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Nini made it to the Olympics!

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Hoping4second · 25/06/2021 20:24

The IWF sent her an invitation so she can come compete.
I feel this is them admitting that their rules are unfair to women.
And it does mean another athlete missed out on her discretionary invitation but we don't know who she is so can't make a big hoohah about it.

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WarriorN · 25/06/2021 21:08

Fantastic!

Whatwouldscullydo · 25/06/2021 21:03

Go Nini!!

That place was always rightfully yours

WotgunShedding · 25/06/2021 21:02

Two (2) quota places per gender will be allocated according to the Tripartite Commission Invitation and they are made available to eligible NOCs at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

(It’s from a bit of a random article though www.triathlon.org/news/article/tokyo_2020_olympic_games_tripartite_commission_invitation_places )

The tripartite invitations are limited in number so while it’s fantastic news for Nini, the injustice remains - another woman has been pushed out.

These are the official Olympic rules for tripartite invitations if anyone can make sense of them:

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BlackeyedSusan · 25/06/2021 20:58

so pleased for Nini.

MrsTerryPratchett · 25/06/2021 20:54

My mum will be pleased. She's almost 80 and doesn't comment on this a lot but she was really angry (spitting in her words) about this.

AfternoonToffee · 25/06/2021 20:54

Fantastic news. Go Nini.

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 25/06/2021 20:53

Excellent news! Go Nini - women the world over are rooting for you.

WanderinWomb · 25/06/2021 20:51

Well damn that was moved quickly.

WanderinWomb · 25/06/2021 20:48

Good for her and good for us kicking up a stink .

It shows that IOC realised that the public worldwide are watching very carefully. It should never have come to this and this won't distract me , I won't stop until we make sure it never ever happens again.

MouseyTheVampireSlayer · 25/06/2021 20:42

I'm glad she's getting to go.
But it should not have been necessary.

LizzieSiddal · 25/06/2021 20:39

Will they be doing this every single time a trans woman takes the place of an actual woman athlete?

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Hoping4second · 25/06/2021 20:38

@WotgunShedding I know right. And because it's discretionary we've got no way of knowing who missed out, so there will be no campaign to publicise her name and her story.

The f*ckers know exactly what they're doing.

Good for Nini though, she sounds like an inspirational athlete.

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WotgunShedding · 25/06/2021 20:32

It doesn’t alter the fact that another woman has been denied an opportunity to compete though - the woman who would’ve got the triparte invitation if they hadn’t needed to use it on Nini has now missed out.

LizziesTwin · 25/06/2021 20:27

So pleased to hear this.

Crazy it has come to this however, I guess they want it to go quiet.

WotgunShedding · 25/06/2021 20:26

Wow, that’s amazing news!! So glad she will be able to compete