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Imane Khelif, the IOC, World Boxing and mandatory sex testing | 3 Wire Sports

1 week ago | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

The female category in sport is for women and girls – individuals with XX chromosomes. Identity is not biology. To pretend otherwise is not only to make a mockery of any notion of fairness but, in the case of boxing, risk serious injury or worse.
The IOC's first female (and first African) president: Kirsty Coventry

2 months ago | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – The International Olympic Committee, founded in 1894, has had nine presidents. All have been white men. Eight have been Europeans. Avery Brundage, 1952-72, was American. On Thursday, in just a single round of voting, the IOC elected Kirsty Coventry, 41, of Zimbabwe, its 10th president. She will formally take over from Thomas Bach in June in Lausanne. He was elected in 2013 and is termed out. “This is an extraordinary moment,” Coventry said as Bach, to the side, beamed.
What might have been, and a warning for what IOC presidential voting needs to be

2 months ago | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – Before Thursday’s vote here for the next president of the International Olympic Committee, it’s worth taking a moment to think about what might have been. And how one of the most shocking deaths in the Olympic scene reverberates, still – with a warning for what is to come in arguably the most consequential IOC presidential election, ever.
Larry Buendorf, 1937-2025 -- one of the really good guys

2 months ago | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

Larry Buendorf, who for decades kept the U.S. Olympic Committee safe in a turbulent world, died Sunday in Colorado Springs. He was 87. Buendorf, a former U.S. Secret Service agent well known for breaking up an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford in 1975, served as the USOC’s director of security from the early 1990s through his retirement in 2018 — seeing the athletes, team and leadership through the 1996 Atlanta Games bombing, the fraught years after 9/11 and so much more.
The IOC Emperor is trying to take everyone’s clothes

Mar 5, 2025 | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

Like the pretty pictures from Paris last summer, the veneer would suggest all is well in the Olympic landscape. For its part, the IOC would like you to believe everything is hunky-dory. Except:Sponsors are saying buh-bye. TV ratings are not what they were. The IOC is squeezing organizing committees. For years, the international sports federations have seen their IOC funding flatline. Athletes, purportedly at the center of the Olympics, report a struggle to buy groceries.
The fires are a historic disaster. But ... LA will host the 2028 Summer Games

Jan 14, 2025 | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

What’s happening in Los Angeles, the city I have lived in since late 1992, the city I love, is nothing less than a monumental disaster. The fires will prove a defining event in the 21st century history of Los Angeles and California. But to suggest, as some would do, that the Summer Games of 2028 are not going to happen here because of the fires – that’s just stupid. Indeed, LA28 now has a narrative – a phoenix, if you will, from the ashes.
IOC Empire threatens World Olympians with Death Star - hardy band bucks control | 3 Wire Sports

Dec 2, 2024 | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

Most everyone knows there are nine movies in the core Star Wars canon. Then there is the 2016 prequel Rogue One, arguably the best in the anthology. It’s about a band at the outskirts of the galaxy in confrontation with the Empire. This brings us to the situation involving the World Olympians Association and the International Olympic Committee. Nominally, this situation would appear to be about money.
The Imane Khelif matter resurfaces: can we find in it, somehow, our common humanity? | 3 Wire Sports

Nov 4, 2024 | 3wiresports.com | Alan Abrahamson

The story of Imane Khelif, the Algerian athlete who won gold in the women’s boxing competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, is filled with layers of complication.
UN expert on violence against women and girls takes shot at IOC

Oct 9, 2024 | insidethegames.biz | Alan Abrahamson

The International Olympic Committee under president Thomas Bach has sought to work closely with the United Nations. Particularly when it comes to the rights and roles of women and girls. So it was all the more noteworthy that the UN’s “Special Rapporteur” for, among other matters, women in sports took a plain shot Tuesday at the IOC for the controversy that erupted at the Paris Games in women’s boxing.
Don’t Feel Sorry for the Menendez Brothers

Oct 9, 2024 | thefp.com | Alan Abrahamson

Interesting. Sexual abuse? Maybe but who knows...it's rare but not unusual for children to falsely claim sexual abuse. And sexual abuse is not always a factor in parricide although it makes an easy explanation for the horror of parricide in what seems like 'normal' families. We can guess and speculate but no outsider ever knows the finer details of internal goings-on in marriages/families other than the people involved.

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Alan Abrahamson @alanabrahamson

2 Jun 25

New release from @IBA_Boxing calling @RealWorldBoxing move to mandatory sex testing sparked by Imane Khelif (in particular) eligibility 'the only right approach.' See it at https://t.co/FLUGy6d5La It also includes this call for an apology: https://t.co/aT77xhGkMM

Alan Abrahamson @alanabrahamson

1 Jun 25

Thank you. Fixed!