As a 5 year old child I still remember sitting on my Greek grandfather's knee, listening to his stories of Zeus, Medusa and many other mythological Greek characters. He also told me that in 1896, when he was a young teenager, his father took him to watch the Olympic Games in Athens, which was several hours by horseback from his seaside village. His favorite part of that story was that since the ticket taker at the gate knew his father, he let them in to watch the games for free. A few years later, at the age of only 16, my grandfather immigrated alone to the US, sponsored by an uncle living in Chicago. When he arrived at Ellis Island in New York, speaking only Greek, when asked by the immigration official to spell his name, the official immediately cut his name in half, put an "s" at the end and then yelled "next"! My grandfather later joked that at the time, he wondered if his new American name was "Thermos" or "Next".
As if the French 2025 Olympics were not bad enough with their sacrilegious depiction of a transgender mockery of the Last Supper painting, now this year the opening ceremony featured a flaming inverted pentacle.
With all the bombardment of the Satanic symbolism in the Epstein documents I am horrified that an international celebration of Sport has also been somehow presented as a captured representation of evil.
It is said that Satan must work "in plain sight" and we ignore this blatant symbolism at our peril.
As a Physical Education Major, CSU Long Beach was very fortunate to have a strong supporter of the games. He urged every major to become involved in Olympic events to better understand what a grand adventure they are.
Thank you Dr. Jack Rose. His memory and legacy continues to this day.
Also understand the effort to become and try to reach that level.
Leaving politics out of it...what a great adventure.
Again . . . seriously why? Why do the people who write articles here not even fact-check their own writings? OHHHHHHHHHHH. I get it. It is because they have been told the lie over and over and now think it is a fact.
"Had President Coventry based her decision on fellow swimmer Riley Gaines being forced to take second place on the 2022 platform at the NCCAs to the very masculine trans “female” swimmer, Lia Thomas? "
That NEVER HAPPENED. See, if you told the @#$% truth, your narrative would be blown out of the water.
Think about that for a minute. I know, it destroys all the points you want to make.
Gaines sucked so much that she would not have placed anyway. That also means that Thomas sucked so much that he/she did not place. Yep! FOUR women beat Thomas. No trophy, other than a participation-level trophy, was taken from Gaines and those below, but technically, they still got the participation trophy.
what a goofy @#$% comment. yes, Gaines & Thomas tied for 5th, but in no way does it “destroys all the points you want to make.” Here’s a female swimmer that trained her entire life to reach the pinnacle of sport, made it to the NCAA Swimming Championships meet, did her best competing against the greatest female swim athletes across the country, and she’s required to share a trophy with a male? Think about that for a minute…
Think about how you spoke the partial truth of what transpired, and the OP lied. The OP is trying to paint a picture of Thomas winning and all the women losing, and that if Thomas didn't win, Gaines would have won. That is the @#$ lie.
There is no sharing; Gaines won a damn participation trophy.
Think about it this way. Thomas, as a male as you stated, lost to 4 women. Think hard about that for a minute.
The reality is much different than what the OP painted.
Listen, I think there are issues at play here, and there has to be a solution. Wrestling has this figured out; they do it by weight. I think other sports can figure something out similar to that.
That cartoon to start the article was all I needed to see. A am amused that some people, this author included feel perfectly fine sharing with the world all of their thoughts but when a brave young athlete, on the worlds biggest sports stage has the courage to state that he is embarrassed about the Idiot in the Oval you jump on him like he is not courageous. To quietly accept the criminality of our current administration would be the cowardly thing. Shame on you.
I guess the raised fist in Mexico means nothing now.
I wonder where all these people were during Obama and Biden's terms? I suppose that because they didn't agree completely with anything that those two did, they were anti-American.
I don't know from Winter Olympics but I sure was glad to Trumpy's reaction to the Super Bowl halftime show - it completely sucked. In fact the whole Super Bowl sucked - lousy game, crappy ads and _the_ worst halftime show ever!
Music is subjective, and by no means am I the demographic of the Super Bowl. I watched it on replay and was like, "Uhh. Ok. This is not for me, but then again, it is nice to see someone current instead of rehashing someone from 25 years ago."
As a 5 year old child I still remember sitting on my Greek grandfather's knee, listening to his stories of Zeus, Medusa and many other mythological Greek characters. He also told me that in 1896, when he was a young teenager, his father took him to watch the Olympic Games in Athens, which was several hours by horseback from his seaside village. His favorite part of that story was that since the ticket taker at the gate knew his father, he let them in to watch the games for free. A few years later, at the age of only 16, my grandfather immigrated alone to the US, sponsored by an uncle living in Chicago. When he arrived at Ellis Island in New York, speaking only Greek, when asked by the immigration official to spell his name, the official immediately cut his name in half, put an "s" at the end and then yelled "next"! My grandfather later joked that at the time, he wondered if his new American name was "Thermos" or "Next".
As if the French 2025 Olympics were not bad enough with their sacrilegious depiction of a transgender mockery of the Last Supper painting, now this year the opening ceremony featured a flaming inverted pentacle.
With all the bombardment of the Satanic symbolism in the Epstein documents I am horrified that an international celebration of Sport has also been somehow presented as a captured representation of evil.
It is said that Satan must work "in plain sight" and we ignore this blatant symbolism at our peril.
Very nice.
As a Physical Education Major, CSU Long Beach was very fortunate to have a strong supporter of the games. He urged every major to become involved in Olympic events to better understand what a grand adventure they are.
Thank you Dr. Jack Rose. His memory and legacy continues to this day.
Also understand the effort to become and try to reach that level.
Leaving politics out of it...what a great adventure.
Thanks Calla good background most do not know.
Scott, did you not notice the politics (cartoon)that she started the article with?
I did and chose to concentrate on the positive of Jack Rose and others.
Merci Scott! CJC
Why?
Again . . . seriously why? Why do the people who write articles here not even fact-check their own writings? OHHHHHHHHHHH. I get it. It is because they have been told the lie over and over and now think it is a fact.
"Had President Coventry based her decision on fellow swimmer Riley Gaines being forced to take second place on the 2022 platform at the NCCAs to the very masculine trans “female” swimmer, Lia Thomas? "
That NEVER HAPPENED. See, if you told the @#$% truth, your narrative would be blown out of the water.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/riley-gaines-trans-athletes.html
Gaines TIED with Thomas for 5th.
Think about that for a minute. I know, it destroys all the points you want to make.
Gaines sucked so much that she would not have placed anyway. That also means that Thomas sucked so much that he/she did not place. Yep! FOUR women beat Thomas. No trophy, other than a participation-level trophy, was taken from Gaines and those below, but technically, they still got the participation trophy.
what a goofy @#$% comment. yes, Gaines & Thomas tied for 5th, but in no way does it “destroys all the points you want to make.” Here’s a female swimmer that trained her entire life to reach the pinnacle of sport, made it to the NCAA Swimming Championships meet, did her best competing against the greatest female swim athletes across the country, and she’s required to share a trophy with a male? Think about that for a minute…
Think about how you spoke the partial truth of what transpired, and the OP lied. The OP is trying to paint a picture of Thomas winning and all the women losing, and that if Thomas didn't win, Gaines would have won. That is the @#$ lie.
There is no sharing; Gaines won a damn participation trophy.
Think about it this way. Thomas, as a male as you stated, lost to 4 women. Think hard about that for a minute.
The reality is much different than what the OP painted.
Listen, I think there are issues at play here, and there has to be a solution. Wrestling has this figured out; they do it by weight. I think other sports can figure something out similar to that.
no thought needed…we live in different worlds…
Correct.
I live in a world where there is fact, not fiction.
You live in a world where fiction is your reality.
Merci DL! CJC
That cartoon to start the article was all I needed to see. A am amused that some people, this author included feel perfectly fine sharing with the world all of their thoughts but when a brave young athlete, on the worlds biggest sports stage has the courage to state that he is embarrassed about the Idiot in the Oval you jump on him like he is not courageous. To quietly accept the criminality of our current administration would be the cowardly thing. Shame on you.
Ding ding ding.
I guess the raised fist in Mexico means nothing now.
I wonder where all these people were during Obama and Biden's terms? I suppose that because they didn't agree completely with anything that those two did, they were anti-American.
I don't know from Winter Olympics but I sure was glad to Trumpy's reaction to the Super Bowl halftime show - it completely sucked. In fact the whole Super Bowl sucked - lousy game, crappy ads and _the_ worst halftime show ever!
Music is subjective, and by no means am I the demographic of the Super Bowl. I watched it on replay and was like, "Uhh. Ok. This is not for me, but then again, it is nice to see someone current instead of rehashing someone from 25 years ago."