Michael ❄️

"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive." Charles Péguy Notre Patrie, 1905

@LillydaEast @philprestwich @KemiBadenoch @Jebadoo2 Not Donald’s. Might turn my hands orange. Like I’d been eating Cheetos

At least now little girls who dream of Olympic medals will know that biological males can't cheat their way onto their podium...or punch them relentlessly in the face and get a medal for it. Credit to Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova, who spoke up despite attacks from those who should've known better. They spoke up when it was easier to stay quiet and paid the price in lost income and support.

@jfullerucla @RichardEdinger @TessW62 @KemiBadenoch Called being male.

@philprestwich @LillydaEast @KemiBadenoch @Jebadoo2 When they need their pussies grabbed

@LillydaEast @KemiBadenoch @Jebadoo2 Trump helps women? 🤣🤣🤣

@Shambles151 @RuthlessTweets @WomenReadWomen Rodger, mate, you’re an absolute melt. Keely Hodgkinson is a superb athlete and Olympic champion. She’d be beaten by hundreds of men. The female category allows us to celebrate superb women instead of mediocre males larping as women.

@RuthlessTweets @WomenReadWomen Supporting women in sport isn't the same thing as supporting an 'easier' category that lets women win by excluding men & condemns all sportswomen to compulsory testing. I think defending an 'easier' category - is an insult to fine sportswomen. Just watched the Lionesses BTW.

Now that we know for a fact that all of the top athletes to place in Rio 2016 800M were men - now that we know that male athletes with DSDs were protected by sporting authorities - what should be done for the women who lost their dreams, and couldn't complain due to politics?

@ThePrizeForce @cyclingweekly And you just know the lion’s share of subscription money is paying for football rights. RIP Eurosport

@cyclingweekly Maddening. I have no interest in paying to watch football, rugby, etc. I just want cycling and 30 pounds per month is too much.

TNT Sports is moving to HBO Max today – and you can watch cycling for £5 less a month cyclingweekly.com/news/tnt-sport…

@taylod1974 @afneil Whether he voted for it is irrelevant. He gets accused of promoting it, or cheerleading for it, when to the best of my recollection, he was neutral.

@afneil Andrew gets accused of being a brexiteer every day it seems. He could put it to bed and just say if he voted for it or not. If you read his tweets I think it’s obvious he voted for it, but he won’t say it and I kind of understand why as a journalist he wants to appear impartial.

Exactly.

@afneil I still miss This Week btw.

@Mr_barba97 @ChemiNorth @afneil Everything he’s ever written is public record. If he pushed for it, it should be easy to find. I was a big fan of This Week and don’t recall him expressing an opinion either way.

@ChemiNorth @afneil He didn’t answer that question cause he undoubtedly pushed for it and now it’s apparent how bad a decision it was

It’s a matter of public record I was Chairman of The Spectator from 2005 till 2024. My most crucial role was to protect the editor’s independence in formulating policy, in which I played no role.

@Adam80611368 I rarely sympathise with Wales, but you’re quite right. Ireland had a clear warning, then gave away penalties on their try line.

Oh ok, Ireland give away loads of penalties in their own half and get away with it, we give away one and get yellow carded. Ireland also score from a forward pass. Fuck the refs of this sport. They’re shit. #IREvWAL

@afneil Starmer has made a lot of mistakes and probably should have resigned by now. However on this one he’s spot on. He thought America’s actions were illegal, so he didn’t help them. You wouldn’t lend someone your car, if you knew they were going to use it to rob a bank.

He refused the US use of two of its bases on British sovereign territory. It wasn’t a big ask. He should have agreed. Instead he refused — then was forced to U-turn (there’s a surprise). But the damage to Anglo-American relations was done.

@lb78437 @Ambar_SIFF_MRA The point of women’s sport is to allow fair competition. Sports like tennis have very popular women’s competitions with massive sponsorships and highly paid athletes.

@Ambar_SIFF_MRA WNBA is charity. Most women's sports is. Women's figure skaking is not. Women's gymnastics is not ...although this is dominated by girls, not women. Women's chess is charity. Women's golf...women's soccer....any sport men created but has a "Women's" division is charity.

Skill gap is a natural fact. Pretending that it doesn't exist is delusional and annoying.

@MightyHalkin @lb78437 @Ambar_SIFF_MRA Tennis?

@lb78437 @Ambar_SIFF_MRA I do not think their is a single female sports league that actually makes money in the entire world.

@SGSFOX @AmericaPapaBear Better than the 1970 Brazil 🇧🇷 team?

@AmericaPapaBear The USA women's soccer team is filled with household names and is inarguably the greatest team in the history of their sport?

Notice the difference between the USA women’s hockey team and the USA women’s soccer team?

@briankchildress @espn @usskiteam @MikaelaShiffrin I’m sure they’re devastated

MIKAELA SHIFFRIN IN GOLD ONCE AGAIN 🥇 This is her third Olympic gold, the most Olympic alpine gold medals won by any American skier 🇺🇸

@HornHoff @varadmehta Sorry, my mistake, three gold medals

@varadmehta She just can't get it done at the Olympics.....even with the lead Breezy Johnson gave her! In baseball terms, she was already on first base and was run down by the batter who started from home plate.

"For three years and 11 months out of every four years, Mikaela Shiffrin is by far the best alpine skier in the world." Then comes that 48th month and she turns into a pumpkin. It is what it is. Michael Phelps she is not.

@Ghazzali_Mind @JohnCleese You can hold anything you want sacred, just accept that others don’t agree with you. Hounding a teacher out of his job and home, for showing a few cartoons is fucking deranged

Some people don’t care too much about their parents, you can mock their parents in front of them and they may get mildly upset. Others love their parents to an extent that they will cut you off from any future friendship. Violence should never be tolerated. But when you openly mock a group about something they hold sacred, its not only contrary to civilized society, it is a threat to national unity. Just because you don’t hold anything sacred doesn’t mean you should expect the rest of the world to follow your example.

I just want Islam to be treated in the same way as the British treat all religions That is, criticism is allowed As in Life of Brian

@Secret_World1a @lindseyvonn Not really an energy boost, are you? More like a drain.

@lindseyvonn that 'no regrets' line is gonna feel heavy when you're exhausted and questioning everything

This is a hard road I’m embarking on but… I can do this 💪🏻 And I still have no regrets. I will always believe in what’s possible. Always.

@HornHoff @varadmehta Aside from her two gold medals, you mean?

@DamijanLes67738 @MikaelaShiffrin @lindseyvonn Because she’s an adult, and a very determined one. You absolute melt.

@MikaelaShiffrin @lindseyvonn Too late for this . Why didn't you stop her ? We all saw this comming ...

💔🙏🙏🙏 @lindseyvonn

@skis42 @rodger She had to do a training run. Considering the injury, she’s hardly going to max effort it, and risk another crash with the race on Sunday.🙄

@rodger While certainlyb impressive if the story is true, that was not an elite level performance by any means

honestly unbelievable: Lindsay Vonn attempted & completed her training run a week after tearing her ACL, hitting a top speed of 74 mph. They haven't fixed her ACL, it's just flopping around in there. And her other knee is made out of titanium. Very literally built different