Trans women athletes rule

  • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I was saddened to learn that professional long distance runners have a team who sign up for the race with them and run in front of them in formation to reduce drag. Marathon running seemed like the very purest form of sport where it was about nothing beyond your ability to run fast for a long time, but money found a way to make it this complicated team game where solo runners now have something like a 3’30" disadvantage at the top level.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      at that point we should just actually realize Dark Olympics, just allow every assistance you can get, go wild.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 days ago

        one olympics with basically no rules, one olympics where it’s literally just naked people with 0 assistance of any kind beyond what’s needed to keep them healthy.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Maybe swimming? Any high energy sports will cause you to have a high calorie diet, but I the diet is like 1/8-1/2 of the sumo wrestlers, and I feel like you get a decent amount of endurance and training from a lake/ocean/river if you don’t have a community pool around