Andrew Fischl
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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It says, how many men who dream of being top-tier professional athletes are willing to take female hormones, lose their muscle mass, lose their athletic edge, feminize their appearance, and live their lives as a woman in order to beat girls in a sport that pays less, has fewer sponsors, has a much diminished public profile? How many boys are willing to do this to play softball, volleyball, etc.?
It's not happening.
And even if you are successful, you're ostracized for it.
It seems that their new subtle proposal for what the rules should be is you just can't do that anymore.
They're dealing with kind of pressure from two different directions. One is the government telling them that they have to change the policy or they'll lose their NGB status. But the other is, I don't think that they're allowed to be less inclusive than the parent organizations or they would lose the NGB status anyway. So it's like being caught between a rock and a hard place here.
But essentially we have to do what our parent and grandparent organizations are doing in terms of inclusivity rules. Right. And as of right now, the USOPC and the IOC both allow the inclusion of transgender athletes under the eligibility criteria that we've talked about already.
My personal feeling is that the Secretary of Education and a few others might have some use for a little bit more education on this issue.
No, I don't. Based on what I've seen from her in the past in confirmation hearings and in meetings she's held, she doesn't seem to be interested in getting to the bottom of this. And I do think that there are legitimate questions and concerns on this topic, but I don't think that someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene is interested in finding out anything like that.
just keeps going down, yeah.
What the f*** is up with this buzzer? Right. So in... This is not a new story. It's something that happened a long time ago. But in 1976, in the pentathlon category of the Summer Olympic Games, a Soviet fencer named Boris Onishchenko actually had...
engineered a device inside of his epee where when he pressed a button, it would activate his scoring mechanism, which is to say that when he pressed a button, he essentially gave himself a point. So what he was doing was he was lunging near his opponent and then pressing the button to make it look like he got a point.
In the case of Boris Onoshenko, this situation actually led to a new rule about... where the wires are placed inside the guard. And over time, there have been other rules that have changed the way that equipment works to prevent tampering.
And the most recent instance of that that I'm aware of is in 2020, body cord casings were made transparent because of a situation that was never officially resolved one way or the other. But there was a fencer who... many fencers were complaining when they hit her, their point would not register. And when they tested afterwards, everything seemed fine.
Which is to say that fencing never lacks for creative problems.
I think I heard at one point that something like half of the rules about equipment were because someone found a way to cheat with them at some point. Right.
So this fencer's name is Lucia Luccherini. She was accused of having this happen in the years between 2015 and 2018 when she was doing well. And a common, like, retort to that is people who are doing well have opponents who object to them doing well. But there were videos being passed around of her with dozens of clips in them of her getting hit cleanly and the machine not registering a point.
How was she getting away with this? How did this scheme allegedly operate? there was a person who was working with her who had a machine that was operated by either pressing a button or a switch, and when the switch was active, it would prevent her machine from registering touches scored on her.
And so hypothetically, if I was helping you in this way, I would have the machine active while you were fencing, and as soon as you were scored on and it blocked it, I would just deactivate the machine, and when someone tested on you, it would just work normally.
She ended up winning the Italian Championships, I believe, in 2018. And when this happened, there was a match earlier in the day that a person refereeing her thought a lot of strange things were happening. So during the semifinal of that tournament, this referee actually sat behind the father and recorded over his shoulder what he was doing while watching his daughter fence.
So essentially in this clip, the fencer on the left hits the fencer on the right, and you can kind of see the blade hitting target cleanly. But then if you look at the same point from the side, her dad is doing something in his pocket, which is a little bit awkward. There's no clapping or cheering. It's very graphic, the motion he's making.
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