(Article by Brian C. Joondeph republished from AmericanThinker.com)

The original games date back to 776 B.C. and ran for a millennium until 393 A.D. The games were held every four years and initially only permitted first-born Greek men to participate.

Artists and poets presented their works, and the ancient Olympics had a definite political flavor, even thousands of years ago. Early sports included running, boxing, chariot racing, wrestling, and pentathlon.

The Olympics went dark in the 4th century A.D. until the first modern games in Athens in 1896.

Over the next hundred-plus years, winter games were added, professional athletes were allowed to participate, the number of sports expanded (who knew break dancing and skateboarding would now be Olympic sports?), and politics had an increasing presence in the games to the point that they are now eclipsing the athletic events.

The Paris 2024 Olympics, instead of featuring an opening ceremony celebrating the home country of France, offered an anti-Christian, LGBTQ smorgasbord depiction of The Last Supper featuring a drag queen defending the offensive show as, “a multifaceted, multiethnic France with people of different ethnicities and orientations.”

If the Olympic committee really wants to showcase “different orientations” in “multiethnic France”, they should perform a closing ceremony featuring the prophet Mohammed as a Rubenesque figure surrounded by a cadre of dancing imams in drag. But of course, that “facet” of diversity will never see the light of day.

DEI for thee but not for me.

Transgender athletics is another hot political issue, specifically transgendered or genetically anomalous women, previously known as men, guys, or dudes, competing as and against women, previously known as gals, chicks, or ladies.

For what should be obvious reasons, this is grossly unfair and, in some cases, dangerous, threatening the safety, health, and life of women athletes.

Like a broken record, I have written about this topic extensively on these pages. Suffice it to say that male athletes are 10 to 25 percent faster and stronger than female athletes based on speed or weight lifted in the same competition.

But in contact sports like boxing, speed and strength are harder to quantify. And the consequences are potentially life-threatening.

If a man runs or swims faster than a woman in direct competition, the injury is emotional. A woman training for years or decades denied a medal or championship by having to compete against a biologic male is emotionally devastating and abusive.

But what happens when injuries go beyond psyche and ego?

A female volleyball player was “left paralyzed with brain damage by transgender opponent who 'cackled with delight' after knocking her to ground.” A trans-female MMA fighter fractured the orbital socket of a biologic female MMA fighter about a decade ago.

Trans apologists pooh-pooh an orbital fracture as no big deal despite the fact that it can cause blindness due optic nerve compression. Are they dismissing paralysis too?

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