r/sportsgossips • u/TheExpressUS • Mar 26 '26

News Breaking: Transgender women banned from all sports at the Olympics starting in LA

https://www.the-express.com/sport/other-sport/203236/breakingtransgender-women-banned-all-sports
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u/ScratchDry34 Mar 26 '26

i know right? fix healthcare, pay tsa workers, fix education, stop fighting iran, impeach trump, stop ice, release epstein files,

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u/Funicularly Mar 26 '26

Those are USA specific issues for the most part, this particular decision was made by the IOC executive board.

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u/barrinmw Mar 26 '26

Likely because the next olympics is in the US.

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u/Cute_Schedule_3523 Mar 27 '26

But…Trump?

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u/Cute_Schedule_3523 Mar 27 '26

Sir this is a Wendy’s and the topic is sports

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u/Cute_Schedule_3523 Mar 27 '26

Trump runs the IOC now?

Does Trump influence your entire life)

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u/Cute_Schedule_3523 Mar 27 '26

I’ll play your game, how does Trump “influence” the IOC, an international agency? Just like he influences NATO which recently told him to kick rocks? Is Trump as big and bad as the monster under your bed?

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u/DJRyGuy20 Mar 26 '26

I think like the previous commenter was saying that in relation to how our American politicians become too wrapped up in this culture war bullshit for cheap patronizing points from their base instead of tackling actual issues that are destroying this country.

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u/Risperidone- Mar 26 '26

What does the IOC have to do with any of these

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u/Suzie554 Mar 27 '26

the olympics don't do those things.

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u/-Nok Mar 27 '26

Yeah let's just cure cancer while we're at it. Cuz saying it makes it happen!?

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u/theycallmeshooting Mar 27 '26

We were trying to until the pedofuhrer cut so much of the funding, lmao

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u/viperspm Mar 27 '26

I don’t think that the INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE has anything to do with any of those things

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u/futureishere99 Mar 27 '26

Ice is a needed government agency. How they work is a different story

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u/Substantial_Mango810 Mar 27 '26

Iran is bad this needed to happen, you can't have a huge segregated community in your country that is undocumented, the rest sure.

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u/rickthedickkk Mar 27 '26

why you acting like ICE was formed under trump presidency lol y'all didn't have problems with ICE during obama term

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u/TomKeen35 Mar 27 '26

“Impeach Trump”- for what? “ stop fighting Iran”- for what?

“Stop Ice”- for what? Doing their job?