Re: Politics infect bicycle race

Am 26.04.2025 um 01:38 schrieb Shadow:

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:22:57 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 4/25/2025 1:19 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:55:06 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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https://catholicvote.org/homeschooled-student-denied-first-place-medal-new-zealand-mountain-bike-competition

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Not politics, just common sense
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"homeschooled students have an unfair advantage because they
can train all day while their peers are in school."
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TRUE
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"What parent is actually going to think that it’s sensible
even that their kid just trains all day and doesn’t prepare for
everything else in life?"
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Every single sociopathic parent that ever existed. Just look
at the lives of "child" models, actors, singers and most athletes.
Their parents get rich, and at 30 they are sometimes pennyless and
usually more ignorant than someone that didn't go to school at all.
IMHO
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PS Britney Jean Spears started her "professional career" when
she was 3 years old. Her father, a religious fanatic and a raving
alcoholic (IOW, a "conservative") held her purse-strings until she was
over 30.... "for her own good" of course.

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Along those lines of thought, the organizers should not have
collected entry fees from disfavored contestants.

  Almost a scam, unless the rules said quite clearly that
home-schooled children would get a "certificate" and not a medal.

This reminds me of my grandad.  A few weeks before his School Finals, he took part in the German Rowing Championships (Dresden, 1921) as a cox, winning the 8's easily by more than a boat length.
They got a gold medal but the second finishers were celebrated as German Champions (Aussig - today Usti - was in Czechoslovakia).