Laurel Hubbard’s inclusion in the New Zealand team for the Tokyo Olympics has been met with encouragement and diplomacy from Australia’s weightlifters, who say she is simply another competitor regardless of the debate about her eligibility., with the 43-year-old selected to compete in the +87kg category in Tokyo, which begins on July 23. Hubbard was a talented junior lifter but quit the sport in her early 20s before returning to it in 2013, by which time she publicly identified as a woman.
“They have allowed New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to lift in the women’s category and there is nothing we can do about it,” Loau said. “We all know that it is not fair to the women lifters but that is a reality we face in the world of sports.” “I have so much respect for her … I wish her and all the other lifters the best. I hope we can all come together and enjoy the Olympics. This Olympics is quite different, I just wish her well,” Amoe-Tarrant said. “I’ve competed with her, I’ve always had some good chats with her.”
That rule is followed by the International Weightlifting Federation, with veteran officials like Australia’s Sam CoffaAdvertisementSwimming great Susie O’Neill, a deputy chef de mission for the Australian team in Tokyo, said if Hubbard was able to compete under the IOC rules, most athletes would accept the judge’s call.
phillutton78 Oh , biological male to compete in a woman’s sport . Sounds totally fair .
phillutton78 Because nobody’s got the balls to call this for what it is for fear of being called some kind of ‘phobe’. Fact is, only a very very small minority feel this is a good thing.
phillutton78 Haha feminists thought they were finally getting equal rights until the patriarchy swooped in once again, right?
phillutton78 Careful cancel culture will get you!!
phillutton78 You’ll have to be satisfied with silver and bronze then ladies .
phillutton78 Record of military terrorists forces raiding and storming the hospital in search of injured civilians to abduct in Mandalay today. UnfetteredAccessForAids June22Coup WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
phillutton78 Destroying women’s sport
phillutton78 Wow good luck ladies (you’re gonna need heaven’s divine rays I assue ye).
phillutton78 What BS - they are too scared to speak out . This is outrageous.
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phillutton78 Tennis and gymnastics should be more honest about their athletes
phillutton78 Place your bets
phillutton78 Cowards
phillutton78 Of course the Kiwis would be the 1st to pull something like this. They won the America's Cup in the courtroom.
phillutton78 What a joke, shame on New Zealand and the Olympics.
phillutton78 If only East Germany had thought of this, they wouldn’t have had to pump their female athletes full steroids.
phillutton78 They had no choice dealing with the cancel club did they now 🙄🙄🤡⬆️🤣🤣
phillutton78 Because if they don't, they'll be labelled Transphobic, and ushered out of the arena...
phillutton78 From next time every country will send only trans weightlifters in women category as its not fair for women competitors to compete against someone who was biologicaly a man New zealand is doing cheap things to win a medal
phillutton78 My grandfather has low testosterone
phillutton78 Not!
phillutton78 Why should trans compete with women why not with men? Or add another category of sports gender called trans gender.. Or Please remove Gender altogether from sports, if you are really that gender neutral!
phillutton78 Third wave feminism coming back to bite.
phillutton78 The death of women’s sports. Ludicrous
phillutton78 Why would women bother spending years training for an olympics only to have the committee allow a man to compete against you?
phillutton78 Countries should offer men incentives to become women to boost medal counts.
phillutton78 I have just one question: Is she pre-op or post-op?
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