I am for honest sport

The debut at the Games of the Transgender athlete Lorel Hubbard did not come out gold. But the deception from the performance in the female bar of the former New Zealand man did not become less

Resting on Sunday evening from the Olympic races, I watched the wonderful film “Dog Heart” by Vladimir Bortko. By the way, Vladimir Pozner considers this picture one of the greatest film adaptations of a literary work. But that is not the point. And the fact that one of the episodes of the tragicomedy returned me to the games, which on Monday made a powerful jerk in the "future".

Remember the scene in which four entered the hero of Yevgeny Evstigneev? "Firstly, are you a man or a woman?" - asks Dr. Preobrazhensky, turning to a woman dressed in a man. “What's the difference, comrade”? - the chairman of the Domkom Schonder is indignant. And then Vyazemskaya declares: "I am a woman!" These are incomprehensible affairs were going on at the Olympic Tag of the Seedgians in the category over 87 kg.

But still one more lyrical digression. In 2000, I attended the collection of our weightlifters before a trip to Sydney. And when the beautiful half of the athletes, along with my coach, went for dinner, I asked the mentor of the male team Yuri Plotnikov: “How do you look at women who are pulling iron?” Yuri Borisovich sighed and betrayed: for me, this is strange. But we have a free country. If they want and they like it, then - please! " So, of course, you can treat the female bar differently. Like female hockey, female struggle or any other sport in which girls and women try on the original male roles. If you want, then why not! The taste and color, as you know ... The men are engaged, for example, synchronized swimming, well, and wonderful.

And everything, as they say, was normal. But a year ago, the International Olympic Committee, following the trends of time, made a very ambiguous decision, allowing transgender people to participate in the XXXI Summer Games. And the 43-year-old Lorel Hubbard, who replaced the floor at the age of 35, won after the “transformation” of the 2017 World Cup, gathered in Tokyo to become the first of its kind.

Here, however, again you have to make a small excursion into history. To be completely honest, then to Laurel at the Olympiads at the beginning and middle of the last century, men opposed women. “Gender tricks” were practiced by both representatives of the Country of Soviets and figures from Germany. Here, Alexander Chudin can be remembered, and Doru-Genrich Ratien. Yes, many “transformations” remained unexpressed then, since the sexual test was introduced only in 1966, otherwise ... This is what our first Olympic champion, the disc, the thrower of the disk Nina Ponomarev-Romashkova: “There were men in the women's team of my generation. They can be seen! They brought the country medals and records, so the authorities rejoiced and closed their eyes until the sex control appeared ... ”But, I emphasize that they did not catch anyone for the causal place, so all this remained in an unofficial folder“ completely unequivocally ”.

Now, the deceit of Lorel Hubbard has become an officially reality. If it seems to you that I am opposing transgender people and somehow trying to infringe on their rights, then you are deeply mistaken. Let one hundred flowers bloom. I'm just for honest sport. Hubbard can consider herself a woman, but what should her rivals think and think? By the way, according to the IOC rules established by the IOC, the level of testosterone in the blood of the “athlete” to participate in female disassembly should not exceed 10 nanomole during the year.

For reference: In the blood of an ordinary man, this indicator ranges from 7.7 to 29.4, and in women this hormone jumps from 0.12 to 1.79.

And how can I not recall that the runner from South Africa Caster Semyon did not get to Japan precisely because its testosterone was higher than 5, which already violates the requirements of the International Athletics Federation. And against this background, the Olympic "nanomular" increase looks strange, is it? However, when the evil people signed a petition against the participation of the barlust Lorel in the games and sent to the IOC, the document was successfully lost ...

But closer to the platform. Since the Russian central channels did not broadcast the battle of the Seals (ours did not participate in this form), Laurel’s debut was seen, I am sure, few. By the way, the historical tennis final in the mixture between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Andrei Rublev and Elena Vesnina / Asann Karatsev also passed almost imperceptibly on Sunday. Petrosyan played on the second federal button at the ICS hour, and the “Match TV” at that moment lost the Olympics. The first channel took up several competitions simultaneously, jumping from the arena to the arena. As a result, the fans managed to catch only a few draws in the middle of the golden battle ...

The draw Lorel Hubbard ended quickly and did not turn around the gold medal, as experts predicted. Moreover, to the joy of all non -recovery personalities, a fat zero was registered in the New Zealanda protocol. But I watched in real time a competing force and I claim that in reality everything was not as sad as in fact. The 146-kilogram habbard pushed out from behind the curtains under the heavy rock. But the second weight (125 kg) took, although the judges did not count the approach due to a technical error. Lorel, whose male muscles was visible to the naked eye, could cope in the third attempt to be more modest and calmly continuing the struggle. She left 125 kg on the griffen, did not hold the bar and self -destructed. And in my opinion, in my opinion, it could not be. After all, if Laurel Nafintil on the medal, officials from the IOC, led by Thomas Bach, would be tortured to make excuses to all the non -aggressive world and other backward athletes for their reckless decision. And for sure Hubbard whispered how to behave. Moreover, the journalists have already prepared bombing articles about the “heavy female fraction”. “I was very worried and burned out,” Laurel said half an hour later. But it is better to pay attention to her other words: "I went to the games not for medals, but for the sake of promoting diversity in sports." And this, whatever one may say, a dangerous precedent, which will probably turn into huge problems for the IOC in the future.

I repeat, I am not against diversity, but human rights should not go against sports principles.

Otherwise, the lady’s rebellion flesh from the flesh, dissatisfied with rivalry with the “aliens”, will soon raise. By the way, the Canadian football player Rebecca Quinn also positions himself as a transgender. Like the American skateboarder Alan Smith. But the beauties who were born to women and considered themselves “non -bureau athletes” at the Games participated in women's tournaments, and not in male. And no scandals were born. Unless the commentators who used the pronoun “She” in relation to Alan and Rebecca virtually received from the ears from advanced sports lovers.

... Fortunately, the sensations in the first August days in Tokyo were enough without Laurel Hubbard. What is the gold medal, which was divided among themselves in the height of Murtaz Barshim and Dzhanmarko Tamberi, who conquered 2.37. The thing is that, according to the regulations, they had to arrange a jump, but the judges offered them a friendly compromise, and the Qatar and the Italian galloped in an empty stadium in an embrace. The planet was surprised by the other Apennice Marseille Jacobs, who took the most prestigious reward of the Olympiad - gold on the hundred -meter (Europeans have not won this distance since 1992). Julimar Rohas, who flew in a triple jump on 15.67 and broke the Inessa Kravets 26-year-old record, also entered the history. And the 38-year-old Cuban wrestler Mikhain Lopez, having overwhelmed Georgian Jacob Kajayu, turned into a four-time Olympic champion, thereby surpassing the achievement of Alexander Karelin.

As for the speeches of the Russians, in a series of silver medals (there are more than 20 of them), I would note a bronze success in the team sprint on the bicycle track Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva.

... And in a well -known competition, the Seedgians won the Chinese woman Lee Wenwan, who raised 320 kg in the amount of classic biases (140 in a jerk + 180 in a push).