Alex Youngman

Fascinating insights from arguably the best translator of sport science there is!

It only took: Eight years of notebooks of tracking stats. Six years after presenting my findings for the first time. @fairplaywomen @sharrond62 Five years after writing the first peer-reviewed paper that established an evidence base for policy making. @TLexercise @Scienceofsport An onslaught of abuse. Multiple institutional complaints, and attempts to trash my credibility. Arguments to force retractions. A report to the U.K. police. A trans-identifying male tweeting about me 400 times a month, while making vulgar remarks about his breasts. No platforming and refusals to even be in the same room as me. IOC-backed scientists calling me TERF in secret groups. IOC-backed scientists making published arguments to ignore my papers. IOC “scientists” snarling at me in a public forum. An IOC sociologist inventing a whole new term to describe my approach, as if “biofeminism” was a pejorative 😂 An IOC-backed journal rejecting an extensive and well-backed critique of the IOC policy that has now been thrown out (because transphobe, testosterone doesn’t map to performance anyway, and other such bullshit). So many - far too many - private apologies from those too concerned to be publicly associated with me. The IOC didn’t need this scientific review. The work was already done, by those of us who have worked diligently for years to synthesise and analyse evidence, to consider arguments and examine counter arguments, all in the public domain. And all of whom have suffered the same backlash. @runthinkwrite @cathydevine56 Male development leads to male sporting advantage, and it’s baked in. It’s that simple.

Great to feature in @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/65600…

If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was. @FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods. theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s-m…

He was actually a freak

What these results actually show is an athletically relatively mediocre male whose results are similar to superior females BECAUSE of male biology. It is the very definition of advantage, but they distort it to pretend otherwise. We discuss at 18:08 here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/spo…

I don’t know if boxing history will be kind to Lomachenko..a pro record of 18-3 maybe doesn’t read too well BUT for those of us that were lucky to have watched all 21 of those professional fights we knew we were watching an artist in the ring. A boxing genius, who I will miss greatly. I’m sad but also happy he has decided to retire. Age, weight and injuries caught up with him in the end but boy oh boy did he entertain us all

@IIHFHockey @SwissIceHockey Great but your streaming isn’t working on your website so we can’t watch it live. Any update on when it will be fixed?

🇨🇭 @SwissIceHockey powers ahead with their third goal! 🚨 #MensWorlds #IIHF

@IIHFHockey your streaming for AUS vs SVK and USA vs SUI right now is not working. Any update on why and when it will be better?

Reform would not only require new transmission lines to be buried underground, but force the National Grid to tear down (!) newly built pylons. This would be very expensive - costing every household in Britain around £365. Let's crunch the numbers. 🧵

Why Your Body Loves Intense Exercise (Even if You Don’t) webmd.com/fitness-exerci… from @WebMD;

You'd have thought I'd learned my lesson? Arguing with punters who post seemingly plausible theories - none proven or remotely relevant - about doubling muscle growth... Don't play with pigeons! Here's what regulates muscle growth: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Strong outfit

Ive learnt a lot from reading Emma Hilton’s work, a developmental biologist. Who explains how confusion like this can occur in the first place and what it means. If you’re asking genuine questions like me, as she says, it’s worth a read.

Small snipped out bit from our latest podcast. If you're waiting for the IOC to step in on behalf of women's safety & fairness, you'll be waiting a long time. Males in women's sport is 100% the consequence of their leadership. So, they're not worried; they'll be celebrating it.

An entirely fair summation that players bailed him out a lot this tournament. But Saka (22), Bellingham (19), Mainoo (19), Palmer (22) are all grads of the EPPP era and Southgate is one of the architects. England finally caught up to France/Spain in terms of youth development

Ronaldo reaching embarrassingly high levels of hero-ball and petulance tonight, even by his standards. There’s so much quality in this squad (and a nation with some of the best academies in the world) that I actually think he’s a complete hindrance by this point

An alternative view on what is wrong with #Eng (it has to do with balance of the team and the trust on names instead of role fillers, but what I will say next too, I think) YOU are all to blame There is no risk, passes are predictable, nobody does anything special or different... Because they are scared, nobody wants to be the player that gets abused on social media or the one blamed for failure. You have seen through the years what happens to the scapegoats Fear takes risk away, which takes confidence away, which makes the team easy to defend against and lacking in creativity This has been going on for decades. The closer success is likely (or the more is demanded), the more that pressure you all put the team under to win (as if there was a divine right for England to win) makes fear prominent No other national team gets this (toxic?) pressured to win, I don't think

Good lord, how anyone vaguely intelligent could believe this drivel is entirely beyond me. You’re not an Anglo Saxon old son, and no DNA test can prove otherwise. Because Anglo Saxons no longer exist. Literally every European has Anglo Saxon ancestry.