Re: Contradictions To The Theory
Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 11:55 am
It's a good catch though, I'm not sure what those things are, it looks stranger than what I have in mind for a skin suit.
Nevermind it moves.Fakeologist related but not restricted
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Florence Griffith Joyner, the legendary American sprinter nicknamed "Flo-Jo", has died at the age of 38 from a heart seizure.
USA Track and Field spokesman, Pete Cava, confirmed the death of the sprinter who won four medals at the 1988 Seoul Games, equalling the women's Olympic record.
Griffith-Joyner first captured the headlines with her amazing series of runs in the US trials 10 years ago, which included a world record of 10.49 seconds in the quarter-final of the 100 metres.
She showed brilliant form at the Olympics in South Korea, where she won the 100m in a wind-assisted 10.54 seconds, then set two world records at the 200m, 21.56 in the semi-final and 21.34 in the final.
The runner, known for her extravagant, self-designed running uniforms and long fingernails, completed a triple gold in the sprint relay, then earned a silver medal in the 4x400m relay.
She retired immediately after the 1988 games, with many critics claiming her astonishing rise to prominence had been achieved on the back of performance-enhancing substances - accusations which she always denied.
Griffith-Joyner, who married 1984 Olympic triple-jump gold medallist, Al Joyner, in October 1987, also won a 1984 Olympic silver medal in the heptathlon and 1992 bronze medal in the long jump.
Ok, I see what you are saying.PotatoFieldsForever wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 4:11 pm I don't think it goes into her back it looks like an antenna
Sir Paul McCartney and Sony have a reached a deal in a battle over who owns publishing rights to The Beatles' songs, The Hollywood Reporter says.
The musician had gone to a US court, seeking to regain the rights to 267 of the band's classic tracks.
He has been trying to get them back since the 1980s, when Michael Jackson famously out-bid him for the rights.
Jackson's debt-ridden estate sold the songs to Sony last year, along with others including New York, New York.
Sir Paul's legal case, filed in a Manhattan court in January, was over what is known as copyright termination - the right of authors to reclaim ownership of their works from music publishers after a specific length of time has passed.
He claimed that he was set to reacquire the Beatles songs in 2018, but said Sony had not confirmed that it would transfer the copyrights to him.
"The parties have resolved this matter by entering into a confidential settlement agreement," Sir Paul's attorney Michael Jacobs wrote in a letter to US District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
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It's kind of obvious why the increasing professionalism in sport goes hand-in-hand with the widening definition of what a woman is. And also why the British originally came to the conclusion women's sports should remain amateur. Because as soon as you turn women's sports professional in the same way as men's sports, you are effectively creating, professional men's sports, and slightly shitter professional men's sports. Because the market will ultimately dictate who runs.Why did the Olympics ditch their amateur-athlete requirement?
And why weren’t the games professional from the start?
Jul 20th 2021
WHEN BARON PIERRE DE COUBERTIN had the idea of reviving the Olympic games of ancient Greece, he envisaged a strictly amateur affair. The Frenchman was deeply influenced by British attitudes to sport, or at least those of the British upper classes. These saw athletic pursuit in classical terms. That meant noble amateurism, underpinned by values such as fair play, stoicism and self-improvement for self-improvement’s sake (all infused, no doubt, with a snobbish disdain for working-class professional footballers, cricketers and the like). De Coubertin thought this attitude, drummed into the ruling class in Britain’s posh boarding schools, was the pillar on which its empire was built. He wanted his Olympic games to spread that ideal.
The early modern games—the first of which were held in Athens in 1896—reflected this. The rules stated that participants must never have competed for money nor, indeed, ever would. Jim Thorpe, one of America’s most famous athletes at the time, was stripped of his decathlon and pentathlon gold medals, won in 1912 in Stockholm, after it was discovered he had been paid (a pittance) for playing semi-professional baseball while he was in college. Yet from the start, as Matthew Llewellyn and John Gleaves describe in their book, “The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism”, the Olympic committee was accused of hypocrisy. Some of the early games, such as in Paris in 1900, were attached to world trade fairs, shrines to capitalism not classicism. And the winners in some of the more aristocratic sports, including automobile racing, equestrianism and motor-boat racing, were in fact awarded prizes of money or objets d’art. What is more, the Olympics aimed to be open to all and judged on ability. But amateurism meant that the games were open only to those of independent wealth.
When the Olympic movement began spreading around the world, it was left to national Olympic committees and individual sporting federations to define what amateurism meant. As governments started to see Olympic success as a gauge of national prowess, the rules became stretched. In an early example, the “Flying Finns”—Finnish runners who gobbled up long- and middle-distance medals in the 1920 Games—had been given cushy jobs in factories and allowed plenty of leave to train. Other athletes were rewarded for personal appearances or for writing newspaper columns. Such “shamateurs” may not have been paid to compete, but they were making a living from their sports nonetheless. But it was authoritarian regimes that saw the biggest opportunity to prove their superiority to the world. Communist Bloc countries, for example, pushed “state amateurism” to its limit. Athletes behind the Iron Curtain were nurtured from a young age, given spurious jobs, allocated full-time coaches, and were prepared under the direction of state scientists (who were not averse to doping). Ever more people came to believe that amateurism had run its course.
By the 1960s, television companies—able to broadcast live and in colour—were shelling out large sums to screen the games. Athletes, understandably, wanted their share. Sportswear brands such as Adidas and Puma began paying competitors to wear their goods. Western countries saw ending amateurism as a way to nullify the methods of Eastern Bloc regimes. (The Economist argued, in August 1980, that only full professionalisation would stop sport from falling “into communist hands”.)
And so, in the late 1980s, having spent decades ignoring de facto professionalism, IOC federations began dropping their formal amateur requirements, letting the governing bodies of each sport decide who could compete. Professionalism, they reasoned, would help to attract the world’s biggest stars, and thus improve the Olympics’ commercial prospects. Tennis, for example, had sat out the games since 1924 because of the ban on professional players. When it fully returned in 1988 Steffi Graf, who had just won all four grand slams, prevailed. (Other sports saw the relaxed rules as a threat. Football’s governing body, for example, worried that a star-studded Olympic tournament might eclipse its own World Cup, and so allowed only under-23s to participate.) The symbolic end of the amateur era came in 1992 in Barcelona, when a “Dream Team” of American basketballing superstars (pictured), including Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, captured the world’s affection and, inevitably, the gold medal.
Today, athletes are still not directly paid by the organisers of the games to compete. But even that last vestige of amateurism is easily got around, as individual countries reward success. Amateurism had tied the IOC in knots for decades. When it was resolved, the public barely raised an eyebrow.