We risk alienating a generation of female athletes.... Daley Thompson

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/08/08/daley-thompson-interview-ioc-defend-womens-sport/

https://archive.ph/1P5Ug

I can't read it without an account but thank you for linking.

Thanks!

It's a great article.
“The IOC, in their different forms over the last 40 or 50 years, have been negligent in their duty towards the one thing they should be looking after, and that’s sport,”
Nails it, really. The IOC care about money and status. Sport is just the vehicle.

It really does nail it.

Excellent article. Daley Thompson seems like a decent bloke.

Such a lovely man and a good ally for women's sport.

Doesn’t he? Shame hardly any other male athletes are willing to stick their neck out.

He's always been brave and not afraid to go his own way. See what he says about his interactions with the press.

He's are true Olympian ⭐🫡

Great piece

I've always had a soft spot for Daley Thompson. Great athlete and altogether a top bloke who doesn't mince words.

Great to see decent blokes supporting women athletes (though I don't think that a man who reduces his testosterone levels is a woman).

Thank you for this, I'm going to send the link to the IOC Paris, it would be great if others did as well to hammer the message home.
The address again is support.olympics.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new

Absolutely agree with the headline of the article

Thank you x

"As an illustration, he points to <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/1P5Ug/www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/06/07/ioc-biologically-male-problematic-language-transgender/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the 33-page “Portrayal Guidelines” document that the IOC have issued to journalists in Paris, advising against the use of such terms as “born male” or “biologically male” on the grounds that such labels are “dehumanising” and constitute “problematic language”.

Un fukin believable.
Stasi tactics right there, 2+2=5 . Corrupt control freaks

Fantastic article - couldn’t be clearer.

A childhood hero. And he's still hero-ing now I'm in my 50s. He's being speaking up about this for years.

Same here. He was a big hero as a child, decathlon doesn’t seem to get the same publicity nowadays. As a crap triathlete I can really appreciate the work that goes into top level decathlon. So good to see my childhood hero standing up for women in sport.