Letters to the editor - July 17, 2021 : vimarsana.com

Letters to the editor - July 17, 2021


Olympic athletes’ conundrum
I find this bit of news about the Olympics rather distressing. Having been a sporting woman all my life, I find it incredible that the World Olympic Committee has decided to disregard fair competition which is the soul of the Olympics.
I am enclosing the text so that readers will see for themselves what is going on.
“The Tokyo Olympics begin on July 23 and, thanks to a rule change, male-born athletes are now allowed to compete alongside women in female categories.
“Disturbingly, the selection of Laurel Hubbard, a biological male, for the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team has robbed a 21-year-old woman from Tonga of the life-changing opportunity to compete in her first Olympics and demoralised the entire female weightlifting community who are asking: what is the point in competing?

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