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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Emphasis mine.

“We didn’t want everybody to go into a panic, we wanted them to be able to compete,” Lyles, wearing an N-95 mask, told reporters about 45 minutes after finishing in 19.70 seconds... Lyles added: “And you never want to tell your competitors you’re sick. Why would you give them an edge?”

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

prizing sports over human lives? barbara-pit

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Idk if you have ever run a 200 meter but the dossiers you have to read on your opponents are thicker than the race is long. It's understandable to keep this under wraps. Plus sprinting on covid is a dream anyway

[–] dRLY@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

"They don't ask 'how?' they ask 'how many?'."

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

The Paris Olympics are the first to be held without the pandemic-era bubbles of the Tokyo Games in 2021 and the Beijing Games in 2022. In Tokyo, athletes were tested every four days. In Beijing, they were tested daily. When athletes tested positive, they were placed in quarantine. Most were forced to withdraw from the Games entirely.

no bubbles but covid is still there thonk

'if we pretend something is not there maybe it will just go away on its own'

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

CW: SAFirst I hear about the pedophile rapist participating in the 2024 games, and now this. The Olympics are such a fucking sick joke.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

jesus christ, the dutch really don't give a fuck about anything.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From the people who brought you inexcusably racist Christmas traditions!

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Interestingly, that's likely one of the few very old traditions in Europe. Because as far as I know, nobody else has a similar characters nearby, but the Iranians do, they have 2 a modern one called haj firuz, who does more or less what the dutch guy does, and one, who was amalgamated into cyrus the greats father.

The idea is that siyavash (siya meaning black) was caused of raping one of his father's concubines so is order to prove his innocence he had to ride between 2 piles of burning wood. If he survived he would be found innocent. This seems to be an ancient ritual to test oath breakers. How ancient? Of the 4 gods attested for bronze age indo Aryans, 2 are associated with contracts, one uses water to test innocence the other uses fire. So the ritual is at least that old. And associated mythological figures are likley as old. So that's why he has a black face.

Anyway the test didn't work, he survived but because he was given to a known sorcerer as a war when he was a kid they said he cheated, so he was sent into exile where he became governor of Khotan, where he married one of the daughters of Afrasyab(how has been amalgamated with some underworld characteristics) producing cyrus the great, and a daughter of peeran (who sounds a lot like the Slavic god of thunder) latter cyrus the greats henchmen murder his half brother.

So it's not Zeus or Jupiter, but black Peter who is the last remnant of Indo-European religion in Europe.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

so your telling me that the Indo-european skull shape makes them crave for blackface.... huh interesting ✍️

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I'm no phrenologist, but that seems likely.

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I pity everyone that has to deal with them. I've met a few. Revolting.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Van de Velde is married to Kim van de Velde [de] (née Behrens), a German volleyball player who studied psychology and trained to become a police officer.

chefs-kiss

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an entire Wikipedia article on the fuckups in the 2024 Olympics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics

And it's super long too. A bunch of swimmers competed despite having Covid.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

covid-cool great, super normal!

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They lied about to you covid

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I didn't make this one. Mine are more coherent.

[–] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i realise the intention but this looks like a covid denialism meme honestly

[–] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

They about lied to Covid you?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

Absolute death cult.

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they've also been feeding them shitty food, and multiple triathletes vomited after swimming in the Seine. this is turning out to be a bit of an embarrassment for Paris

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Paris doesn’t have any other bodies of water that isn’t full of shit to show off?

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

they held the surfing in tahiti, so they obviously could have relocated the event if they hadn't been so obstinate

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

like, if my math is correct, they could have used the reflecting pool at the Palace of Versailles, with just a little bit of a bend. they did the equestrian cross country there

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He isn't even the only athlete to compete knowing they had Covid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics

There was an outbreak of COVID-19 among aquatic athletes at the Games. On 24 July, it was reported that five members of Australia's women's water polo team had tested positive for COVID-19. Chef de Mission Anna Meares stated the cases were limited to the water polo team and that standard respiratory illness protocols had been put in place. On 29 July, British swimmer Adam Peaty tested positive for COVID-19 after displaying symptoms the previous day, before he took part in the 100 m breaststroke final, and Australian swimmer Lani Pallister tested positive on 30 July, pulling out of her race that day. Though it was not mandated, swimmers and coaches began wearing facemasks at venues. The confirmation of Peaty and Pallister's positive tests was followed by reporting later on 30 July that three other swimmers, two from the US and one from Romania, had contracted COVID-19, with the Americans having been relocated to a hotel.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

I'm betting there are some athletes who are antivax hogs too, that tennis player springs to mind

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't intense exercise while having COVID associated with heart damage and sudden death?

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Who cares? Gold medals made out of aluminum are on the line here. Not to mention the internal nationalist glory. /s