Good News for Olympic Mothers

[Delphinium20]

Thought I'd share some good news for women. U.S. marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk was not allowed to bring her infant daughter to Tokyo despite the fact she was breastfeeding her. She took to social and pressed the Olympic committee and they finally changed the policy! 28 days is too long to be from a baby even if you're not breastfeeding, so very happy to hear she finally got this rule changed!

www.si.com/olympics/2021/06/30/tokyo-olympics-allow-babies-breastfeeding-athletes

[QuentinBunbury]

They did talk quite a lot about Roger Federer having just had twins when he was competing that year. But no comments about how fresh faced he looked considering he'd just had a baby
That article about the swim hats is proper shocking

[Spo]

Talking of sport, was anyone else bothered by how much the commentators in the Coco Gough match at Wimbledon last night, went on and on about how her opponent was a Mum. It was endless. She had a baby this long ago, hasn't she got her shape back, doesn't she look amazing, would you come back after a baby blah blah. I don't think I've ever heard any commentator talking about a male player's parental status...maybe I've just missed it

[MotherOffCod]

Oh my goodness, that is shocking about the swimming caps. What the hell!

[Delphinium20]

[quote OhHolyJesus]The news about a ban on swimming caps for Afro hair

metro.co.uk/2021/06/30/inclusive-swimming-hats-for-afro-hair-barred-from-the-olympics-14846410/

and this re the London Marathon not so good though

www.telegraph.co.uk/womens-sport/2021/07/01/london-marathon-criticised-pregnancy-discrimination-deferral/[/quote]
Thanks for sharing this one! Another "rule" that only hurts the women competing.

[Delphinium20]

@LittleRa

So pleased to hear this, after reading about British archer Naomi Folkard who had been pumping breast milk every night to leave enough for her 5 month old baby when she goes to Tokyo. Hopefully she will take baby Emily with her now, but this decision has come way too late at the cost of hours spent pumping excess milk, messing with her supply, a waste of time and calories at a time when she’s training for the Olympics.

Wow! I didn't know about that. Having pumped and breastfed, the later was much more expedient.

[Whatwouldscullydo]

This is good news.

The swim.cap article is disturbing though.

Haven't we also seen on here befire a Muslim.girl disqualified fir running in a sports head covering.

And a black girl told her swimsuit was not suitable despite it being the school issue swimsuit

And yet males can compete in womens sports.

Talk about racist rules

[OhHolyJesus]

The news about a ban on swimming caps for Afro hair

metro.co.uk/2021/06/30/inclusive-swimming-hats-for-afro-hair-barred-from-the-olympics-14846410/

and this re the London Marathon not so good though

www.telegraph.co.uk/womens-sport/2021/07/01/london-marathon-criticised-pregnancy-discrimination-deferral/

[Tabasco007]

That's good news, I was thinking about this this morning and didn't know the rule had been overturned. I couldn't help but think, allow a male to compete against women, but don't allow a women to go with her child, or wear a bathing hat of her choice. I can't help but think the IOC hates women.

[LittleRa]

So pleased to hear this, after reading about British archer Naomi Folkard who had been pumping breast milk every night to leave enough for her 5 month old baby when she goes to Tokyo. Hopefully she will take baby Emily with her now, but this decision has come way too late at the cost of hours spent pumping excess milk, messing with her supply, a waste of time and calories at a time when she’s training for the Olympics.

[NiceGerbil]

And men often love their families and don't want to be away from them either.

Changes like this benefit everyone.

These athletes aren't machines.

[Aquamarine1029]

Of course they wanted to fuck over female athletes in yet another way. Fucking hell. Glad it got overturned but it's absolutely pathetic it needed to even come to this.

[ChakaDakotaRegina]

That’s great!
Serena Williams seemed to indicate that she couldn’t attend the Olympics as it would be too long away from her child. You have to wonder how many mothers (and yeah maybe fathers) saw this issue and ‘stepped off the gas’ from their training programs.

[Datun]

That's really good.

[NiceGerbil]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting OP.

Thank you and well done for persevering to bring this change about Aliphine Tuliamuk.