvious these transphobes have probably never interacted with anyone who wasn’t white 😭
My siblings and I grew up break dancing... and It's an odd feeling. IMO a lot of break dancers grow up in the most impoverished communities and being able to reach the highest stage.. requires a lot of resources. I fell off but I still watch my family and their crew constantly adapting; trying to even find even the dance space to practice in, while each of them juggling multiple jobs, and going to school. Heck, my brother even teaches break dancing at the local HS and college to make some extra cash. Travelling to a jam or to a breakdance cypher, tends to cost more than any of the earnings, if any. Idk.. but to reiterate, a small part of me is glad Breakdancing was able to reach the olympics but it's sad that the most attention it has gotten, isn't the skill and technique.. but some white woman doing belly slides and a kangaroo thing. Hot take: while she's not actually terrible, It def leaned more into interpretive dancing. It shows that a bit of privilege may not get you a gold medal, but it can take you to the world stage, over the dozens of amazing breakdancers, I've met in my life. Sorry for the rant.
Please don't be sorry for the rant. I hope your family gets to continue their passion as long as they want/can. I definitely agree with what youre saying here about Raygun.
Yeah I hate being a party pooper who "hates fun", but it definitely felt very dystopian seeing a white woman basically come onto the Olympics stage as a joke. She can dance and have fun, but not at the cost of occupying someone else's deserving spot while clearly pulling strings behind the scenes. Especially with this year being the breakdancing category's debut, most people aren't going to see the actual performances & won't take it seriously.
i watched the entire women's breaking competition and there were so many skilled athletes and so many crazy routines yet everyone is just focused on making fun of the worst one in the competition. it's sad
Don't be sorry. Im angry without cultural connections. I can't imagine how it's feel having deep ties to the art. I hope peoples reaction and invalidating of her participation shows how much respect and awe there exists for it ❤️
Everyone, Algerian people standed behind Imane's back since the begging, so please anyone who thought that her life was in danger in her country because of the rumors.. don't ! Algeria knows its champion well and she was and is and will be safe whatever people said or will say about her. Actually, The whole arab countries were supportive for Imane since the controversy started. We all defended and fought for her. For people who are confused because she is a woman but she doesn't wear hijab, that's because we don't really force women to wear hijab and hijabless women exist in the arab countries.
D'Angelo, Muslim hijabi here - forgot to mention the hijab ban and the woman who was given the last gold medal of the Olympics wore hijab - the irony. Muslims were celebrating everywhere😂
I'm French, at least abroad you escaped the social, economic and generally political unrest this whole mess created. Many uni students were ejected from their appartements to home the tourists, cleaning la Seine cost 1 billion and a half of euro which is extremely expensive and la Seine is still dirty (you can look up online the batshit crazy stuff found in it it is awful). The metro price tickets skyrocketed and is unlikely to lower for a long time, homeless people were moved out of Paris even those who had a job. They asked retired people to volunteer for security during the event, they had a contract with Coca Cola which tried to greenwash their participation but most bottles sold or distributed during the games were not recycled and not recyclable. Outside of the restaurants were surrounded by barriers making people drinking people feel like they were in a zoo. They also closed many areas for cars which made a big mess for people working in those areas. The opening ceremony scene was based on Dionysos' representations and not the last supper. The artist who made the ceremony said it publicly. Anyways, I'm over with those games.
Great report but you forgot - Triathlon swimmers exposed to dangerous levels of E.coli - The beds, lack of AC, lack of protein for athletes - Announced South Korea as North Korea Needless to say your thesis is correct 😅
i try not to let internet bullshit get to me, but as an arab woman with pcos and naturally higher testosterone level than the "average" woman, seeing the way people went after Imane really got my blood boiling. there's no one right way to be a woman, and there's also no one right way to be biologically female. it doesn't matter what your biological gender is, hormones and features can fluctuate. so often WOC are dismissed and seen as "mannish". people have said the same bullshit about serena williams and simone biles. it's just so disheartening to see.
Right?! I've been mocked and been called half-wolf because my body hair due to pcos. I would rather people think I'm trans but, still, why do people expect women to fit in a tiny box? They know nothing of biology, the idiots.
Not related to Imane who isn't transgender, i do take issue with what would otherwise be a fair statement "there is no one right way to be a woman' when within the confines/ecosystem/paradigm of sport it actually matters (biologically). Exhibiting XY chromosome traits and the physiology that comes with that should prevent that person from competing in the XX division of sports. Gender actually plays a huge role in that regard. Though there are plenty of examples where female identifying persons have beat out male identifying persons (aw yeah Billie Jean). But otherwise, male physiology matters where strength and overall power matters. Otherwise i'm not here to parse the rest of your statement(s) because, yep, true story, regardless of chromosomes (and that includes intersex persons), you can be whomever the hell you want to be and don't need permission to identify with what feels right for you. (and deserve rights and laws that protect you)
This sucks. I think it used to be a lot more common to be what society terms ‘masculine’ and still be a woman. Unfortunately, now that There are no facts taken into consideration at all, anyone can be mistaken for anyone at any time. So to say that you angry that she was mistaken for being trans But then also 100% support the trans movement Makes no sense There’s no movement in history that’s supplanted ‘feminine’ for ‘female’ the way this movement does. Know why? They don’t get it. Guess why that is?
@@LauraRamirez-zd3ilmy issue with this is we don't care or control for any other factors that can contribute to the same disparity or even worse in most of these scenarios
@@LauraRamirez-zd3il "The XX division of sports" You mean the women's division, which forcibly ripped out all trans women after a politically manufactured moral panic. Just a few years ago feminism was about abolition of gender segregation, and then cis women discovered that transmisogyny allowed them the chance to be the oppressor.
Fun fact: As a french person, i expected the Olympics to be a disaster. My entire family knew it would be a disaster on the administrational side, talking in disbelief about how ridiculous it was to make the athletes swim in the Seine river. But dear god it got so so much worse than i thought. Never underestimate how stupid people can be.
People so mad about the drag queens when it wasnt even based on The Last Supper. It was based on the 17th century painting The Feast of the Gods by Dutch artist Jan Harmensz van Bijlert. Because. It was the Olympics
Even if it was, the Last Supper is an italian piece of art done by Leonardo da Vinci, it's none of any yankee business what we southern europeans do with the imagery of it.
Gross transphobia aside, people gotta understand that in any competition in almost any field, people will never be truly equal. A chess competition may not be equal bc one of the contestants is autistic and therefore has better memorizing patterns. A kids' drawing competition may not be equal because a rich kid took drawing classes and the poor kid didn't. A sports competition may not be equal because it takes place in summer and a Ghanaian will perform better in extreme heat than a Finn. Let professionals themselves decide whether they feel fair competing against someone - with NO takebacks.
@@helenar2509You can't possibly compare being tall to being born of the opposite gender. I'm no transphobic but c'mon, the sports are seperated man and woman for a reason.
Even if Imane Khelif has high testosterone for a woman, she's not the only person in the Olympics with a genetic advantage. The whole Olympics is basically a showcase of various genetic freaks (I mean this as a compliment) who have therefore been able to achieve fantastically highly in their fields. Like Michael Phelps had basically the ideal swimmer's body, down to his ankles being double-jointed and his armspan being wider than average, therefore making his butterfly stroke more efficient than others'. If we are going to exclude anyone who has genetic traits that give them an advantage in their sport, there will basically be no Olympians left. You can see each sport has a particular body type!!!
Yeah OK sure but you still have to compete fairly. If your chromosomes don't match your opponents chromosomes you should not be fighting. XY chromosome is not female XX is
@@poshdelux chromosomes are an instruction for your body to develop certain traits, as DNA is a blueprint, but they don't always result in the "typical" expected body type. There are many people who live their lives as cisgender and perisex, and only find out much later on that their chromosomes are actually those of the opposite sex. And, once undergoing years of HRT, trans people are hormonally indistinguishable from cis people, and in terms of physical competition are generally on the same level as a cis person of a similar height + weight who's done the same amount of training as them. Chromosomes are a part of genetics, and such instruct how the body may develop, but are insignificant when actually measuring people's lived realities. Do you know your chromosomes? Have you had them tested?
@@fluffacep its like saying hormonally women are no different from chickens so its an equal fights. Fighting someone that is biologically male as a woman that have the same skill sets and experience, biological male/trans woman would win. She may be a woman, but maybe think abt how she and the other participant got disqualified in the prev competition. Maybe shes intersex but never knew about it? Woman genitalia, but male like body. Who knows. Im a woman, it is disgusting what you guys enable in sports. Killing and disrespecting womens sports, respect which women have fought for decades. Just because someone is taking hormones doesnt make them equally weak as me.
This is a side note but about the Olympian housing situation. A couple of months ago (at least 3 or more), on Tiktok a lot of Parisians were saying that the government was kicking out students to make room for tourists and potentially Olympic village only for the accommodations to be TERRIBLE. Imagine being kicked out of your student housing for Olympians who’d rather sleep on the sidewalk and it’s all the blame of your government; smh! 🤦🏾♀️ Edit/note: I meant that it must be horrible to be kicked out of your housing and watch the olympians suffer in their housing too (Olympians weren’t the cause of their kick out directly but the tourism aspect was). Lose-lose-lose situation considering the reports of how tourists were treated in Paris as well (plus how Parisian’s also said on TikTok that they were gonna treat ppl badly).
Athletes were in brand new buildings. You usually don’t stay in your student residence in the summer. The ones who do are the ones from overseas who come there to study for cheap and whose parents don’t pay taxes in the EU.
It's also kinda important to note that, before the fight against Khelif, people in Italy (aka the far right) were already saying that poor Carini was going to have to fight a man and how unfair it was (if I'm remembering correctly). What Carini did on the day of the fight was just the icing on the cake. The Italian conservatives took her statements and just made things much worse, and then it somehow reached the rest of the world. The whole hate campaign was political from the very beginning.
7:30 its even better because it *isn't* representing the last supper. Its supposed to be a different story in greek mythology because its the OLYMPICS?
@@kennedysvsp9824there are so many gods in Greek mythology? saying ‘a god’ and not just ‘God’ should already have signaled to you they were not talking about figures in judeo-christianity
17:17 ON RAYGUN: The situation is much worse than even discussed here. She apparently was calculated in what she was doing from the start as she has former academic"research" about white folks' ability to navigate "hip-hop culture & spaces'" by utilizing their privilege, especially in academic spaces, to be able to appear more legitimate. She herself was a long time ballroom & jazz dancer and only decided to learn breaking when it was announced as an Olympic event because she was bitter about ballroom being rejected as a potential event (it is considered too dated, though she did say at one point too that she decided to learn breaking to make sure Australia didn't look bad...). There's also reports that she also only qualified because she was able to afford to travel to multiple events (it took three for her to qualify) & pay the fees for competing, while she funded her own peers (academics & former ball room dancers new to breaking) in doing so as well while not actually connecting with the already existing breaking communities in Australia. The judges deciding who qualified in Australia also knew her personally because the IOC had selected the WDSF to be the judges of who qualified, and those judges in Australia were primarily ballroom judges & academics. So while I dont necessarily agree with the wording/energy, the commenter isn't completely wrong: she did purposely take the place of skilled people in an almost social experiment trying to back up her research.
There's a lot of speculation and half-truth in your narrative. Raygun's research was on bgirls and navigating hiphop as a woman, specifically, hence why she had local support and wasn't considered a problematic person pre-olympics. There's no proof it was a 'social experiement' for research, either, we really don't know what she was thinking. One of the best theories I saw was that she may have seriously been trying to innovate with interpretive dance, but simply lacked the talent to pull it off.
The thing with boxer Imane Khelif that many people are forgetting is that in Algeria being Trans is illegal and the punishment is jail as well as fines. Algeria is very anti LGBTQ which is why so many death threats have been happening and why she has been so strong in saying she isn't trans, not being outraged would culturally at home be seen as a huge insult to the entire country. Having one of their athletes being accused of being Trans is a huge insult to them. Being in the LGBTQ community in Algeria can be a death sentence for many, it's really sad.
To be clear Imane Khelif is a cis woman from birth. This shouldn't even be happening, but the politics and culture in her country adds extra layers to it. I personally support and am part of the LGBTQ community but I live in a country where it is safe to be out and again that has nothing to do with her because she should have never been accused of being Trans.
Search for and read the article 'le point was devastated'. You have been misled and lied to by the left wing media and activists into having the 'right' opinion. It's difficult to find articles reporting the other side because it doesnt fit the mainstream activist narrative, but if you're intellectually honest you will read this article and see.
While your overall comment is true, there are a couple things that are very important to mention. Imane has not been “so strong” about saying she’s not trans; she’s basically never mentioned it at all, and the vast, vast majority of Algeria supports Imane and doesn’t believe the transvestigation. Most Algerians I’ve heard from are kind of laughing at it and/or considering it too ridiculous to take seriously. The death threats were not coming from transphobic Algerians, it was from transphobic Westerners. Why has the country with more strict anti-LGBT laws been way more supportive and accepting of this woman not conforming to stereotypical roles than people in places like the UK and the US? Part of it is because she’s been a famous and successful boxer representing her country proudly for years already, and yes, may or may not have been as supported by her country if she was less accomplished, but part of it is also Islamophobia and racism. Women of color are way more likely to be the victims of “transvestigator” conspiracies (Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Zendaya have all gotten this treatment), especially when they’re successful and visible in a place that people subconsciously assume would (or should) be held by a white person. That’s a big part of why the hate against Imane was so strong among white, right-wing western circles (the fact that her beating a white woman “sparked” this was both very telling and very familiar) and basically nonexistent among actual Algerians.
@@zaynab-to-aeven Adriana Lima gets trans allegations all the time. It’s hilarious, any person they feel have slightly muscular features = trans and Vice versa.
@@Sizhui-mg6hc yep, nothing’s gonna make anyone exempt from the transvestigations if they decide they don’t like you. *Kyle Rittenhouse,* of all people, was accused en masse of being trans when offhandedly mentioning that he MIGHT not vote for Trump over his position on guns.
Imane’s story is incredible. People were so horrible to her, and yet she still found the strength to keep going and kick ass. I hope she gets every sponsorship and takes Musky to the cleaners.
On a semi-related note, Janjaem Suwannapheng (another boxer from Thailand who also got accused of being transgender), revealed in a talk show that they “checked” her gender by looking at her vagina. Yes. LOOKING at her vagina. She said that she was asked to go into a separate room with 2 female staffs and was asked to take her pants off and sit down on a chair, so the staffs can take a good look. Are we actually in 2024 cuz there has to be a less barbaric way to do this???? Like idk maybe use ultrasound or smth??????
Or believing athletes, or doing blood tests (which would dq a lot of cis women for having naturally high testosterone but all these people upset about trans people competing also hate women, so it wouldn’t matter to them) it’s not like the penis does the boxing. Transphobes are perverts and idiots.
"Like idk maybe use ultrasound or smth??????" Or maybe not use something at all. Like, it's only the women's category that sees these invasive, embarrassing, not conclusive, and quite often wrong gender-tests. Hormonal tests are also problematic, because of how testosterone is a hormone that varies stark in the amount measured based on the time of day at which the bloodsample was taken (this is true for both men and women by the way), but in women who experience a period will also fluctuate based on the time in their cycle the bloodsample get's taken. Which is why that as well is so problematic. The weird thing is: we have a very good way of checking if someone is eligible to participate. We call them statistics, game results, championships won... That kind of thing. But the thing you mentioned is exactly what gender-critical feminists, who love to claim they are in favor of protecting women, just like some sporting unions claim they are are now heavily supporting: the idea that the protection of women from transwomen is best served by shoving a speculum inside of them... And that's why I am saying for a couple of years now that transphobia is never limited to trans-women. The mere idea that there needs to be a very strict definition of femininity used to exclude anyone who by whatever standard doesn't adhere to it, will hurt, and has provably hurt cis-women. But gender-critical feminists don't care, they really don't care. And the clearest example of that was given by Rowling. It's just racism and sexism, for her explicitly showing that Western beauty standards are the only allowed and correct one. And even then, people like Rowling will be capable of singling out a cis-women not adhering to those standards enough.
@@luv4tajhanb Because of misogyny, and the misplaced idea that you can judge femininity or womanhood by the neonatal state of the vagina. A Dutch slogan-company that makes thought-provoking posters once framed it like this: "Fairness in sports - When they start excluding men for being not manly enough."
Yes I agree, they can at the very least provide ultrasound test, as someone who had gone breast cyst removal surgery it's very uncomfortable every time I have to undress to get examined in front of strangers. I can't imagine how worse would it feel for strangers to see your privates, and it wasn't even a life and death situation, just no.
Can we take a moment to actually remember that the Olympics were made by the Greeks, where EVERYONE could participate and LITERAL WARS stopped since the Olympics were basically a moment of PEACE?! I'm so done honestly.
@@GlassesBooksCookies touché, but except from the obvious and blatant discrimination against women, wars would actually stop, though you are still VERY CORRECT
@@Hyster1cal1nsan1ty No, wars wouldn't stop. They just agreed not to attack the city where the games were held for the duration, or athletes and visitors traveling to and from there. There was simply no way you could keep those ancient Greeks from fighting wars all the damn time, especially against each other.
@@luckas221a hi hi ! This is actually a general misrepresentation! Homosexual relations between two adult men were heavily stigmatized and shamed! They did a LOTTTTTTT of pederasty but idk if that's something to venerate! The "gay" in ancient Greece (at least if we're discussing the homosexual men) was fucking little boys! If you were fucking an adult man as an adult man it was a method of intimidation and if you actually enjoyed it that's so weird bro
Imane Khelif comes from a country in which gender transition is illegal. I’m glad she’s suing for the slander and hate sent her way based off misinformation.
Honestly fair. Us french have been complaining about the olympics since it was announced to take place in Paris. So here is a quick recap of why: -they kicked out all uni students in social housing to fit in staff for the olympics instead as well as police and policemen complained about how much their little cramped room sucked. Like yeah dude. But somehow nobody listened to students when they were the ones complaining. -they also kicked out all the homeless as well which in Paris is a whole lot of people! -don't get me started on the "swiming in the Seine" thing. Fucking stupid and stupidly expensive. So much so that we were debating if we should all agree on a date to take a shit in the Seine. But i think that was cancelled. -and while they were spending MORE THAN ONE BILLION EUROS to clean up the Seine people in Mayotte dont have access to clean water and people in Guadeloupe and Martinique suffer from they water supplies being cut off regularly. -also our political landscape changed drastically right before the beginning of the olympics and we were about to elect a new prime minister and secure more seats on the Left and the president was basically like yeah but how about a time out just until the end of the olympics. And after it was over he's saying yeah but i like the way it is now i don't want to change it even if you guys clearly just voted for a more left leaning government, i don't agree so i'm just going to ignore you. Totalitarian bullshit.
I couldn't care less about sports and have never paid attention to boxing before but the entire Imane Khelif hate campaign was so insane and baseless I started reading up everything about the "issue" and defended her everytime, like my life depended on it. Women stick up for women.
@@jokingpredator8383 the "tests" as well as the results were undisclosed. They never revealed the actual results nor any evidence backing it. The accusations came from the top guy in the IBA, an organization that has long been discredited for bias and corruption and one that the International Olympic Committee doesn't recognize. The IOC also did tests, all of which Imane passed so yeah, the accusations were baseless.
@@jokingpredator8383 the IBA never actually disclosed what tests imane "failed" or any evidence backing this result. the only information given by the IBA was that imane had male chromosomes which was already disputed by the International Olympic Committee due to it being untrue. the IBA has also long been discredited due to their long track record of bias and corruption. also, Imane did say the "results" were bs in multiple interviews. she specifically said that she is a woman, that she was born a girl, has trained and fought as a girl, and will always be a woman.
@@jokingpredator8383 the "tests" as well as the results were undisclosed. They never revealed the actual results nor any evidence backing it. The accusations came from the top guy in the IBA, an organization that has long been discredited for bias and corruption and one that the International Olympic Committee doesn't recognize. The IOC also did tests, all of which Imane passed so yeah, the accusations were baseless.
@jokingpredator8383 nope, they said they did tests on here hormones. Women also produce testosterone, and many other women also failed it and had to have reevaluations done.
@@jokingpredator8383 Do you think only that one corrupt and disgraced organization did any tests? And how can you fight a test result when it isn't even known what tests were done, what the results were, or who did them? As an amateur athlete, I wouldn't want to pick a fight with the Russian mafia either.
omg Kim Yeji also had her daughter's little stuffed elephant toy (like a little plush elephant character with a baby blanket attached, like that style) clipped to her belt and hanging off the side. so her badass silhouette had her daughter's toy too it was so cute
The Olympic committee made up ways of implementing rules this year just to hurt the spirit of competition. Speaking as an Indian, our wrestling athlete VInesh Phogat qualified and won her semi-final match-up while being under the weight limit for her category. But during the final weigh-in, she was 100 g (0.22 pounds) over the limit despite her best efforts. So the committee decided to retroactively take away her silver medal and disqualify her from competing for any other medal. It was heartbreaking to follow because many people were aware of her story and had seen her come close to clinching a medal in the previous Olympics she participated in. The latest update I remember is that the IOC is not budging on the ruling but the final verdict hasn't been announced yet. Vinesh announced her retirement in a heartfelt statement after this debacle and it was such a shame how her final Olympics played out.
Perhaps because she failed a gender eligibility test for the 2023 World Championship? I believe it implies either higher testosterone levels than are allowed or a chromosome test, I do not know which
DeSantis claiming they're trying to "strip money from schools", kinda like what ... The no child left behind act? Or reducing revenue from taxes, particularly those reserved for education? Even IF that claim was true, the hypocrisy is off the charts.
Desantis underfunds schools in order to keep florida without an income tax, takes credit for the lack of income tax, and blames everyone else for the problems that inevitably arise when you don’t have money to fund schools, welfare, or infrastructure. He’s just talking out of his ass.
as an italian trans person I'm glad most people recognize what happened to Imane is horrible and unfair but I know that it is mostly because she isn't in fact trans this proves what we have been saying for years, that cis people who dont follow gender stereotypes are also at risk of transphobia and violence but they get more empathy because "it was all a mistake"
I truly don't get the last supper thing. The artistic director said it was actually inspired by the feast of the gods, which I believe considering that that painting has a Bacchus with grape clusters at the forefront and so did the performance. The numbers of people present is also closer to the feast than the last supper, and the table drapes match with the feast's table whereas they don't with the last supper's. Even if it were, though, what's the complaint? That they made DaVinci fruity? I have bad news for them about like 90% of Renaissance painters.
It makes much more sense when you realize that it was just the Americans complaining that people in a different continent were not behaving exactly like they wanted them to.
@@ainsmetabolismishmmm5757 Are you mad because they '"misrepresented"' Greek culture at the Olympics- a Greek invention- or that they looked gay while doing it- also a common theme in Greek culture? Which part of this homage was ""misrepresented?"" If it hadn't been drag queens doing it, would it still have bothered you? Maybe think on that last thought for awhile, might do you some good
LOVED this video, but you didn't even mention the organization FIASCO of it all lmao Please do a part 2 including that!! Here are some stuff you can look for: - The cardboard beds led delegations to buy mattresses for their athletes/had them bringing their own - They forgot to pick up the skaters, who had to go back to the olympic village on their skates then take a cab (Rayssa Leal, Paris bronze medalist, talked about it on her IG stories) - The first few days, buses didn't have air conditioning and couldn't open the windows during SUMMER, plus they would be late to pick them up (confirmed by Brazilian table tennis player Bruna Takahashi on her ig stories, but other ppl said it as well) - Pools weren't as deep as they should've been - Food was terrible and they wasn't enough protein - Seine River was dirty and athletes got hospitalized (Claire Michel and Daniel Wiffen) Had this been an Asian, African or Latin American country, everyone would've said it was terrible and they should never host again, let's be honest PS: US basketball team stayed in a 5 star hotel - which I think should be prohibited for all athletes to avoid unbalanced competitions. If it's good enough for one, should be good enough for all. Exceptions should only be made for individual athletes with children.
The rabid transphobia from Rowling, Musk, Richard Dawkins, the Paul brothers, Piers Morgan and others honestly ruined the games for me. I usually really enjoy the Olympics but I was horrified by the amount of anti-LGBT hatred this year
Imane Khelif is a class act and I respect the hell out of her. She responded in the press with grace and perspective while still filing lawsuits against people who deserve to be sued for recklessly spreading dangerous rhetoric and misinformation. We stan.
Speaking of positive things that marked these Olympics for me - one of the highlights: Serbian basketball team getting the bronze in the morning, immediately going to a Serbian-style bar somewhere in Paris, drinking, celebrating and singing there, coming to the medal ceremony absolutely HAMMERED to the point they were leaning and stumbling on the podium and constantly laughing at eachother, then going back to Serbia where they continued celebrating in different ways. Team captain was most recently seen laying on the hood of (his?) car positively drunk after exiting a club LMAOO
My favourite part of this years Olympics was Henrik "The Muffin Man" Christiansen who ate a little too many chocolate muffins he so loved and got popular for, that he finished dead last in swimming. He was having the time of his life with those muffins and I loved all the tiktoks that were trying to decipher the recipe for the muffin.
I hope Imane sues Musk and Rowling and gets something out of it. My mom was insufferable about this. She briefly accepted that Imane is a woman (after I corrected her) but then got all wishy-washy "I don't know, it's hard to tell." When I told it's illegal to be trans in Algeria, she talks about how they'd get killed in countries like Algeria that make it illegal to be gay/trans, completely missing the point. It's hard to tell if she's insane or fucking with me.
I'm algerian and she is 100% a cis woman, it's not even close here to trans if the government doesn't put u in jail for life the ppl will kill u It's like suicide
No because I just had to listen to a sermon today where the pastor brought up Imane and referred to her as "he", so I checked a couple of sources(I already knew the guy was wrong, I just wanted more info) and brought it up with my dad and he basically told me that people can lie(as in, Imane and everyone else could potentially be lying about her being cis) so I need to be careful where I get my sources from. ???????
@@lanagomisc.6005 I didn't consider that, I'm sorry! That wasn't my intention at all, your story just reminded me of what happened and I got a little heated.
As an Australian, we don’t claim Raygun. There’s so much focus on her performance that everyone is forgetting she definitely manipulated things to get where she did. We have genuinely talented and passionate dancers and she was a joker who cheated her way to the olympics. She deserves whatever she gets at this point.
Fucking chill. This kinda thing happend in the Olympics fairly frequently. Idk why this case in paticular has caught so much anger when there has been cases of people that only learned how to swim a year ago competing in swimming. And people have loved them
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sad update, post-recording: the olympics committee awarded ana bărbosu her bronze medal yesterday, officially knocking jordan out of the place she earned. this is what ana said:
"I can't help but think about Sabrina and Jordan right now. It's a difficult situation for us, with so many uncertainties and overwhelming emotions. I hope everyone understands that we have not done anything wrong at the Olympics. And that the Olympic spirit is more important than any misunderstanding between the authorities. I want to believe that the day will come when all three of us will receive a bronze medal.”
i respect her statement so much, and she's absolutely right. it's an absolute shame that the athletes involved have been a thousand times more professional than the international olympic committee. they deserve better!
Damn
Damn
they should not have gotten their flag back
It was Dionysus’s feast not the last supper
Elon Musk is being sued for harassment by the Algerian boxer.
That Dutch guy actually boils my blood. Like he calls it the biggest mistake of his life, but it’s not a mistake. A mistake is not grooming a child, planning to do international travel to meet them, giving said child alcohol, taking advantage of her, taking her to a second location and taking advantage of her again. When there are that many opportunities to reconsider it is not a mistake, it’s a character flaw. I am beyond disappointed that he was put in front of the world as a hero at an event where people the same age as the child he hurt compete.
Exactly.. plus the judge stating part of his punishment is not achieving his dreams of competing on high levels. And he did, at the olympics. Someone on a sex offenders register in one country (especially in EU) should be kept away from children in ALL countries.
Like, he was 19. Not a "young mistake". 19.
Yes I am as a Dutch person was appalled that he was able to represent our country, and many people in the Netherlands were angry
He calls it a "mistake", because he's only sorry he was caught. He doesn't give you-know-what about the victim.
I don’t know if it was mentioned but the Dutch guy’s wife is apparently a cop, which while not completely surprising, made the situation even worse.
I will never get over the fact that there was a LITERAL CHILD R@PIST in the Olympics this year and people decided to stir up a fake trans panic instead. It's genuinely ridiculous.
It says everything about the homophobes and transphobes who love to talk about protecting children. When the predators are straight and cis and white (which is most of the time), suddenly they don't care.
I'm not too sure where the idea that people didn't hate him competing came from in relation to the various other issues. There was nothing but absolute unanimous scorn for his country and team for the entire duration. While competing he was booed by the entire stadium, who then cheered when he was knocked out in the first round. Nobody was defending this guy, deservedly, and hopefully he never returns to the world stage or set foot near a child again
We booed his team each time they played
@@thesuperchoober I agree but people like JK Rowlling were clearly not one of those people
@@len4129 yeah true, but are we really gonna treat JK Rowling as someone with a credible opinion on these kinds of things haha
The worst part about the gymnastics situation is that the Americans and the Romanians asked to share the bronze, but the IOC refused.
Sharing would have been the best outcome. Both nations would have been happy. It would have been just. I feel so bad for both girls.
@@Splexsychiick No. It wouldn't!
This is not an "everybody is a winner" competition. There is ONE medal to be handed out (or there is a tie, which in gymnastics does not really happen). The decision could be so easily misused for other, upcoming, editions of the Olympic Games.
The rules of each competitions are made by Federations (FIG, FIVB, FIVA etc) and the IOC is an over-governing body that sets the framework & ensures organisation.
But I do agree: the decision regarding the number of medals is jurisprudence of the IOC.
@@mihaidumitrescu1325 Not only have Olympic medals been shared before in the past, but it definitely has happened in gymnastics. Even just looking at recent olympics, there was a tie just this year in Paris for Bronze in the men's horizontal bar. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, there was also a tie for Bronze in the women's floor event-which is wild because that's the exact event and medal placement this dispute is over.
Sure, getting a tie in gymnastics "doesn't really happen" as much since the scoring system changed in 2006, but the fact is, it CAN STILL happen. Add to the fact that this time there was a bunch of "You won the medal!!... Oh wait no you didn't.... HAHA just kidding yes you did!!" .... yeah not a good look and why people are incredibly upset by this outcome.
@@xSHOUTforAlthea when you say people are upset you mean americans specifically are upset, not people in general. Anyone outside the US that whatched the competition got actually confused when Jordan got this place instead of the romenian athletes. So, for us, it was justice being served and we are mostly happy for Romênia🤷🏻♀️
Don't get me wrong, Jordan is AMAZING she did nothing wrong at all but others were better and in my opinion if they let her have the medal it would much worse for her bc they'd be basically saying "hey we messed up and now we noticed that you were not actually third best buut no worries we will let you keep the medal so you won't feel sad y'know".
And, sincerely, every single human outside of the USA is so damn tired of watching your country winning without deserving it
@@mihaidumitrescu1325 .....duel winners are allowed. I never implied that it's an "everybody winner" I said what I said. Don't push other things on my statement and opinion. Yes there are rules and the judges messed up multiple times and mismanaged the situation. Thus I dont think the contestant should be penalized.
The craziest part about the gymnastics bronze medal is that the olympics has literally had people share a medal in the past. It wouldn't even be a new thing they haven't done. The fact that they are not having the olympians share the bronze at the very least is insane.
Actually during this Olympics two men shared a bronze in high bar, Zhang Boheng and Tang Chia-hung. BUT this is only because they had identical SV and identical execution. Typically in a tie, the person with the higher E score wins but since theirs were identical, they were able to share. Probably the reason FIG denied sharing the medals, even though they screwed up, is because the scores weren’t actually tied.
@@piratesswoop725 Yeah I know it's usually due to tied scores but there's been at least one case where two teams shared an Olympic gold because of controversy over judging. In the winter 2002 Olympics, the original silver-medalists for pair figure skating Jamie Salè and David Pelleti were upgraded to gold, sharing with the original gold medalists Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. This was changed because an investigation revealed one of the judges allegedly was going to vote for the gold medalists regardless of their performance. So it's not entirely unheard of even without tied scores.
I think i read somewhere ( but i don’t remember where) that Romania submitted the request originally that all three ladies share the bronze as it was a judging error and not an error of the athletes and honestly that would have been the right move in my opinion
The winner should win the medal. You work your ass off your whole life for this to be sharing your spotlight. And this is the only time I say something like this. I don’t even care if people wear white to my wedding or petty things like that.
Sabrina deserved the medal it should have been an easy choice. But like always the judges support the U.S. and thought they would get away with it again unfortunately this one was easy to see that Jordan didn’t win so they had to retract. If you watch the Olympics you know the judges typically give the U.S. better scores in certain sports and underscore other countries the U.S. has issues with.
It’s even crazier both countries are fine with sharing too so its not even a dispute with that
Ironically, women's boxing did have a trans player this year. We sent a trans male boxer to represent the Philippines. He competed in the women's division because he doesn't take testosterone & hasn't undergone HRT.
Edit: his name is Hergie Bacyadan!!
That's pretty cool! What's his name?
drop the name op !!
PHILIPPINES MENTIONED 🇵🇭🔉🦅
Noypi Astig!
@@samanthaandal6580 that's so fucking awesome shout out to my cousin country (i'm brazilian)
I watched the olympics closing ceremony in a fan zone in my city which has a huge algerian population, and everyone was cheering for Imane when she was on screen. It made me feel so much better after seeing the horrible comments online these past few weeks, I felt like crying.. I HOPE she gets a lot of money from this, I can’t imagine what she's been going through. She won a gold medal and can’t even enjoy the moment because of these hateful people.
I saw an interview with Imane talking about how deeply it affected her, so much so she had to get professional help to get her out of the spiral she was in😢I hope she can get justice for what was done to her, and finally get to celebrate her well deserved gold medal
@@capital_L283 Seriously, I hope it shuts up Rowling and Musk bad. Both really need to be put in their place for being the monsters that they are.
I'm mostly afraid this is not going away. The conspiracy theorists after all will say that the controversy and the way the IOC backed her up is the sign of "people finding out about the truth and getting to close to it, so they put on a show".
I think we also need to discuss more that being trans is literally ILLEGAL in Algeria, and that by publicly accusing Imane of being trans, they are risking her life and status in her home country. When she is literally A CIS WOMAN
So if she was trans it would be okay? I'm not sure what your "when she is literally a CIS woman" comment could be implying, because it seems like the only possible explanation is that you're saying that it would be "better" if she was a trans woman...
@@kezia8027That's not what they're saying. They're saying the fact they're making up a lie makes it even more ridiculous. Which it does.
@@kezia8027I think part of the whole point of highlighting the fact that Imane is from Algeria is that her life is at risk in her home country if ANYONE believes anything that those idiots are spouting.
@@kezia8027chill my dude you are reading between lines that don't even exist
@@kezia8027im not sure how you even got all of that from their very straight forward comment. Imane isn't trans. Being trans is illegal in Algeria. Accusing her of being trans puts her life at risk. How is that hard to understand? Delusional asf😂
As a Dutch person, I was absolutely appalled that the r*pist was able to compete, many people in the country were angry 🙁
Their excuse is that he was punished, punished ? Jail isn't punishment over r4pe and p3dophilia ,crazy , a man can comeback from that but amber heard can't over just lies
Absolutely insane. But then again the olympics suck anyways (the forced stupidly sexualised uniforms for women.)
Not enough people were angry though. Pedophilia is so normalised and minimalised in the Netherlands
@@p0epk1p41right. It’s outrageous that upon Britain transferring him back to the Netherlands to complete his sentence they just released him because they don’t consider what he did a crime. And I consider 4 years too lenient!
@@firstnamelastname7708 The law system here is completely broken! This country creates a perfect environment for any form of crime.
i would say their assumptions that she was trans are also xenophobic (assuming a person is AMB simply because their features aren’t “typical feminine” features, which, let’s be real, means “eurocentric beauty standards” and also misogynistic (ms. JOANNE) for assuming a woman is not a woman because she doesn’t look like your (*cough* white *cough*) standards for what a woman should look like. awful in every way
Correct. Ultimately this slander is racist in motivation.
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Khelif is an absolute warrior queen! I hope she wins this lawsuit!
I love how some people complain about beauty standards, then scream “MAN” at the first badass woman they see being a total badass, simply bc she’s not hyperfeminine. Ridiculous and offensive. Just an excuse for transphobes to spread their hate and transphobia.
It's funny, too, since as a lesbian, I think Imane is hot as fuck-all the more because of her badassery! Fuck these trans-exclusionary radicals, they're so far from actual feminism, it's not even funny.
Thissssssssss 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
they can “always tell” but harm so many cis women because they don’t look like the only fans models on their instagram feeds
Reason number 123552436 why “terfs” are just bigoted conservatives with a pretend-feminist coat of paint :
I agree with your overall point, but I have to say that I don't think the people calling out harmful "beauty" standards are the same people who think Imane is trans.
Thinking Algeria would support a transperson representing them its INSANE. Nvrmd the fact they put her life , her family and her entire team's in serious danger. SHE HITS Too Hard is the most insane excuse to dip out ever.
imane is intersex.
Nobody said he is trans, everyone said he is male.
@@Devi_SeonaSHES LITERALLY A CIS WOMAN 😭
@@Devi_Seonaa lot of people said she is trans actually. She is genetically a woman
That is stupidest thing I had heard on all videos in support of Imane Khalif. Please find me a way how a normal male presenting cis male could somehow enthrall the olympic to let him compete in women league? Even if there is a country desperate enough for a medal and rich enough to bribe, they will still try their best to disguise the "male" to at least appear as close as female as possible (i.e look like a trans female) because the last they wanted was to be outed during the event. @@Devi_Seona
Just wanted to point a few things out that D’angelo missed in this video. One of the reasons Imane’s opponent dipped so quickly was because her father had died recently before and she was still recovering from that. she herself has said that she feels sorry for Imane and doesn’t believe she deserves any of this. “The last supper “ was actually the feast of Dionysus which is part of Greek mythology and sort of the bases of the last supper.
Yeah you can clearly tell it was more inspired by the feast of Dionysus that the last supper, especially when Olympics took place in ancient Greece
I personally heard that the Italian athlete had a meeting with the far right party leader and she plans to go in to the politics. If she is sorry she did make a big deal for one punch.
@@anna.owo. Extreme-right politicans and lying, being deceitful and capable of doing 180's whenever it suits the grift is nothing new unfortunately... I would not trust her to much on her supposed apologies honestly.
And that's coming from a Dutch person that is now dealing with a bunch of unapologetic fascists, racists and transphobes for politicians now making up our cabinet of government, and a majority of the same parties making up the House of Representatives.
A former lawyer who went transphobic in 2023 (After already derailing towards extreme-right territory) confessed in a personal response to me in which I asked her for an explanation on her transphobic bullshit that "transpeople should be able to seek quick and good healthcare".
Not a year later she voted in favor of a transphobic motion meant to curtail that care and ban it (not using that much words, we are seeing the same fascist playbook being used here, start slow so people are like "But they are just asking questions, what's the harm in that?"), and also voted against a self-ID law proposal requesting to be banned before having made it through first term, by voting for a motion brought in by a different party.
Extreme-right politicians are fuckwhits, they never mean a word they say. They always need an enemy, to blame for all the things they can't fix, won't fix, and never will fix, because it will bring down the enemy they created for it. And inevitably, will show this enemy to not hold the power they continuously stated it held.
I have no sympathy for the Italian, she was paid $50,000 by the very people that kept claiming Imane’s a man. They have known each other since they were children, so she knows Imane is a woman. Nothing about her dad passing is related to this whatsoever.
@@Lemoncakelover678 having known an lived France for about a decade now, I believe it was a direct attack on Christianity. You have no idea how much thrill the media here gets from poking at religion. You can see this for yourself by watching French TV presenters interpret for those speaking at the podium and paying attention to their choice of words whenever someone mentions 'God' or 'Jesus.'
They presented the culture to you as directly as possible.
Honestly, the saddest situation this year was of Vinesh Phogat's. She wasn't allowed to compete in finals because she was 100gm overweight and it was so devastating. She had been protesting about Wrestlers being sexually assaulted in India, and these wrestlers were attacked by the law enforcement, humiliated, and victim blamed. It is just so sad to see her victory being taken away from her.
Yup, Vinesh can't catch a break. Was really rooting for her to win because she deserved it after the mental torture she had to endure during the wrestlers protest against abuse and institutional corruption. Her performance was a massive achievement in the face of adversity. I really wish they had awarded her the silver instead of disqualifying her. The rules are awfully unfair.
Yeah, not only was she only 100g off, but she was forced into a lower weight class just to punish her for daring to speak up about the sexual harassment. While I've personally never cared too much about the Olympics, I find this one a particularly disgraceful one. Or maybe ppl are just scrutinizing this one more than previous Olympic games
Our country is not corrupt at all. No one has ever been reprimanded in anyway for speaking out against the actions of governing bodies. No one has ever been arrested for speaking out the government. BJP definitely aren't fascists as they aren't doing anything like this. Oh wait....
@@vespernight4236unpopular opinion it wasn't to punish her. Saying so is like blaming others rather than the competitor. Her weight would have been her own fault....unless someone sabatoraged her diet (like in mean girl).
She control's her weight. Thats her and her team/dietition/trainer responsibiliy. This happens to people in sports that depend on weight class all the time. She isnt the first and she wont be the last something like this happens too.
It's a risky gamble. Some people go on severe weight loss before events and others do extreme bulking. Accidents happen.
Maybe her cortisol was high which caused her to gain the extra 100 gram such is life. Rules are rules.
@@Splexsychiick not unpopular opinion but mean and blaming the victim.
the imane khelif thing is crazy on *so many* levels but also imagine calling yourself a feminist yet insisting that hold on, a woman couldn't possibly achieve this !!! only a MAN could ever be this strong !!!
i've noticed a lot of self-described feminists spreading weirdly misogynistic views recently tbh
I'm not sure what wave of feminism they're operating on, but I have the feeling it is the stupidest wave of feminism. The one that comes with a side order of racism against anyone darker than the driven snow.
Yup. "I'm a feminist - not one of those pigs who think women have to all look like 1950s barbies - but THAT WOMAN HAS A SQUARE JAWLINE!!! REEEEE!" Like... yeah, so does Glenn Close. Since when did feminists start image-policing like that?
EXACTLY
@@justsomeguy898You nailed it, especially terfs. A lot of theie arguments narrow down to "women are inherently weaker, dumber, less capable and a woman could never even come close to being as good as a man."
Bullying is never justifies but I also think it’s important to mention there’s no governing body over break dancing in Australia! Ray and her husband helped quickly throw together a break dancing panel of judges. Ray Gunn was not only a part of creating this committee, her husband was one of the judges! Many Australian breakdancers couldn’t travel last minute or didn’t even know about it. When you see the people who even were informed that she beat to get to the Olympics it’s tragically clear that dancers in Australia were ROBBED, which is not cool obvi
Yeah. At first I saw it and laughed. It's interpretive dance, not really what you would expect of break dancing and not the best stage for it.
Then I saw a bunch of Australians pointing out that she's not the best break dancer in their country and that how she was decided to be the representative was rigged.
Like, it was so important for her to make this statement that she robbed someone else of their chance at the Olympics. I can't get behind that
Can we please talk about how they DESTROYED coral reefs in Tahiti for the surfing ?? We can NEVER get those back. We destroyed vital pieces of nature for NOTHING.
That’s so sad
That's terrible
Oh my god-
What??! That's awful...
OMG I hadn't heard of that 😭
the people who say Imane Khelif is a man for simply not looking hyper feminine enough when COMPETING AT A SPORT are the same people who will turn around and criticize the black women who wear full long acrylic nails and makeup while running like Sha’Carri Richardson.
You can never win with these people 😭
@@Shoulderpads-mcgeeit's just misogyny, whatever women do is wrong in every aspect as simple as a woman being confident in her looks=arrogant and woman being humble about her looks=nerd ,weird and insecure, women can't just exist 😢
This is exactly why that whole issue is not just about transphobia, it's about sexism and racism which a lot of people fail to look at. We can say that those 3 are linked too. They probably thought "what? Imane can punch her opponents very strongly? Must be because "he" is a "man"". And I remember seeing a video by one of my favourite creators who said the reason why JoKe Rowling said that Dumbledore is gay was probably because she was mistaking his black/brown girlfriend to be a man lol. Like someone tweeted, Rowling is probably one drink away from saying that only white women are allowed to be true women 😂
It’s the Y chromosome actually. Stop believing Twitter.
imane khelif isn't trans but she was born biologically male. it takes a two-second google search to confirm that her chromosome testing came back as XY-male. since she was born in algeria you can tell she's definitely NOT trans because they're very strict about that over there, but she's most likely intersex and presented as female at birth. either way, she clearly has an unfair biological advantage. cuz she's basically a man competing in women's sports. i mean one look is all it takes to realize that it has nothing to do with being feminine or masculine, if you're a man you're a fucking man. and if you're a woman you're a woman. period.
4:47 Didn’t Elon Musk mess with Twitter’s algorithm to make sure that his tweets always got seen? Some of those viewers might have viewed this tweet against their will.
It's also just wildly sexist too. Like Imane was TOO good of a boxer to be a woman? Like she had to be a man because she was too good of a boxer? 😂
It’s not about being too good a boxer, it’s that she does not perform femininity to the expectations of conservatives. She’s not pale, thin and dainty, therefore, she must be a man!
Omg I didn’t even think about it like this! Literally such a good take
+assuming a woman is a man because she isnt "feminine" enough
Fr and she went to the OLYMPICS for boxing. Literally the highest difficulty sports event. So OF COURSE she’s gonna be able to hit hard!!!
Its so stupid, because she's gone to the Olympics before and she didn't win 🙄
Australian here, the nation is pissed off at her because she took funding and opportunities from real breakdance groups including Australian First Nations peoples. There is a good reason people are getting so mad.
Yeah, like literally anyone could have been there and she took that opportonuty from a WHOLE COUNTRY of course theyre goinf to be infuriated
The nation? That’s a bit of a stretch…
Also how many indigenous people miss out on other sporting events? Heaps.
This is a distraction created by the media to distract from something else. Like Peter Dutton secretly going to Israel, now wanting to stop Palestinian refugees coming to Australia…
But yeah who cares ray gun is horrible! Shame 🙄
That one is painful to watch I'm not even australian.
In Australia voters and the gov (the coalition) have been constantly defunding and devaluing the arts. Hopefully there's a wake up call that we need funding for arts, particularly for regional communities and indigenous.
I really can't fathom doing a whole PhD in breakdancing and still knowing so little about your local breakdancing scene that you can't think of a single better person to get up there. Having so little respect for it as a physical art that you won't put up a better breakdancer to represent your entire country at the biggest sporting event in the world?? I have no objection to somebody being mid/bad at dancing but really enjoying it anyways, I'm not that hypocritical, but like, you're not qualified to lead the New York Ballet just because you can write a paper about Swan Lake.
I’m surprised that absolutely no one here seems to be mentioning the IOC’s refusal to disqualify Israel from the games even after they disqualified Russia for invading Ukraine. not only that but the commentators spoke negatively about the pro Palestine protestors who were outside and treated the competing Israeli athletes as poor victims who were being bullied. it really shows where the IOC’s priorities are depending on the skin color of the people who are being bombed and invaded
ngl disqualifying countries as a whole seems distasteful. It really just opens up wounds for discrimination, like what happened to a few Russian staff. What’s more is it raises those questions like with Israel regarding the whole war, and focus shifts less towards the sports and more on the politics of it, which sucks
If Israel had invaded without provocation, maybe. But they’re not comparable because like it or not, Hamas started this war and it would be a geopolitical mess to disqualify the country that was attacked and was responding the same way any other nation would if they were attacked in a similar way and so many civilians massacred.
@@chanashira8570 russia got disqualified for invading ukraine a few years ago, yet israel doesn't get the same treatment even though they've been invading palestine forrrrrr... the past 70 years?
it's giving "do you condemn Hamas?" type of energy lol
@@YouzaName79genocide isn’t politics. supporting human rights isn’t political. and its not distasteful nor does it suck to disqualify the country that was built on genocide for actively committing genocide. this take lacks so much empathy
@@labochstone period. 🙌
Breaking news: the Conservatives are ACTUALLY the ones who don’t know what a woman is. More at 11.
You expect 60 year old white men and gooners who don’t leave their mom’s basement to know what a woman is? They haven’t even touched one with consent.
Fork found in kitchen
Not only do they not know what a woman is but they also don't know what Christianity is because they confused the Feast of the Gods with The Last Supper.
Apparently you are the one who don’t know, just do your research, this person is genetically male, sywer syndrome give the wrong genitals at birth, the brain the body is male not female. Having genitals resembling female genitals at birth is not what make you a woman, your brain has a gender, your chromosomes indicate the gender of your brain. Read about the syndrome, males are born with female genitals and female with male genitals.
@@neoqwerty Most of them haven't read the Bible all the way through and just rely on authority figures to tell them what to believe.
11:17 Fun fact: Kim Yeji is also a mother of a six year old and she bring around a teddy bear that her daughter gave her in her bag. I just think that's SOOOOO CUTE 😍
Omg so adorable ❤
I was about to comment this! She was clutching it in her free hand while shooting! So wholesome 🥰
Aww!
I have massive respect for Imane Khelif for still shaking her Hungarian opponents hand after their match and after that same Hungarian boxer mocked her on instagram before the fight. Just she's way nicer than I would've been that's for damn sure.
the entire women’s artistic gymnastics event was a SHIT SHOW 😭 you didn’t even mention the judges deducting points from Simone Biles because she “didn’t salute them” after her beam routine (even though she VERY clearly did…). and then her iconic eye roll when she saw the score, plus the magnificently petty response of saluting them all the way off the the mat with a huge smile after her floor routine. she’s such a queen 💅🏼🐐💃🏻👑
Right! I saw a a guy come off the high bar and he saluted just like simone didnot directly to the judges and arms up for less than a second he was not punished or talked to in any way though
@@WovenWildernessWhich guy/event was this?
Never mind the fact that women are REQUIRED to wear leotards even though thry can be extremely uncomfortable…
Simon only saluted generally but she was also supposed to turn towards the judges and salute again, she didn't follow the rules and points were deducted accordingly, the rules also apply to her, no matter how good or famous she is 🤷🏻♀️
@@jangminoona"Simon" 😂
honestly I hope she sues the hell out of J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk and wins
she did start the lawsuit! 9:35 "...a complaint was filed on Friday with a special unit in the Paris prosecutor’s office for online harassment" according to her lawyer. her lawyer said that the lawsuit was filed against X because under French rules, it means that “prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages." Hoping it goes well!
Elon is the second richest person in the world, so I wish the best for her but it’s not looking good
@@ngweso He also has like...20 lawsuits on his shoulders from his crap with Twitter, and Tesla is dying, so I'm quietly hopeful lol
How? They said he is biologically male and he is biologically male.
@@ngwesohe has the money to make the lawsuit endless, how is Imane going to pay?
DeSantis claiming to care about funding for school lunches when his party isn't the one trying to give free lunches in school is rich, to say the least
This whole Imani situation disproves the transphobic argument perfectly. "Trans women shouldn't compete in women's sports because they have biological advantages." Point to cis woman with biological advantages but not because of her sex, there are millions of these same situations. I'm glad she is suing people, we cannot allow any woman who is strong or has any "masculine" traits be harassed like this. This is sexual harassment.
@@fccty1 Your logic on that makes no sense but at least you're almost self aware.
@@fccty1biological men don’t exist. Gender isn’t biological
Also like.... men are always praised for having biological advantages. Wtf.
Most female athletes have a biological advantage over other women. Itst why they're able to become Olympians and make world records. The anti-trans crowd doesn't want to think deeper than surface level is all. They'll attack athletes for not being the pinnacle of femininity or for having masculine features.
She makes total sense actually
Thank you for all the “even if she was transgender, she wouldn’t deserve this hate” because so many people wouldn’t defend someone in this position if they were trans.
Algerian here. It's so disgusting seeing the bullying against Imane. She filed a lawsuit against musk and rowling and the whole country is supporting her. 1, 2, 3, viva l'Algérie 🇩🇿🇩🇿❣️❣️
It's also such a taboo topic in algeria and the fact that her whole family had to hear about this is sad
@@Junebug2908 ikr! Her dad had to come out and show pictures of her as a child and in school. No one should be forced to disclose private pictures or information like that it's so sad
@@exo-l-ts9jf It's sad that he had to disclose that much of their personal lives like that but it's made me respect Imane and her family all the more, knowing how hard they've all worked for this (and that she's so loved and supported in her career by her family)!
Greetings from Egypt brothers and sisters ✨ we are supporting Algeria and Imane in this 🇪🇬
hi fellow citizen, it's frustrating indeed لوكان مشي شوية تعري عليهم
the Turkish shooter won silver as a part of a team. he's been to the Olympics several times and placed 13th overall. it was his teammate, a 24 year old woman, who won them the silver overall. she also shot with no gear and a hand in the pocket. it's a common stance. it's annoying that no one is giving her her flowers since she is the one who placed so high it brought his low score up enough for them to take silver. sigh.
Yeah it’s shady he didn’t even mention his female teammate and kept acting like only he deserved the medal
i literally saw other people claim that he actually was the best in one category and the other one was dragging him down xD. I need to rewatch the whole thing, its getting out of hand
What was the girl's name? I'm really curious
I’m kinda equally annoyed you never even bothered to mention her name in a comment talking about how you wish she could have gotten her flowers…not only weirdly ironic…but really would have helped those of us who missed out on that information.
@@ErezElene şevval ilayda tarhan
Imane was born and identified as female in a country where it is illegal to even test her to learn otherwise, and she has lived her entire life as female. Even if she was intersex, that's not trans and not against the rules and doesn't give her an advantage.
That and the entire Algerian female boxing team (coaches, assistants, doctors etc.) would have to be in on the conspiracy as well in a country where their culture and laws would give them every reason to not want to go along with it and squeal.
I saw conspiracy theories about the swimmers, too, that they were doping since certain swimmers had red faces, but having been a competitive swimmer for years, those red faces were ABSOLUTELY caused by the pool either being too warm or too shallow 😭
How does a shallow pool cause red faces?
ooooo i’m so curious, i understand how too warm would cause that, but how does it happen when it’s too shallow?
it’s so cool that you were a competitive swimmer!!
I thought that was photoediting by the CCP to cushion their pride? Or were they making them purpley? I forget now.
@griffinblades8475 shallower pools can cause slightly higher levels of resistance at that high of a level of competition, and can mess your dives and turns up if youre used to a certain depth, similar to how a vault in gymnastics being lower messes up your game, bc of muscle memory . Its not gonna bother your average Joe going for a swim, which is why people don't notice that it makes a difference, but I competed in pools which had much different depths when swimming, and we would have to get briefed on when to turn and where to aim when diving due to the discrepancies
@@arden_scott I answered in the comment above :)
the thing that really sucks about raygun is that she made breaking seem like a joke to the international spotlight that it got in the olympics. breaking's origin was a way for marginalized communities to express themselves and create art. They would get in trouble with the police for just finding places to break. and instead a white girl came in and made breaking a laughingstock to the world. the sport wasn't in the lineup for the 2028 olympics anyways but i actually doubt it will ever come back because of this.
She got zero points for her routines and was directly competing against competent people. Anyone who bothers to look into it for five seconds would realize something's gone horrendously wrong on the Australian side of things. Of course, when things go viral, people don't check into them, but on the other hand, since this makes her look even _worse_ than she already did, I think the information is more likely to get spread than it normally would.
All this to say, I hope things won't be as bad as they might otherwise be because of this asshole who thought they could be an Olympian.
This! It made me so sad :(
I was just super disgusted and outraged on Imane's behalf that literally millions of people were suddenly openly discussing her body and medical status like they had every right to. I would feel so violated. People are doing it right now still in these comments. It's truly unhinged. Leave her alone. You don't know her. You're not owed anything by her.
You are not your gouvernement
7:39 funniest part is that this was NOT even a depiction of the Last Supper as Christians claimed. It was instead referring to Dionysius' Feast as per the Greek Mythology... because of the origins of the Olympics?? How do people not talk about this
I know! That would have been the first thing I would be bringing up. It nullifies any further arguments!
Exactly! The dumb is palpable.🤦🏼♀️
Because Christians think the world revolves around them. Which is why they're unable to see the rest of the world and the people who don't follow it outside of their religious bubble.
As someone raised in the Bible belt, I wasn't even a little surprised to see this outrage. Lol
We don't exactly prioritize education here...
I saw ppl arguing against this for some reason, but I looked up the feast of Dionysus and got an exact replica of that photo
JK Rowling once said she’d happily go to jail for misgendering someone. For once, I want her to be happy.
foreshadowing
She's so misogynistic and sexist it's crazy ,plus transphobic homophobic, just a mess i am shocked that she's the same who wrote harry potter
Bahaha!!! I love that! I hope that people start trending that tweet!
Send this woman off to jail already and take away her phone and Internet connection, she's a fascist boomer going rogue on the internet at this point
@@alb91878she deleted that tweet iinm. Her lawyer must be working overtime
I’m sorry but the first positivity break isn’t actually that positive. The Turkish guy did win 2nd place but it was a team effort with Sevval Ilayda Tarhan but no one even knows about her.
“The thing is that Yusuf Dikech won Olympic silver not alone. It was a team match. His colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan shot shoulder to shoulder with him. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose and also with minimal crew.
The only difference is that he is 51 and she is 24. He started practicing professional shooting around the time she was first born.
Dikech is an excellent shooter and has plenty of medals in prestigious competitions, but he had never climbed the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and performed with him in the same team.”
Finally someone said her name. There are so many comments talking about this, but they did not give the name of his partner.
Yusuf was also not the iconic hero people praised him to be. he was in the Turkish military and committed war crimes against Kurdish people.
Y'all always find something to bark about 🙄
@@DrrGHp98 bruh they’re just giving clarity to something
at least 50 athletes tested positive for covid, including noah lyle, who ran his last race while actively symptomatic and collapsed afterward and had to be taken off the track in a wheelchair :/
Same for Tokyo's gold Antonella Palmisano Who was literally so destroyed during her race and then she discovered she had COVID...
naoh lyle also talked about how he was pressured by people around him to continue despite being infected and he shared that COVID was rampid in the Olympic village, but few athletes were allowed to be open about it.
@@onlylaboum A cousin of mine worked as a physiotherapist for an Italian athlete, and the athletes were under pressure not to mention the discomfort they experienced in the Olympic village in all respects, from accommodations, to food, to air conditioning, to the management of transportation to the places where the competitions were held...it was a race to the death especially for those who had to stay for several days. When some of the athletes through social media started to speak out, then the Italians did too, at first shyly and jokingly, then really complaining openly. However, as usual, the French covered everything by talking about “record attendance,” “record tickets,” and other things that I am sure the public liked, while the athletes were reduced to extras. The only person in Italy who spoke highly of her experience at the Olympic village was Sofia Raffaeli.
Lyle went crazy hard for the gold especially considering he has asthma!
As an Italian, I’ve spend the last week of the Olympics being incredibly ashamed of rooting for my country because we got internationally criticized for what Angela Carini did, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. She is a disgrace to her sport and sport in general.
All I can say is that it was clearly heavily influenced by politics. We are currently governed by far right extremists who refuse to declare themselves antifascists (they had the chance, the decide to specifically avoid that word) and perpetuate discriminatory behavior against all already discriminated people. The “rumors” of Imane Khelif being a trans woman were shared on twitter by Italian politicians in charge and later enabled a hate campaign against her. I REPEAT: THE HIGHEST OFFICES OF STATE SHARED FAKE NEWS AGAINST IMANE KHELIF MAKING CARINI LOOK LIKE THE POOR VICTIM OF AN UNFAIR FIGHT.
The day Angela Carini had that whole dramatic breakdown on the ring, Giorgia Meloni (Italy’s prime minister, far right and self declared nostalgic of the regime) was in Paris and they had a whole photoshoot ready of her hugging Angela and comforting her after the unfair fight.
Angela said “this is not fair, I’m not stopping here” and then a couple of days later announced she was “done with boxing”. Truly a circus.
Angela Carini, that same day, talked to journalists and praised Giorgia from head to toe.
Just a couple of days ago, it was revealed that Angela Carini is starring in a commercial promoting the construction of the Strait of Messina Bridge, a project promoted mainly by the Italian right wing.
So yeah, I really ended up hating everybody. Except for Imane. Love her. She deserves her gold medal and deserves to count her money after all the people she has sued 💕💕
oooh that bit about the commercial is very interesting, I haven't seen that link drawn anywhere else so far
Yeah, once I found out she was a cop in the national police I had real doubts about her choices in that fight. It stinks of someone who wants to run for office.
NOOOO MA CHE SCHIFO!! mamma mia mandiamo proprio il peggio del peggio alle olimpiadi. Che schifo di donna
Se si fosse ritirata perché davvero pensava che fosse troppo pericoloso per lei, avrebbe il mio pieno supporto. La salute prima di tutto.
Ma se ti metti a frignare tra le braccia della meloni e ad accusare la gente di non essere quello che è (riuscendo in un colpo solo ad offerendere le tutte donne, cis e trans, e le donne algerine, chapeaux davvero) per me puoi affogare nello stesso stretto di cui supporti la deturpazione 😊
@@glitch84-🫢😁amen 😗😌😅🤝🏾🤝🏾
Extremely out of topic but I really truly appreciate the fact that you pronounced Yusuf Dikeç's name as correctly as possible so thank you, that was refreshing to hear 🙏
It isn't breaking tradition to give out multiple medals. In the past, GOLD medals were given when there were issues with the competition. The fact that they didn't even let the US Gymnastics reps know about the appeal until 3 days after they should have, and didn't allow them time to disprove the false allegations about the jury being four seconds late, makes it feel very political. I am of the opinion they should have tied for Bronze to undo the Judge's eff ups!
I just LOVE how Snoop Dogg approaches everything with such a sense of wonder and enthusiasm, not giving a hoot whether it’s ‘cool’, or whether he is ‘supposed’ to enjoy this.
His inner child is shining through in the best way possible.
My favorites is when he's streaming LOL, my guy can't read the chat and someone forgets to turn off the stream
Snoop Dogg living his best life was my favorite part of the Olympics and is generally one of my favorite parts of this otherwise trash decade.
Equestrian Snoop was my favorite character 😊
he's definitely funny and interesting but I get the feeling a lot of yall dont know a lot about him... he has done and said a lot of sinister stuff throughout his career and life
@@botanicalitus4194 there is certainly a huge divide between ‘gangsta rap Snoop’ and ‘Media Personality Snoop, ft. Ms. Stewart’. Almost like it’s two different people sometimes.
Do you think one persona is fake, or it’s more a case of growing into a person with a whole different set of goals, values and interests?
Actually, if Sabrina Voinea's score (officially 13.700) had been assessed correctly in the first place, she would be third. The deduction for stepping with one foot outside of the mat is 0.1, which means that without the deduction her score would be 13.800, putting her above both Ana Barbosu (13.700) and Jordan Chiles (13.766) . She's the rightful owner of that medal and yet nobody's talking about her
Let’s also not forget the absolute disrespect towards Muslim women the Olympics committed by banning the hijab knowing damn well that, to Muslim women, its not a religious symbol or an accessory that can simply be taken off in public. For a country that is supposedly “progressive”, pretending that they dont know what the head covering entail is pretty telling about their intentions lol.
France is very Islamophobic and tried to ban / has banned hijabs in certain areas
I mean, it was in France. They're like the most islamophobic country
And taking off that hijab and being BROADCASTED all over tv? They might not be safe when they get back home.
France is not progressive at all, our government just likes to pretend in front of other countries. We were literally on the verge of giving a far right party the majority at the national assembly, which would have meant electing a far right politician as prime minister. They can lie all they want but in the end everyone knows France is a racist, intolerant country.
Apparently the hijab was only banned for French athletes and not for anyone else. Which is still messed up and unfair to any French hijabi
When I saw them call South Korea by North Korea’s name I knew this Olympics would have a few screws loose 💀
They WHAT
When?!
@@kaikiwwiduring the opening ceremony when the NOC delegations were on boats being introduced in the River Seine. a good time to plug Notdudol, a Korean community organization focused on ending the war and building Korean support. check them out ❤
@@kaikiwwi During the opening ceremony…South Korea is called “Republic of Korea” and North Korea is “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
Guess which one they stupidly used when South Korea’s team arrived… 😬
@@Aesos3429 ooooh yikes...
another thing about the iman situation that i feel like not enough people are talking about (outside of arab countries), is that it's not only sexist, implying there's a certain way women should look, but also a racist one. some of our women may not fit the very european/white image of what a woman looks like, but that does not make them any less women. to me she does not look like a man in the first place, i see women that look like her all the time in my day to day, and i can't help but think others struggle to see that because they're judging based on what they conceive to be a "normal looking" woman. if a woman is not "feminine" looking enough to them they must not be women at all to them. and this kinda thing has happened before to black women athletes (go figure..)
another really upsetting thing about the olympics is, despite russia and belarus being banned from participating because of their crimes against ukraine, israel was allowed to participate. it doesn't matter if they've committed countless WAR CRIMES against the people of gaza, cuz last time i checked they, well, were not white.
100% - transphobia/transmisogyny and white supremacy go together like peas in a pod. some people were saying that having visible hair on her knuckles was evidence that she was a man… like so painfully obvious these transphobes have probably never interacted with anyone who wasn’t white 😭
@@earthavi no its not transphobia its misogyny and racism
trans people stop stealing things from women including their oppression challenge
My siblings and I grew up break dancing... and It's an odd feeling. IMO a lot of break dancers grow up in the most impoverished communities and being able to reach the highest stage.. requires a lot of resources.
I fell off but I still watch my family and their crew constantly adapting; trying to even find even the dance space to practice in, while each of them juggling multiple jobs, and going to school. Heck, my brother even teaches break dancing at the local HS and college to make some extra cash. Travelling to a jam or to a breakdance cypher, tends to cost more than any of the earnings, if any.
Idk.. but to reiterate, a small part of me is glad Breakdancing was able to reach the olympics but it's sad that the most attention it has gotten, isn't the skill and technique.. but some white woman doing belly slides and a kangaroo thing. Hot take: while she's not actually terrible, It def leaned more into interpretive dancing. It shows that a bit of privilege may not get you a gold medal, but it can take you to the world stage, over the dozens of amazing breakdancers, I've met in my life.
Sorry for the rant.
Please don't be sorry for the rant. I hope your family gets to continue their passion as long as they want/can. I definitely agree with what youre saying here about Raygun.
Yeah I hate being a party pooper who "hates fun", but it definitely felt very dystopian seeing a white woman basically come onto the Olympics stage as a joke. She can dance and have fun, but not at the cost of occupying someone else's deserving spot while clearly pulling strings behind the scenes. Especially with this year being the breakdancing category's debut, most people aren't going to see the actual performances & won't take it seriously.
i watched the entire women's breaking competition and there were so many skilled athletes and so many crazy routines yet everyone is just focused on making fun of the worst one in the competition. it's sad
Don't be sorry. Im angry without cultural connections. I can't imagine how it's feel having deep ties to the art. I hope peoples reaction and invalidating of her participation shows how much respect and awe there exists for it ❤️
Everyone, Algerian people standed behind Imane's back since the begging, so please anyone who thought that her life was in danger in her country because of the rumors.. don't ! Algeria knows its champion well and she was and is and will be safe whatever people said or will say about her. Actually, The whole arab countries were supportive for Imane since the controversy started. We all defended and fought for her.
For people who are confused because she is a woman but she doesn't wear hijab, that's because we don't really force women to wear hijab and hijabless women exist in the arab countries.
D'Angelo, Muslim hijabi here - forgot to mention the hijab ban and the woman who was given the last gold medal of the Olympics wore hijab - the irony. Muslims were celebrating everywhere😂
I'm French, at least abroad you escaped the social, economic and generally political unrest this whole mess created.
Many uni students were ejected from their appartements to home the tourists, cleaning la Seine cost 1 billion and a half of euro which is extremely expensive and la Seine is still dirty (you can look up online the batshit crazy stuff found in it it is awful). The metro price tickets skyrocketed and is unlikely to lower for a long time, homeless people were moved out of Paris even those who had a job. They asked retired people to volunteer for security during the event, they had a contract with Coca Cola which tried to greenwash their participation but most bottles sold or distributed during the games were not recycled and not recyclable. Outside of the restaurants were surrounded by barriers making people drinking people feel like they were in a zoo. They also closed many areas for cars which made a big mess for people working in those areas.
The opening ceremony scene was based on Dionysos' representations and not the last supper. The artist who made the ceremony said it publicly.
Anyways, I'm over with those games.
If I remember correctly (at least during my lifetime) there has never been a city that actually benefited from it being held there.
@@SoManyRandomRamblings well, many people were saying it was going to attract tourists as if there are not enough tourists in Paris all year long....
@@mrssherlockasy4236 there's lots of things people claim while gaslighting....
@@mrssherlockasy4236 Also Paris is wayyy to small like why here...
That's exactly why no one wants to host the olympics anymore. All it does in raise prices for the locals
Truly hoping Imane Khelif gets all of Elon, Logan, and JK’s money
Probably elons sinces his going broke
yeah but more realistically i hope they face jail time for their false allegations and imane gets some gorgeous gorgeous checks
How? They said he is male, and biologically that’s true, so how?
That'll happen when I'm dead, inject me with some cheese 😏
@Devi_Seona biologically, physically, socially, and objectively that is NOT true 😂😂😂 It will be so easy to prove malicious intent, too.
Great report but you forgot
- Triathlon swimmers exposed to dangerous levels of E.coli
- The beds, lack of AC, lack of protein for athletes
- Announced South Korea as North Korea
Needless to say your thesis is correct 😅
This dropped the MINUTE i finished yesterday's video. I'm so blessed 🥲
No literally me just this second
i try not to let internet bullshit get to me, but as an arab woman with pcos and naturally higher testosterone level than the "average" woman, seeing the way people went after Imane really got my blood boiling. there's no one right way to be a woman, and there's also no one right way to be biologically female. it doesn't matter what your biological gender is, hormones and features can fluctuate. so often WOC are dismissed and seen as "mannish". people have said the same bullshit about serena williams and simone biles. it's just so disheartening to see.
Right?! I've been mocked and been called half-wolf because my body hair due to pcos. I would rather people think I'm trans but, still, why do people expect women to fit in a tiny box? They know nothing of biology, the idiots.
Not related to Imane who isn't transgender, i do take issue with what would otherwise be a fair statement "there is no one right way to be a woman' when within the confines/ecosystem/paradigm of sport it actually matters (biologically). Exhibiting XY chromosome traits and the physiology that comes with that should prevent that person from competing in the XX division of sports. Gender actually plays a huge role in that regard. Though there are plenty of examples where female identifying persons have beat out male identifying persons (aw yeah Billie Jean). But otherwise, male physiology matters where strength and overall power matters. Otherwise i'm not here to parse the rest of your statement(s) because, yep, true story, regardless of chromosomes (and that includes intersex persons), you can be whomever the hell you want to be and don't need permission to identify with what feels right for you. (and deserve rights and laws that protect you)
This sucks.
I think it used to be a lot more common to be what society terms ‘masculine’ and still be a woman.
Unfortunately, now that There are no facts taken into consideration at all, anyone can be mistaken for anyone at any time.
So to say that you angry that she was mistaken for being trans
But then also 100% support the trans movement
Makes no sense
There’s no movement in history that’s supplanted ‘feminine’ for ‘female’ the way this movement does.
Know why? They don’t get it. Guess why that is?
@@LauraRamirez-zd3ilmy issue with this is we don't care or control for any other factors that can contribute to the same disparity or even worse in most of these scenarios
@@LauraRamirez-zd3il "The XX division of sports"
You mean the women's division, which forcibly ripped out all trans women after a politically manufactured moral panic. Just a few years ago feminism was about abolition of gender segregation, and then cis women discovered that transmisogyny allowed them the chance to be the oppressor.
Fun fact: As a french person, i expected the Olympics to be a disaster. My entire family knew it would be a disaster on the administrational side, talking in disbelief about how ridiculous it was to make the athletes swim in the Seine river.
But dear god it got so so much worse than i thought. Never underestimate how stupid people can be.
Me walking into the face card Olympics but D’Angelo is my opponent 😭😭😭
We're all done 😭 his face card NEVER declines 🙏🏻🙏🏻
They’d instantly DQ him for being too good at his craft like they tried to do Simone a couple years ago.
I was just thinking this!!! That thumbnail knocked me out
REAL 😭😭😭
We’re done for
People so mad about the drag queens when it wasnt even based on The Last Supper. It was based on the 17th century painting The Feast of the Gods by Dutch artist Jan Harmensz van Bijlert. Because. It was the Olympics
Even if it was, the Last Supper is an italian piece of art done by Leonardo da Vinci, it's none of any yankee business what we southern europeans do with the imagery of it.
@@DeadKraken leonardo who was queer so like...even if it had been the last supper why not?
@@DeadKraken WHAT!? The Americans telling people in different continents how they should behave? Preposterous!
@@DeadKrakenLiterally just a piece of art made from someone’s imagination but “Christians” idolize it like if it’s a literal photograph of the moment.
Ty! Came to the comments to mention the same.
4:30 If Elon Musk agrees with you, you know you're on the wrong side of the debate.
Gross transphobia aside, people gotta understand that in any competition in almost any field, people will never be truly equal. A chess competition may not be equal bc one of the contestants is autistic and therefore has better memorizing patterns. A kids' drawing competition may not be equal because a rich kid took drawing classes and the poor kid didn't. A sports competition may not be equal because it takes place in summer and a Ghanaian will perform better in extreme heat than a Finn. Let professionals themselves decide whether they feel fair competing against someone - with NO takebacks.
Oh, Finns can deal with heat. Remember that they LOVE their saunas and those get scorching hot.
ikr… what about that very tall woman in the china’s basketball team (for example). No mention about unfairness here😀and it’s basically the same thing
Most men are stronger than most women. That is a fact.
@@helenar2509You can't possibly compare being tall to being born of the opposite gender. I'm no transphobic but c'mon, the sports are seperated man and woman for a reason.
@@flor9345and they're still separated.
Even if Imane Khelif has high testosterone for a woman, she's not the only person in the Olympics with a genetic advantage. The whole Olympics is basically a showcase of various genetic freaks (I mean this as a compliment) who have therefore been able to achieve fantastically highly in their fields. Like Michael Phelps had basically the ideal swimmer's body, down to his ankles being double-jointed and his armspan being wider than average, therefore making his butterfly stroke more efficient than others'. If we are going to exclude anyone who has genetic traits that give them an advantage in their sport, there will basically be no Olympians left. You can see each sport has a particular body type!!!
Yeah OK sure but you still have to compete fairly. If your chromosomes don't match your opponents chromosomes you should not be fighting. XY chromosome is not female XX is
@@poshdelux chromosomes are an instruction for your body to develop certain traits, as DNA is a blueprint, but they don't always result in the "typical" expected body type. There are many people who live their lives as cisgender and perisex, and only find out much later on that their chromosomes are actually those of the opposite sex.
And, once undergoing years of HRT, trans people are hormonally indistinguishable from cis people, and in terms of physical competition are generally on the same level as a cis person of a similar height + weight who's done the same amount of training as them.
Chromosomes are a part of genetics, and such instruct how the body may develop, but are insignificant when actually measuring people's lived realities.
Do you know your chromosomes? Have you had them tested?
@@poshdelux you do know that xx & xy are not the only sex chromosome patterns there is, right?
@@fluffacep its like saying hormonally women are no different from chickens so its an equal fights. Fighting someone that is biologically male as a woman that have the same skill sets and experience, biological male/trans woman would win. She may be a woman, but maybe think abt how she and the other participant got disqualified in the prev competition. Maybe shes intersex but never knew about it? Woman genitalia, but male like body. Who knows.
Im a woman, it is disgusting what you guys enable in sports. Killing and disrespecting womens sports, respect which women have fought for decades.
Just because someone is taking hormones doesnt make them equally weak as me.
@@lakshyKyeah, 2 chromosomes aren't even the max amount of sex chromosomes a person can have!
This is a side note but about the Olympian housing situation. A couple of months ago (at least 3 or more), on Tiktok a lot of Parisians were saying that the government was kicking out students to make room for tourists and potentially Olympic village only for the accommodations to be TERRIBLE. Imagine being kicked out of your student housing for Olympians who’d rather sleep on the sidewalk and it’s all the blame of your government; smh! 🤦🏾♀️
Edit/note: I meant that it must be horrible to be kicked out of your housing and watch the olympians suffer in their housing too (Olympians weren’t the cause of their kick out directly but the tourism aspect was). Lose-lose-lose situation considering the reports of how tourists were treated in Paris as well (plus how Parisian’s also said on TikTok that they were gonna treat ppl badly).
I'm pretty sure the CROUS housing was to house staff and security during the olympics, athletes stayed at new buildings 🤷
Athletes were in brand new buildings. You usually don’t stay in your student residence in the summer. The ones who do are the ones from overseas who come there to study for cheap and whose parents don’t pay taxes in the EU.
It's also kinda important to note that, before the fight against Khelif, people in Italy (aka the far right) were already saying that poor Carini was going to have to fight a man and how unfair it was (if I'm remembering correctly). What Carini did on the day of the fight was just the icing on the cake. The Italian conservatives took her statements and just made things much worse, and then it somehow reached the rest of the world. The whole hate campaign was political from the very beginning.
7:30 its even better because it *isn't* representing the last supper. Its supposed to be a different story in greek mythology because its the OLYMPICS?
Yeah but the main person in the middle referred to themself as a god on their instagram story
@@kennedysvsp9824okay and
@@kennedysvsp9824They’re representing Dionysus, who is a god and is the god of wine in Greek mythos
Exactly!! This was just another example of white conservatives making everything about themselves.
@@kennedysvsp9824there are so many gods in Greek mythology? saying ‘a god’ and not just ‘God’ should already have signaled to you they were not talking about figures in judeo-christianity
All this coming from the "We CaN aLwAyS tElL" crowd. Clearly you can't fucking always tell.
17:17 ON RAYGUN: The situation is much worse than even discussed here. She apparently was calculated in what she was doing from the start as she has former academic"research" about white folks' ability to navigate "hip-hop culture & spaces'" by utilizing their privilege, especially in academic spaces, to be able to appear more legitimate. She herself was a long time ballroom & jazz dancer and only decided to learn breaking when it was announced as an Olympic event because she was bitter about ballroom being rejected as a potential event (it is considered too dated, though she did say at one point too that she decided to learn breaking to make sure Australia didn't look bad...).
There's also reports that she also only qualified because she was able to afford to travel to multiple events (it took three for her to qualify) & pay the fees for competing, while she funded her own peers (academics & former ball room dancers new to breaking) in doing so as well while not actually connecting with the already existing breaking communities in Australia. The judges deciding who qualified in Australia also knew her personally because the IOC had selected the WDSF to be the judges of who qualified, and those judges in Australia were primarily ballroom judges & academics. So while I dont necessarily agree with the wording/energy, the commenter isn't completely wrong: she did purposely take the place of skilled people in an almost social experiment trying to back up her research.
@@user-quackers Colleen Ballinger? 😏
THIS PART
This is just false
Literal videos of her breakdancing as far back as 2012..
There's a lot of speculation and half-truth in your narrative. Raygun's research was on bgirls and navigating hiphop as a woman, specifically, hence why she had local support and wasn't considered a problematic person pre-olympics. There's no proof it was a 'social experiement' for research, either, we really don't know what she was thinking. One of the best theories I saw was that she may have seriously been trying to innovate with interpretive dance, but simply lacked the talent to pull it off.
The thing with boxer Imane Khelif that many people are forgetting is that in Algeria being Trans is illegal and the punishment is jail as well as fines. Algeria is very anti LGBTQ which is why so many death threats have been happening and why she has been so strong in saying she isn't trans, not being outraged would culturally at home be seen as a huge insult to the entire country. Having one of their athletes being accused of being Trans is a huge insult to them.
Being in the LGBTQ community in Algeria can be a death sentence for many, it's really sad.
To be clear Imane Khelif is a cis woman from birth. This shouldn't even be happening, but the politics and culture in her country adds extra layers to it.
I personally support and am part of the LGBTQ community but I live in a country where it is safe to be out and again that has nothing to do with her because she should have never been accused of being Trans.
Search for and read the article 'le point was devastated'. You have been misled and lied to by the left wing media and activists into having the 'right' opinion.
It's difficult to find articles reporting the other side because it doesnt fit the mainstream activist narrative, but if you're intellectually honest you will read this article and see.
While your overall comment is true, there are a couple things that are very important to mention. Imane has not been “so strong” about saying she’s not trans; she’s basically never mentioned it at all, and the vast, vast majority of Algeria supports Imane and doesn’t believe the transvestigation. Most Algerians I’ve heard from are kind of laughing at it and/or considering it too ridiculous to take seriously. The death threats were not coming from transphobic Algerians, it was from transphobic Westerners.
Why has the country with more strict anti-LGBT laws been way more supportive and accepting of this woman not conforming to stereotypical roles than people in places like the UK and the US? Part of it is because she’s been a famous and successful boxer representing her country proudly for years already, and yes, may or may not have been as supported by her country if she was less accomplished, but part of it is also Islamophobia and racism.
Women of color are way more likely to be the victims of “transvestigator” conspiracies (Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Zendaya have all gotten this treatment), especially when they’re successful and visible in a place that people subconsciously assume would (or should) be held by a white person. That’s a big part of why the hate against Imane was so strong among white, right-wing western circles (the fact that her beating a white woman “sparked” this was both very telling and very familiar) and basically nonexistent among actual Algerians.
@@zaynab-to-aeven Adriana Lima gets trans allegations all the time. It’s hilarious, any person they feel have slightly muscular features = trans and Vice versa.
@@Sizhui-mg6hc yep, nothing’s gonna make anyone exempt from the transvestigations if they decide they don’t like you. *Kyle Rittenhouse,* of all people, was accused en masse of being trans when offhandedly mentioning that he MIGHT not vote for Trump over his position on guns.
Imane’s story is incredible. People were so horrible to her, and yet she still found the strength to keep going and kick ass. I hope she gets every sponsorship and takes Musky to the cleaners.
On a semi-related note, Janjaem Suwannapheng (another boxer from Thailand who also got accused of being transgender), revealed in a talk show that they “checked” her gender by looking at her vagina. Yes. LOOKING at her vagina. She said that she was asked to go into a separate room with 2 female staffs and was asked to take her pants off and sit down on a chair, so the staffs can take a good look. Are we actually in 2024 cuz there has to be a less barbaric way to do this???? Like idk maybe use ultrasound or smth??????
Or believing athletes, or doing blood tests (which would dq a lot of cis women for having naturally high testosterone but all these people upset about trans people competing also hate women, so it wouldn’t matter to them) it’s not like the penis does the boxing. Transphobes are perverts and idiots.
Oh my god. That’s so dehumanizing and humiliating! Why tf was something like that even allowed??
"Like idk maybe use ultrasound or smth??????" Or maybe not use something at all. Like, it's only the women's category that sees these invasive, embarrassing, not conclusive, and quite often wrong gender-tests.
Hormonal tests are also problematic, because of how testosterone is a hormone that varies stark in the amount measured based on the time of day at which the bloodsample was taken (this is true for both men and women by the way), but in women who experience a period will also fluctuate based on the time in their cycle the bloodsample get's taken.
Which is why that as well is so problematic.
The weird thing is: we have a very good way of checking if someone is eligible to participate. We call them statistics, game results, championships won... That kind of thing.
But the thing you mentioned is exactly what gender-critical feminists, who love to claim they are in favor of protecting women, just like some sporting unions claim they are are now heavily supporting: the idea that the protection of women from transwomen is best served by shoving a speculum inside of them...
And that's why I am saying for a couple of years now that transphobia is never limited to trans-women. The mere idea that there needs to be a very strict definition of femininity used to exclude anyone who by whatever standard doesn't adhere to it, will hurt, and has provably hurt cis-women.
But gender-critical feminists don't care, they really don't care. And the clearest example of that was given by Rowling. It's just racism and sexism, for her explicitly showing that Western beauty standards are the only allowed and correct one.
And even then, people like Rowling will be capable of singling out a cis-women not adhering to those standards enough.
@@luv4tajhanb Because of misogyny, and the misplaced idea that you can judge femininity or womanhood by the neonatal state of the vagina.
A Dutch slogan-company that makes thought-provoking posters once framed it like this: "Fairness in sports - When they start excluding men for being not manly enough."
Yes I agree, they can at the very least provide ultrasound test, as someone who had gone breast cyst removal surgery it's very uncomfortable every time I have to undress to get examined in front of strangers. I can't imagine how worse would it feel for strangers to see your privates, and it wasn't even a life and death situation, just no.
Can we take a moment to actually remember that the Olympics were made by the Greeks, where EVERYONE could participate and LITERAL WARS stopped since the Olympics were basically a moment of PEACE?! I'm so done honestly.
The ancient Olympics were pretty awesome but it's false to say that everyone could compete (or even watch).
@@GlassesBooksCookies touché, but except from the obvious and blatant discrimination against women, wars would actually stop, though you are still VERY CORRECT
Let's also remember the Greeks were very very gay
@@Hyster1cal1nsan1ty
No, wars wouldn't stop. They just agreed not to attack the city where the games were held for the duration, or athletes and visitors traveling to and from there. There was simply no way you could keep those ancient Greeks from fighting wars all the damn time, especially against each other.
@@luckas221a hi hi ! This is actually a general misrepresentation! Homosexual relations between two adult men were heavily stigmatized and shamed! They did a LOTTTTTTT of pederasty but idk if that's something to venerate! The "gay" in ancient Greece (at least if we're discussing the homosexual men) was fucking little boys! If you were fucking an adult man as an adult man it was a method of intimidation and if you actually enjoyed it that's so weird bro
Imane Khelif comes from a country in which gender transition is illegal. I’m glad she’s suing for the slander and hate sent her way based off misinformation.
having Gojira open up the games was an unparalleled moment of importance for Metal and it's significance as an artform, so I'm walking away happy.
Absolutely it was the highlight of the opening for me
Absolute fire. 🔥
That was my favorite part of the opening ceremony.
Can't believe they got away with that tbh considering just three Olympics ago the opening ceremony were glazing Queen Elizabeth
Gojira bringing back the satanic panic truly hilarious to watch conservative twitter get mad
Honestly fair. Us french have been complaining about the olympics since it was announced to take place in Paris. So here is a quick recap of why:
-they kicked out all uni students in social housing to fit in staff for the olympics instead as well as police and policemen complained about how much their little cramped room sucked. Like yeah dude. But somehow nobody listened to students when they were the ones complaining.
-they also kicked out all the homeless as well which in Paris is a whole lot of people!
-don't get me started on the "swiming in the Seine" thing. Fucking stupid and stupidly expensive. So much so that we were debating if we should all agree on a date to take a shit in the Seine. But i think that was cancelled.
-and while they were spending MORE THAN ONE BILLION EUROS to clean up the Seine people in Mayotte dont have access to clean water and people in Guadeloupe and Martinique suffer from they water supplies being cut off regularly.
-also our political landscape changed drastically right before the beginning of the olympics and we were about to elect a new prime minister and secure more seats on the Left and the president was basically like yeah but how about a time out just until the end of the olympics. And after it was over he's saying yeah but i like the way it is now i don't want to change it even if you guys clearly just voted for a more left leaning government, i don't agree so i'm just going to ignore you.
Totalitarian bullshit.
God my city is hosting the Olympics in 2032 and I am NOT looking forward to it!
I really like the positive breaks, i hope you keep it for other types of videos too, it was refreshing
I couldn't care less about sports and have never paid attention to boxing before but the entire Imane Khelif hate campaign was so insane and baseless I started reading up everything about the "issue" and defended her everytime, like my life depended on it. Women stick up for women.
@@jokingpredator8383 the "tests" as well as the results were undisclosed. They never revealed the actual results nor any evidence backing it. The accusations came from the top guy in the IBA, an organization that has long been discredited for bias and corruption and one that the International Olympic Committee doesn't recognize. The IOC also did tests, all of which Imane passed so yeah, the accusations were baseless.
@@jokingpredator8383 the IBA never actually disclosed what tests imane "failed" or any evidence backing this result. the only information given by the IBA was that imane had male chromosomes which was already disputed by the International Olympic Committee due to it being untrue. the IBA has also long been discredited due to their long track record of bias and corruption.
also, Imane did say the "results" were bs in multiple interviews. she specifically said that she is a woman, that she was born a girl, has trained and fought as a girl, and will always be a woman.
@@jokingpredator8383 the "tests" as well as the results were undisclosed. They never revealed the actual results nor any evidence backing it. The accusations came from the top guy in the IBA, an organization that has long been discredited for bias and corruption and one that the International Olympic Committee doesn't recognize. The IOC also did tests, all of which Imane passed so yeah, the accusations were baseless.
@jokingpredator8383 nope, they said they did tests on here hormones. Women also produce testosterone, and many other women also failed it and had to have reevaluations done.
@@jokingpredator8383 Do you think only that one corrupt and disgraced organization did any tests? And how can you fight a test result when it isn't even known what tests were done, what the results were, or who did them? As an amateur athlete, I wouldn't want to pick a fight with the Russian mafia either.
“Maybe ill be back in 24 hours maybe ill be back in 24 months”- D’Angelo 24 hours ago lol he knew he’d be back today
Yeah, he made a community post saying he’d probably post three days in a row
omg Kim Yeji also had her daughter's little stuffed elephant toy (like a little plush elephant character with a baby blanket attached, like that style) clipped to her belt and hanging off the side. so her badass silhouette had her daughter's toy too it was so cute
The Olympic committee made up ways of implementing rules this year just to hurt the spirit of competition. Speaking as an Indian, our wrestling athlete VInesh Phogat qualified and won her semi-final match-up while being under the weight limit for her category. But during the final weigh-in, she was 100 g (0.22 pounds) over the limit despite her best efforts. So the committee decided to retroactively take away her silver medal and disqualify her from competing for any other medal. It was heartbreaking to follow because many people were aware of her story and had seen her come close to clinching a medal in the previous Olympics she participated in. The latest update I remember is that the IOC is not budging on the ruling but the final verdict hasn't been announced yet. Vinesh announced her retirement in a heartfelt statement after this debacle and it was such a shame how her final Olympics played out.
I remember watching the discussion on TikTok and thinking “how tf did she come to the conclusion that Khelif was a man?”
Perhaps because she failed a gender eligibility test for the 2023 World Championship? I believe it implies either higher testosterone levels than are allowed or a chromosome test, I do not know which
It’s so tiring seeing ethnic women constantly being viewed as masculine or ridiculed for not having “feminine enough traits”
DeSantis claiming they're trying to "strip money from schools", kinda like what ... The no child left behind act? Or reducing revenue from taxes, particularly those reserved for education? Even IF that claim was true, the hypocrisy is off the charts.
'Cause as we all know, conservatives have never taken any money or resources from schools ever, including Ronnie.
Desantis underfunds schools in order to keep florida without an income tax, takes credit for the lack of income tax, and blames everyone else for the problems that inevitably arise when you don’t have money to fund schools, welfare, or infrastructure. He’s just talking out of his ass.
there was a convicted child r-- competing but everyone is busy transvestigating 🙄
as an italian trans person I'm glad most people recognize what happened to Imane is horrible and unfair
but I know that it is mostly because she isn't in fact trans
this proves what we have been saying for years, that cis people who dont follow gender stereotypes are also at risk of transphobia and violence
but they get more empathy because "it was all a mistake"
I truly don't get the last supper thing. The artistic director said it was actually inspired by the feast of the gods, which I believe considering that that painting has a Bacchus with grape clusters at the forefront and so did the performance. The numbers of people present is also closer to the feast than the last supper, and the table drapes match with the feast's table whereas they don't with the last supper's. Even if it were, though, what's the complaint? That they made DaVinci fruity? I have bad news for them about like 90% of Renaissance painters.
It makes much more sense when you realize that it was just the Americans complaining that people in a different continent were not behaving exactly like they wanted them to.
I mean do the french not have their own culture?? Do they have to misrepresent greek culture...
@@ainsmetabolismishmmm5757 Are you mad because they '"misrepresented"' Greek culture at the Olympics- a Greek invention- or that they looked gay while doing it- also a common theme in Greek culture? Which part of this homage was ""misrepresented?"" If it hadn't been drag queens doing it, would it still have bothered you? Maybe think on that last thought for awhile, might do you some good
Ugh I’m so sick of jk Joanne. Terfism ruins whatever it touches
LOVED this video, but you didn't even mention the organization FIASCO of it all lmao
Please do a part 2 including that!!
Here are some stuff you can look for:
- The cardboard beds led delegations to buy mattresses for their athletes/had them bringing their own
- They forgot to pick up the skaters, who had to go back to the olympic village on their skates then take a cab (Rayssa Leal, Paris bronze medalist, talked about it on her IG stories)
- The first few days, buses didn't have air conditioning and couldn't open the windows during SUMMER, plus they would be late to pick them up (confirmed by Brazilian table tennis player Bruna Takahashi on her ig stories, but other ppl said it as well)
- Pools weren't as deep as they should've been
- Food was terrible and they wasn't enough protein
- Seine River was dirty and athletes got hospitalized (Claire Michel and Daniel Wiffen)
Had this been an Asian, African or Latin American country, everyone would've said it was terrible and they should never host again, let's be honest
PS: US basketball team stayed in a 5 star hotel - which I think should be prohibited for all athletes to avoid unbalanced competitions. If it's good enough for one, should be good enough for all. Exceptions should only be made for individual athletes with children.
The rabid transphobia from Rowling, Musk, Richard Dawkins, the Paul brothers, Piers Morgan and others honestly ruined the games for me. I usually really enjoy the Olympics but I was horrified by the amount of anti-LGBT hatred this year
I rub my orb as I ask transphobes, "Is there a 'man' in the room with us? Where?"
hahaha, not me thinking you ment that orb that Trump and his Saudi friends fondled when he was in Saudi Arabia!
Imane Khelif is a class act and I respect the hell out of her. She responded in the press with grace and perspective while still filing lawsuits against people who deserve to be sued for recklessly spreading dangerous rhetoric and misinformation. We stan.
Imagine my SHOCK when I heard that Elon Musk was promoting misinformation on Twitter. 🙄
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Speaking of positive things that marked these Olympics for me - one of the highlights:
Serbian basketball team getting the bronze in the morning, immediately going to a Serbian-style bar somewhere in Paris, drinking, celebrating and singing there, coming to the medal ceremony absolutely HAMMERED to the point they were leaning and stumbling on the podium and constantly laughing at eachother, then going back to Serbia where they continued celebrating in different ways. Team captain was most recently seen laying on the hood of (his?) car positively drunk after exiting a club LMAOO
Balkan brte
@@karcavida3250 Gospoda kao takva
love that for them
@@CocoRegardless. Joker was more happy about winning the Bronze than winning the NBA Title 😂😂😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
I’m Australian and so many of us were embarrassed when the break dancer ray gun went to the Olympics.
It was so horrible what kaliff went through
d'angelo you should be in attendance at the 2028 olympics
My favourite part of this years Olympics was Henrik "The Muffin Man" Christiansen who ate a little too many chocolate muffins he so loved and got popular for, that he finished dead last in swimming. He was having the time of his life with those muffins and I loved all the tiktoks that were trying to decipher the recipe for the muffin.
omg i was following this saga but i didnt realise he came last! Surely it couldnt have been because of the muffins tho
Your uploads have been so consistent I’m loving it
I hope Imane sues Musk and Rowling and gets something out of it. My mom was insufferable about this. She briefly accepted that Imane is a woman (after I corrected her) but then got all wishy-washy "I don't know, it's hard to tell." When I told it's illegal to be trans in Algeria, she talks about how they'd get killed in countries like Algeria that make it illegal to be gay/trans, completely missing the point. It's hard to tell if she's insane or fucking with me.
I'm algerian and she is 100% a cis woman, it's not even close here to trans if the government doesn't put u in jail for life the ppl will kill u
It's like suicide
Cognative dissonance, decades of consuming proaganda leaves people with 0 critical thinking or ability contextualise anything
No because I just had to listen to a sermon today where the pastor brought up Imane and referred to her as "he", so I checked a couple of sources(I already knew the guy was wrong, I just wanted more info) and brought it up with my dad and he basically told me that people can lie(as in, Imane and everyone else could potentially be lying about her being cis) so I need to be careful where I get my sources from. ???????
@@whyisyoutubeshowinghandles I don't mean to be rude, but the way you wrote this comment makes it hard to tell if you're mocking me or not.
@@lanagomisc.6005 I didn't consider that, I'm sorry! That wasn't my intention at all, your story just reminded me of what happened and I got a little heated.
As an Australian, we don’t claim Raygun.
There’s so much focus on her performance that everyone is forgetting she definitely manipulated things to get where she did. We have genuinely talented and passionate dancers and she was a joker who cheated her way to the olympics.
She deserves whatever she gets at this point.
Fucking chill.
This kinda thing happend in the Olympics fairly frequently. Idk why this case in paticular has caught so much anger when there has been cases of people that only learned how to swim a year ago competing in swimming.
And people have loved them
ive binged a ton of your content this passed a couple of days while i do homework, its very entertaining i love your stuff keep it up
The IOC needs to be investigated heavily. There’s a lot of incompetence, yes but so much corruption as well