I support meritocracy because I want Jackie Robinson’s name to be spelled correctly
On March 13, 2017, the New York Times wrote:
“The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”
On February 26, 2023, the New York City affiliate of ABC News wrote:
“Jackie Robinson Parkway sign goes up with spelling mistake”
Source: https://abc7ny.com/nyc-jackie-robinson-parkway-misspelled-sign-queens/12885986/
Here’s a photograph of the sign in question. Source of image: https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/nyc-dot-strikes-out-with-jakie-robinson-parkway-sign/
I support meritocracy because I want Jackie Robinson’s name to be spelled correctly.
The ‘Fittest Woman on Earth’ shared the diet she eats to lose weight, including bagels, bacon, and peanut butter
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fittest-woman-earth-shared-diet-110000684.html
The ‘Fittest Woman on Earth’ shared the diet she eats to lose weight, including bagels, bacon, and peanut butter
By Gabby Landsverk
March 22, 2022
Tia-Clair Toomey is a five-time CrossFit Games champ who has also competed at the Olympics in weightlifting.
Tia-Clair Toomey is a five-time CrossFit Games champion and trained for Olympic bobsled.
She said her diet was designed to help her lose weight slowly, while maintaining performance.
Toomey eats about 2,500 calories a day, including bagels, peanut butter, meat, and fruit.
To lose weight, the “Fittest Woman on Earth” relies on a heaping breakfast packed with bagels, bacon, and peanut butter, as well as plenty of protein and carbs sprinkled throughout her day, to support an intense workout schedule.
Tia-Clair Toomey, a five-time champion of the CrossFit Games, shared a YouTube video on Monday showing what she ate to transition from training for the Olympic bobsled team back to CrossFit.
CrossFit incorporates multiple fitness disciplines, from weightlifting to gymnastics, and tests of stamina, like long trail runs and open-water swimming. As a result, it can be advantageous if CrossFit athletes put on muscle mass in the offseason, then try to get leaner for competition.
Toomey’s fat-loss diet focuses on dropping weight slowly, while making sure she has plenty of energy to complete her training, according to her coach (and husband), Shane Orr.
In total, her day of eating clocks in at about 2,500 calories, compared with the 3,000 to 3,500 daily calories she consumed during bobsled season.
For breakfast, Toomey has a bagel with bacon, two eggs, another half a bagel topped with peanut butter and banana, blueberries, and supplements.
At 790 calories, it’s the biggest meal of the day with plenty of fats, protein, and carbs, which Toomey said helped her perform more effectively.
“I find I have enough energy and I recover very well,” she said.
Toomey has said she relies heavily on high-carb foods to fuel workouts. She incorporates about 790 calories’ worth of snacks throughout the day to keep her energy up, including oatmeal, bananas, fruit snacks, and protein smoothies.
Lunch is 500 calories, high-protein with quick-digesting carbs, which Toomey eats during a long break between training sessions. The meal consists of ground beef, liver, and white rice. It’s high in iron, zinc, and vitamin A.
Toomey rounds out the day with a light but filling dinner of pork tenderloin, potatoes, avocado, and salad, which is about 440 calories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KOSvt6ME6M
At least 69 athletes collapse in one month, many dead [far more than in previous years – is the COVID-19 vaccine to blame?]
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/11/26/at-least-69-athletes-collapse-in-one-month-many-dead/
At least 69 athletes collapse in one month, many dead
The reports of athletes who suddenly collapse have been increasing noticeably lately. Heart problems such as heart inflammation are often the cause – one of the known life-threatening side effects of Covid vaccines, which even the manufacturers themselves warn against.
November 26, 2021
The current phenomenon is also evident if you simply look on Wikipedia at the list of footballers who have collapsed and died. The year 2021 stands out with 13 entries so far. In no other year mentioned have more footballers died during a game. And this list goes back to the year 1889. So it really is a historical event.
The mainstream media is curiously uninterested in this major global story. The German online outlet Wochenblick compiled a referenced list of the cardiac incidents in October while another online outlet Granite Grok published a new list of sportsmen collapsing on the field. Other outlets also listed these incidents, with some cases overlapping.
But these do not include Filipino professional basketball star Roider Cabrera who on Wednesday collapsed during tournament play in Pasig City. The Tribune from the Philippines reported he had a cardiac arrest. Roider Cabrera later lost consciousness inside the locker room before he was immediately rushed to hospital where he was diagnosed with fatal arrhythmia according to a local news.
Many top athletes from both Europe and the US have reported serious side effects after a Covid jab. For French professional tennis player Jérémy Chardy, it has meant the end of his career. Chardy, formerly ranked 73 in the world, said he has been unable to train and play. “Since I got my vaccine [between the Olympics and the US Open], I have a problem, I have a series of problems. As a result, I can’t train, I can’t play.”
Icelandic professional footballer Emil Pálsson (28) collapsed in the game between his club Sogndal IL and Stjørdals/Blink. As reported by German daily Bild, Pálsson collapsed during the game, according to the Norwegian broadcaster NRK and the newspaper Verdens Gang. According to his club, he suffered cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated.
This week, on November 24, in the middle of the second half of the game between Reading FC and Sheffield United, Sheffield player John Fleck (30) suddenly collapsed on the field due to a cardiac incident and had to be rushed to hospital.
Soccer star from Sheriff Tiraspol Adama Traore went down while holding his chest during the Champions League game against Real Madrid on Wednesday night.
In Montana, a Park City High School football player Jedd Hoffman, passed away this month, almost one week after collapsing on the field during practice. These are cases not yet listed in the ongoing carnage that the jabs have unleashed.
In October cardiac and circulatory events on the sportsfield went through the roof.
Below is a shockingly long list of athletes who collapsed last month from heart problems or circulatory disorders such as strokes. Unfortunately, some of these incidents were fatal for the often very young athletes. The numbers are alarming, especially in view of mandatory Covid shots.
(1) At the encounter between PGS E Bosico and Romeo Menti (Allerona Scalo) in Umbria/Italy on October 2, 2021 , a “young player” from the visiting team collapses without any external influence and is transported to the hospital.
(2) Martin Lefèvre (16) from FC Agneaux collapses without any previous illnesses with a stroke during the game against FC Saint-Lô Manche on October 2, 2021. He is paralyzed on one side and has no ability to speak.
(3) Niels de Wolf, 27, from the Belgian football club White Star Sombeke, suffered a cardiac arrest immediately after the game against Verrebroek on October 3, 2021, was resuscitated with a defibrillator, but died in hospital on October 6, 2021.
Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record (satire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvesqJP1e4
In order for the women’s soccer team to be paid as much as the men’s team, at least one of these two things should have to happen
In order for the women’s soccer team to be paid as much as the men’s team, at least one of these two things should have to happen:
1) The women’s games generate as much advertising revenue as the men’s games.
2) The women’s team plays 25 games against the men’s team, and the women’s team wins at least 40% of those games.
Here are two examples of idiots on Mt. Everest who should not be allowed to be there
The New York Times recently published this article about the relatively large number of recent deaths on Mt. Everest.
The article states:
Some climbers did not even know how to put on a pair of crampons, clip-on spikes that increase traction on ice, Sherpas said.
People like that should not be allowed on the mountain.
This is from the same article. The bolding is mine:
“I saw some people like they had no emotions,” he said. “I asked people for water and no one gave me any. People are really obsessed with the summit. They are ready to kill themselves for the summit.”
This person also has no business being on the mountain. It’s not other people’s responsibility to bring water for him. It’s his own responsibility.
A person who was born as a biological male and identifies as a female has just won a women’s world championship cycling event
Rachel McKinnon, who was born as a biological male and identifies as a female, has just won the women’s 35-39 age bracket at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles.
As far as I know, this is the first time that a transgender person has even won a world championship in any athletic sport.
The other thing that makes this incident particularly interesting is that McKinnon believes that men who identity as women should not be required to take testosterone suppressing hormones (let alone have gender reassignment surgery) in order to participate in women’s athletic competitions.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: this is unfair to female athletes who were born as biological women.
On the other hand, for left wing feminists who claim that gender is a social construct and not a biological one, there is no legitimate reason to complain that this is unfair. They got exactly what they wanted.
I’m not sure if I agree or disagree with Trump for rescuing the UCLA shoplifters from China
I understand why Trump rescued these guys.
But I’m not sure if I agree, or disagree, with what Trump did.
If they hadn’t been famous athletes, would Trump still have rescued them?
What kind of a message does this send? That’s it’s OK to break the law because you won’t have to pay the price?
And how dumb would someone have to be to shoplift in China, where the punishment is far more severe than in the U.S.?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ucla-basketball-players-admit-shoplifting-china-trump/story?id=51164270
UCLA basketball players admit to shoplifting in China, thank Trump
November 15, 2017
The three UCLA basketball players detained in China last week have admitted to shoplifting and thanked President Donald Trump for helping them return to the U.S.
The players are suspended indefinitely as UCLA reviews the situation, Coach Steve Alford said, adding they will not travel with the team and will not suit up for home games.
Last week, while in China for a game against Georgia Tech, the three players, LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley, were detained for questioning following shoplifting allegations. The rest of the UCLA team returned home without them on Saturday. Ball, Hill and Riley returned to Los Angeles on Tuesday.
At today’s press conference Riley said he takes “full responsibility for the mistake I have made — shoplifting,” and said he is “embarrassed” and “ashamed.”
Riley thanked the Chinese police and government for taking care of them and he also thanked Trump and the U.S. government for intervening “on our behalf.”
“We really appreciate you helping us out,” he said.
“I will never do anything again to jeopardize UCLA’s reputation,” Riley said.
Ball apologized for “stealing” from the stores in China, calling it a “stupid decision.”
Ball said he “didn’t exercise my best judgment,” adding, “I’ve learned my lesson.”
He also thanked Trump and the U.S. government for helping and said he takes “full responsibility” for his actions.
Hill admitted to shoplifting and thanked the president as well, describing his actions as “stupid” and “childish.”
Alford called the players “good young men” who “exercised an inexcusable lapse of judgment.” The coach, who also apologized on their behalf, said he’s “extremely disappointed” and said the players “let a lot of people down.”
The shoplifting took place on Nov. 6, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero said.
On Nov. 7, police arrived at their hotel to interview students and search bags and the team bus, and once the three suspects were identified, they were escorted to a police station, Guerrero said.
On Nov. 8, the students were released on bail and surrendered their passports, he said.
On Tuesday, local authorities confirmed the students were free to leave the country, and the charges were withdrawn, he said.
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement Tuesday that “the matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of the Chinese authorities.”
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said Tuesday, “Our primary concern remains the safety and well-being of all members of our community, particularly our students. I am grateful they are headed home.”
Block added, “When members of the UCLA family fail to uphold these values, we review these incidents with fair and thorough processes. In this particular case, both Athletics and the Office of Student Conduct will review this incident and guide any action with respect to the involved students. Such proceedings are confidential, which limits the specific information that can be shared.”
Trump on Tuesday said he personally appealed to China’s President Xi Jingping to help resolve the case. The president said Xi was “terrific” in response to his request and indicated he would intervene.
Today, hours before that players’ press conference, Trump tweeted, “Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!”
Stevie Wonder kneels while performing national anthem
I admire Stevie Wonder for being clever enough to come up with an idea that appeals to both sides.
This is just totally beautiful and awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mi-MbiZlQY
Why do the NFL kneelers accuse the police of racism but not sexism?
OK. So let me see if I understand what’s going on.
After multiple recent incidents of the police shooting unarmed black men, the protestors are accusing the police of racism, but they are not accusing the police of sexism.
Why is that?
If these police police are racist, then why are they not also sexist?
Poll: Should professional tennis continue or abolish its policy of gender segregation?
I came up with the idea for this poll after reading John McEnroe’s recent claim that if Serena Williams had to compete against men, she would be ranked at about #700 instead of her current position of #1.
Male high school track runner climbs all the way from last place to first place simply by claiming to be a girl
At Cromwell High School in Connecticut, a male track runner has climbed all the way from last place to first place simply by claiming to be a girl.
In this particular case, the person in question has not even taken any gender altering hormones, and has not had sexual reassignment surgery. Instead, the person merely claimed to be a girl – and presto – they moved up all the way from last place to first place.
Radical left wing feminists have no right to complain that this is “unfair,” because it is they themselves who created this situation.
As time goes on, more and more “female” sports will come to be dominated by people who were born with a penis and have XY chromosomes, but who simply claim to be female. They won’t even have to take the hormones or have the surgery. They just have to say that they are female. Quite a racket that they have started for themselves.
By comparison, men’s sports will never have to worry about this. I guess the radical left wing feminists will probably end up referring to this as “male privilege,” even though it was the radical left wing feminists themselves who created this “unfair” situation in the first place.
Transgender Wins International Women’s Weightlifting Title
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/transgender-wins-international-womens-weightlifting-title/
Transgender Wins International Women’s Weightlifting Title
March 20, 2017
Laurel Hubbard, a 39 year-old transgender who was born male, won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia breaking four national records in the process.
In the politically correct future that social justice warriors are creating, Caitlyn Jenner-like athletes will likely dominate women’s sports
A 17-year-old wrestler in Texas named Mack Beggs was born female, and is in the process of transitioning to being male. As part of this transition, Beggs is taking the hormone testosterone under a doctor’s supervision.
As a wrestler who identifies as male, Beggs had wanted to compete in the boys’ wrestling league.
However, the rules required Beggs to participate in the girls’ wrestling league.
Normally in such competitions, participants are banned from taking hormonal drugs such as testosterone.
But under today’s politically correct climate, where social justice warriors insist that a person with a penis should be allowed to expose that penis in a girl’s locker room, it is considered perfectly acceptable for someone who self identifies as male, and who is taking testosterone, to participate in a girl’s athletic competition.
Not surprisingly, Beggs went the entire wrestling season undefeated, and won the state championship.
If this kind of thing continues to be allowed, then in the future, many world records in women’s athletics will likely be taken over by people who were born male, who transitioned to being female. So, for example, think of a future Caitlyn Jenner-type athlete competing at the Olympics against a bunch of women.
If this actually does happen, the left wing feminists will have no one to blame but themselves.
AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth
Why do the people who run the Olympics choose to put the athletes’ health at such high risk like this? Surely, there are other countries where they would be much safer.
AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth
July 30, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues — results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea…
Extreme water pollution is common in Brazil, where the majority of sewage is not treated. Raw waste runs through open-air ditches to streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites.
As a result, Olympic athletes are almost certain to come into contact with disease-causing viruses that in some tests measured up to 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach…
“What you have there is basically raw sewage,” said John Griffith, a marine biologist at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Griffith examined the protocols, methodology and results of the AP tests.
“It’s all the water from the toilets and the showers and whatever people put down their sinks, all mixed up, and it’s going out into the beach waters. Those kinds of things would be shut down immediately if found here,” he said, referring to the U.S…
The AP viral testing, which will continue in the coming year, found not one water venue safe for swimming or boating, according to global water experts.
Instead, the test results found high counts of active and infectious human adenoviruses, which multiply in the intestinal and respiratory tracts of people. These are viruses that are known to cause respiratory and digestive illnesses, including explosive diarrhea and vomiting, but can also lead to more serious heart, brain and other diseases.
The concentrations of the viruses in all tests were roughly equivalent to that seen in raw sewage — even at one of the least-polluted areas tested, the Copacabana Beach, where marathon and triathlon swimming will take place…
Besides swimmers, athletes in sailing, canoeing and to a lesser degree rowing often get drenched when competing, and breathe in mist as well. Viruses can enter the body through the mouth, eyes, any orifice, or even a small cut…
Girls basketball team gets booted from league for being too good
Girls basketball team gets booted from league for being too good
January 24, 2016
A Minnesota youth basketball team has been ejected from a league for being too good and now the coach, parents and players are crying foul.
The Rogers Area Youth Basketball Association girls high school team was forced to the sidelines by the Northwest Suburban Basketball League — and it’s all because the team is 3-0, Fox 9 reported Saturday.
“We found out Friday at lunchtime that we’re not going to be allowed because according to the league our girls were too talented,” coach Jason Hanauska told the station.
RAYBA sent parents a letter that said the main reason for the league’s decision was because other teams in the league “do not want to play RAYBA due to the skill level.”
“This is absurd,” parent Sherri Palmgren told the station. “Do we take the (NFL’s) Patriots or Cardinals, who are going to the championship game, and kick them to the curb because they’re too good?”
The league ejected RAYBA just ahead of a showcase tournament this weekend, according to Fox 9.
“Are we supposed to play worse just to make them happy?” team member Tessa McCarthy told the station.
Hanauska is slated to meet with the league’s board Monday.
Lars Andersen: a new level of archery
Wow! This guy is amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
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