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#athletes — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #athletes, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Associated Press: SafeSport Sees Big Jump in Visitors to Banned Database After Announcing Sanctions Publicly. “The U.S. Center for SafeSport more than doubled the number of new visitors to its online Centralized Disciplinary Database in the month after it started making public announcements about people placed on its banned list.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/associated-press-safesport-sees-big-jump-in-visitors-to-banned-database-after-announcing-sanctions-publicly/
  2. Associated Press: SafeSport Sees Big Jump in Visitors to Banned Database After Announcing Sanctions Publicly. “The U.S. Center for SafeSport more than doubled the number of new visitors to its online Centralized Disciplinary Database in the month after it started making public announcements about people placed on its banned list.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/associated-press-safesport-sees-big-jump-in-visitors-to-banned-database-after-announcing-sanctions-publicly/
  3. Associated Press: SafeSport Sees Big Jump in Visitors to Banned Database After Announcing Sanctions Publicly. “The U.S. Center for SafeSport more than doubled the number of new visitors to its online Centralized Disciplinary Database in the month after it started making public announcements about people placed on its banned list.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/associated-press-safesport-sees-big-jump-in-visitors-to-banned-database-after-announcing-sanctions-publicly/
  4. Associated Press: SafeSport Sees Big Jump in Visitors to Banned Database After Announcing Sanctions Publicly. “The U.S. Center for SafeSport more than doubled the number of new visitors to its online Centralized Disciplinary Database in the month after it started making public announcements about people placed on its banned list.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/associated-press-safesport-sees-big-jump-in-visitors-to-banned-database-after-announcing-sanctions-publicly/
  5. Associated Press: SafeSport Sees Big Jump in Visitors to Banned Database After Announcing Sanctions Publicly. “The U.S. Center for SafeSport more than doubled the number of new visitors to its online Centralized Disciplinary Database in the month after it started making public announcements about people placed on its banned list.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/associated-press-safesport-sees-big-jump-in-visitors-to-banned-database-after-announcing-sanctions-publicly/
  6. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  7. Thursday, August 20, 2026

    Russian ballistic missile, drone attack on Kyiv strikes children's hospital, residential buildings . . . . . Ukraine can now forcibly evacuate children from the front line. Critics say it’s not that simple . . . . . Ukraine hits rocket and space center, aircraft plant in Russia's Samara Oblast . . . . . Fire Point confirms ballistic missile to be combat-ready in September . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  8. Associated Press: Bryce Harper says FanDuel used his Cameo video as VIP reward without consent in a gambler’s case. “Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper said he did not know a Cameo video he recorded would be used by FanDuel as a reward for a VIP customer who later sued the sportsbook, saying it took advantage of his gambling addiction.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/15/associated-press-bryce-harper-says-fanduel-used-his-cameo-video-as-vip-reward-without-consent-in-a-gamblers-case/
  9. Wednesday, February 18, 2026

    SBU strikes chemical factory used for explosives production deep inside Russia -- "If you stop, you die;" Inside Ukraine's last fight for Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad -- Winter has grounded Ukraine's interceptor drones, gutting Kyiv's air defense -- From the Gulag to Ukraine: The Kyiv Independent exposes Russia's culture of torture in new documentary ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  10. 'We've become role models': French para athletes hail legacy of the Paris Games.

    Three weeks before the World Para Athletics Championships open in New Delhi, dozens of stars from France's Paralympics movement gathered just outside Paris to celebrate the success of the 2024 Games – an event athletes say marked a turning point in how their sports are perceived.

    mediafaro.org/article/20250914

    #WorldParaAthleticsChampionships #Paralympics #Paris2024 #Sport #Athletes #Olympics #France

  11. There are currently more Republicans in the Senate than trans athletes competing at the college level. 53 in the Senate, 10 athletes in the United States.
    And states w/ #transgender #athletes have higher participation from girls than states w/ bans, their arguments are baseless.
    These fascists are even denying benefits to trans servicemembers they've expunged; welcome to the #PinkScare.
    #trans #rights #are #human rights #gender #affirming #health #care is #HealthCare
    glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-repor

  12. Competitive #athletes are always looking for an extra edge that can help them improve #performance. According to a new study they can find one in the common #cranberry.
    #NutritionalScience #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2024/03/nut03192401

  13. The policy reads: “#USAFencing will not #discriminate on the basis of #genderidentity, regardless of #sexassignedatbirth, or any other form of #gender #expression for #participation in any division. As such, #athletes will be permitted to participate in USA-#Fencing-sanctioned #events in a manner consistent with their #genderidentity/ #expression, regardless of the #gender associated with the #sex they were assigned at #birth.”

  14. "#Terfs after they get butch #women kicked out of #womens #bathrooms for looking too much like a #man, call #cis women men #because they don't fit a #white #western #beauty #standard, say #people who've had mastectomies (which are mostly cancer patients) are mutilated, reduce women down to their #anatomy, act like #trans men are #clueless little #girls who can't #think for themselves, say women are naturally worse at #sports and #quiz #shows and beauty #pageants than men, flash a fake bush in #parliament with #children present, rile up so much #bullshit about trans #athletes that now there's #laws being made where little girls have to have #genital #inspections, and throw #intersex people under the bus at every #opportunity"

    tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollec