#interclub

[sheffieldmma]

Shootfighters wanting to compete this month. Register over at @fightstarinterclub then put your name on the board at the club. Let's have a good turn out for this one! #fighters #interclub #debut #compete (at Sheffield Shootfighters Mixed Martial Arts Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6hIpislvY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[psychic-waffles]

Wangliu are back and skating for hot people everywhere

[coochiequeens]

He can still compete, he just can’t compete against women.

A trans-identified male runner took first place at a women’s race in France last weekend despite a recent rule change at an international level banning males from competing in female athletic competitions. 

Halba Diouf, 21, broke his personal record at the Nice Côte D’Azur Athlétisme (NCAA) Interclubs Open competition in Nice on May 7. His winning time made him the ninth fastest recorded “female” in French athletic history. 

He achieved a leading performance which nearly met the minimum time required for the Olympics, which Diouf has expressed interest in participating in as a “woman.”

However, due to recent rule changes proposed by World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics, male competitors who have gone through male puberty are not permitted to compete in the female categories of international competitions. 

World Athletics oversees regulations for a variety of race-related events, and previous guidelines allowed men to compete in the female division if they had suppressed their testosterone levels below a certain threshold – a standard which critics pointed out was set to as much as five times higher than the average amount of the hormone found in females.

Speaking about the decision by World Athletics Diouf in a recent interview, Diouf said: “I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold … The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish and we are being refused that, we are being hounded … I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions.”

Diouf also took to social media to denounce his critics. On March 26, he posted a statement to Instagram asserting that he believed he had a right to compete against female athletes. 

“I am extremely angry, because I gave up too many things to come to this,” Diouf wrote. “If we have to fight to show our existence, we will! The hordes of angry people who moan that trans people are threatening the civilization they’ve built are right.”

Two weeks ago, Diouf appeared on France TV where he repeated his views on the World Athletics decision.

“The alleged intention to ‘protect women’ by exclusionary policies like this is insidious, even pernicious, and it is intended to deceive people, especially women!” he said. “In reality, these [regulations] are not protecting anyone and harm all women by continuing to monitor women’s bodies. They are indirectly being infantile without even knowing it, and that’s a pity.”

Diouf was born in born in Senegal, but his family immigrated to France when he was four years old. He has undergone cross-sex hormone therapy and legally changed his sex marker on his identification to read “female” two years ago. 

Diouf won a women’s 200m race in January 2023, just prior to the rule change by World Athletes. However, just days after winning the competition, his details were deleted from the list of participants. The French Athletics Federation (FFA) stepped in requiring more information about Diouf’s medical status and hormone levels to ensure they were in-line with World Athletics guidelines at the time for trans-identified males.

Diouf was found to have met the criteria. His endocrinologist, Alain Berliner, said the 21-year-old “is a woman, from a physiological, hormonal and legal point of view.” Only two months later in March 2023, World Athletics updated their guidelines. 

In a statement about their decision, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe argued, “We cannot in all conscience leave our transgender regulations as they were at 5nmol/L for at least one year when we were unsure about the impact of doing so across all our disciplines.”

“The decision that the council made is a primarily principled based decision about the over-arching need to protect the female category. This is what our sport is here to do. And I think the council has done that today.

“We continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations. We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years.”

After the decision, Diouf said in an interview that he was “shocked” but would continue to present himself to female competitions despite the rule change. 

The French Athletics Federation (Fédération Française d’Athlétisme – FFA) granted permission for Diouf to compete “up to the departmental level”, but his performances cannot be taken into account for an international selection, meaning he has been permitted to participate in national championships or for French women’s records. This allowed him to compete in the open competition on Sunday, where he won the women’s 200m race. 

World Athletics are not the only sporting governing body to update their policy on males competing in women’s sports. FINA, the international swimming world’s governing body, voted to ban trans-identified males from elite female competitions if they had undergone male puberty.

By Shay Woulahan

Shay is a writer and social media content creator for Reduxx. She is a proud lesbian activist and feminist who lives in Northern Ireland with her partner and their four-legged, fluffy friends.

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San Vicente del Raspeig se convertirá durante dos semanas en el epicentro del automovilismo y ciclismo de la provincia de Alicante

San Vicente del Raspeig será durante la tercera semana de marzo y la segunda semana de abril el punto de encuentro para los apasionados de los mundos del motor y el ciclismo. El municipio acogerá el próximo sábado, 23 de marzo, la salida del VI Rally Hivern, que por primera vez se celebra en San Vicente del Raspeig. La prueba será puntuable para el Trofeo de Regularidad de la Comunidad Valenciana…

[nervy-nerva]

Interclubs CAF : le tirage au sort des quarts de finale prévu le 5 avril

Le tirage au sort des quarts de finale de la Ligue des Champions et de la Coupe de la Confédération de la CAF se déroulera le mercredi 05 avril 2023, Au Caire (Égypte) à 19h30 (heure kinoise), a annoncé l’instance faîtière du football africain. Pour la diffusion de cette événement, la CAF a rassuré de la retransmission en direct sur toutes ses plateformes numériques. « Le tirage au sort sera…

[rinkasisopods]

JIN SHUXIAN ♫ JONETSU TAIRIKU at the Chinese Figure Skating InterClub League (Xi'an)

[kerrslvr]

How can we expect anyone to take women's football seriously and as a peer to the men's game when we ourselves don't? I understand the place that this attitude comes from and outright abuse to the players is obviously never okay, but this idea that it's ridiculous to be upset by a player not taking club culture/interclub rivalry serious is a big issue in woso. People who treat it like 'oh just a silly little game' like it isn't a big deal and looking down on people who invest themselves into it. If a men's Arsenal player put a Spurs scarf on for a laugh he'd be barred from the Emirates.

listen, i understand where you’re coming from. but lachlan posted the picture of kyra AS A JOKE. the scarf was draped over her shoulder, she wasn’t wearing it, she wasn’t wearing a spurs shirt. it was a joke.

people shouldn’t be making a big deal about it in my opinion because it’s fucking pathetic and i’m sorry but this is what makes arsenal fans insufferable.

these are the same arsenal fans that wore barça shirts to the chelsea game, no? i FULLY understand that barça and arsenal are two different leagues and they’re allowed to support more than one team, but doesn’t that make it difficult if barça ever played arsenal? who would they support then? would they wear a barça scarf and an arsenal shirt and get laughed out of the stadium?

the fact they told charli it wasn’t the right time to post it because the men’s team lost out on a CL place next season is honestly the most pathetic thing i’ve ever heard like PLEASE go and touch some grass i beg.

and while we’re on the topic; people coming for bengland for supporting charli’s post need to give their heads a fucking wobble and i’ve never been so serious about anything in my life

anyway

rant over :)

[alexbkrieger13]

If I had a euro for every Juve-Bayern couple I would have 2 euros, which is not much but it's a coincidence that we have 2 interclub couples with that combination

And the fact 3/4 of them are Swedish 😅

[soubaim]

Clássicos Interclubes de carros antigos de Setembro.

[lisutarid-a]

[Gakuen K] Yatogami Kuroh Route Translation

Human vacuum cleaner?

LIST OF CHAPTERS

[Translation under the cut]

Saya: Fuu, we're home!

Shiro: Welcome home, you two. Congratulations on winning the interclub ball tossing competition.

Shiro: That was awesome, what you did. I can't believe you drew to you all the balls falling to the ground.

Shiro: Special ability to attract balls. Number one and the only one, that's so cool. I admire it.

Choice: [It's complicated…]

Saya: It's weird, isn't it? I'm glad it was helpful this time, but I don't see much use for it…

Kuroh: Don't be too pessimistic, I feel sorry for the power that resides in you.

Shiro: Kuro is right. It's because of that power you were able to become number one at the ball game. Right?

Saya: Uhm…

Saya: (That's right. I have to face it seriously from now on)

Choice: [I hope it was useful] ❤

Saya: It's a strange ability, but I'm glad it was useful.

Kuroh: It was more than helpful. We won because of you.

Shiro: It was nice to watch how she collected the balls with her ability that Kuro throws her in an assembly-line system maner.

Saya: In assembly-line system maner…Fufu.

Kuroh: I don't like the way you put it…

Saya: By the way…Where's Neko-chan, Shiro-kun?

Shiro: Neko…right-right, she went to participate in an individual event. She said she was going to participate in a bread-eating contest.

Saya: I see. Neko-chan seems to be good at it.

???: Yata-saan, there they are!

Saya: Yata-kun, Kamamoto-kun…?

Yata: Y-Yo…

Kuroh: What do you want? Is this a protest against the results of ball-toss game we just played?

Yata: Protest…protein? (Used word adaptation here. In fact, he did not understand the meaning of the word protest (kogen) and said collagen (koragen)) I don't know what you're talking about. I'm here to talk with…that one over there.

Saya: With me?

Yata: Yeah, right. When you were playing ball-toss game… You were using your weird ability, right?

Saya: U-Uhm…I guess it still strange after all.

Yata: …You did.

Saya: Eh?

Yata: I was really excited when I saw your ability!

Saya: E-Eh…?

Yata: Whoosh-whoosh and the balls were being sucked in! At the level of a human vacuum cleaner!

Yata: At first I was really suprised. Then I quickly realized that you had the same powers as my favorite American comic book hero!

Saya: H-Ha.

Yata: He's really super awesome! He sucks in bullets, bombs and solve crimes. Can you do that too?

Saya: I-I don't know…I've never seen a bullet or a bomb.

Yata: Seriously, you should try! If you want, I'll ask Kusanagi-san to get them for you, huh?

Saya: N-No! Don't ask! It looks dangerous…

Yata: Are you sure? What a bore.

Yata: Well, whatever. I just wanted to tell you that I was really impressed, that's all! Let's go, Kamamoto!

Saya: (Somehow I got very tired…)

Shiro: It's a good thing, isn't it? You have a fan of your ability.

Saya: Ahaha…

Kuroh: Human vacuum cleaner…Fufu.

Saya: Kuro-kun, don't laugh…

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[psychic-waffles]

Wangliu aka the only ice dancers I will be giving a pass to for all black costumes this season

[horsemage]

Banned from the club email account and interclub meetings due to my inability to contain my disgust toward another club’s leader

[purplelea]

to all chess clubs looking for players to fill in their adult team for interclubs matches. Do NOT put some random ass kid who's barely ever played a competitive game. Just take the L and forfeit. Please. That kid is going to have a bad experience, they're gonna lose their game in 15mins and be bored for the next 3 hours AT LEAST. So don't do it.

Sincerely, the arbiter who took care for an entire afternoon of a 10yo girl who was brought there to fill in for her chess club and lost her very first competitive game to one of my friends who's been playing for ten years. The game in itself was not a fun experience for that girl, she was all alone because everyone else she knew was busy playing, and she was lucky I didn't have much to do.

Kids are not chess pawns you can place mindlessly on a board. Thank you.

[danykha]

Poor France...

Congratulations to Ariel Piper, the real winner.

[francesefun]

2023 10u Interclub Champion. Title defended ✅️

[dykeogenes]

looking up some of my old trampoline teammates (from the interclub [lowest comp level] team i was on for five years) & here’s a selection of what i’ve found so far

1. the little girl who looked up to me is currently competing a routine with at least two doubles at a high provincial level (i assume she’ll make national soon)

2. my tramp bestie whose nose i accidentally broke is gay and a gender studies major

3. the girl who i mostly remember because she proudly told us all she wasn’t vaccinated for anything is president of her university business competition club

4. the guy who i mentioned dating women to and then he panicked and said “you’re lebanese????” (loved that guy) went provincial for a while but stopped in 2019. also he sang choir quite seriously (on his linkedin levels of seriously) for like five years

5. i could not find anything on the ten year old who dislocated my shoulder with a vigorous high-five. but i hope she’s doing well