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#cycling #UCI
“David Lappartient is prepared to tell the U.S. president the #IOC's autonomy must be respected.
"The #IOC job is a huge task, which requires soft power and diplomacy amid a hot debate on the participation of transgender athletes after Trump issued an order to exclude transgender #girls and #women from #female sport … triggered what is likely to be a long, complex clash with global #sports authorities as the U.S. counts down to the #LA28 #Olympics”
UK olympic team spotted practicing for Synchronised Scaffolding in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, and revealing the new Official Team GB 2028 athletes' orange-themed uniform
#teamgb #olympicgames #LA28 #newcastle #uk
“The US state department has ordered officials worldwide to deny visas to transgender #athletes attempting to come to the US for #sports competitions and to issue permanent visa bans against those who are deemed to misrepresent their birth sex on visa applications”
"would also apply to other #women’s #sports leagues such as the #NWSL and #WNBA, which allow trans #athletes to compete, or future #women’s #WorldCup competitions hosted in the US” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applicationsJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
This IBA #boxing lot really are shameless.
Although if there's one person that will sway the IOC it will of course no doubt be Trump.
Plus remember it's only months ago most of the 'gender critical' lot went around pumping up this Putin-adjacent 'organisation'.
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2028 Olympics: IBA asks President Trump to 'look into' boxing's omission from LA Games
The International Boxing Association asks Donald Trump's new administration to "look into" the sport's omission from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.BBC Sport
The Olympics Aren't the Way to Rebuild Los Angeles
#LAOlympics #AlternativeSolutions #UrbanPlanning #LeftPolitics #LA28
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The Olympics Aren’t the Way to Rebuild Los Angeles | The Nation
The right opposes the LA Olympics on reactionary grounds, but the left must not embrace their arguments. There are better ways to help LA recover than LA28.The Nation