{"id":21953,"date":"2023-03-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/a-roundup-of-this-weeks-absurd-moments-in-the-sports-world\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:00:00","slug":"a-roundup-of-this-weeks-absurd-moments-in-the-sports-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/a-roundup-of-this-weeks-absurd-moments-in-the-sports-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A roundup of this week&#8217;s absurd moments in the sports world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>The on-court Madness can\u2019t distract from the absolute absurdity off it, with WTF moments spanning track &amp; field, hockey and sports journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Athletics: <\/strong>Track &amp; field\u2019s international governing body<a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-tk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted yesterday to exclude some transgender women athletes<\/a><strong> <\/strong>from competition starting March 31st. The org\u2019s new policy bars trans athletes who have gone through \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-tu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male puberty<\/a>\u201d from competing in female events, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a similar stance<\/a> to the one world swimming adopted last year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ban also imposes limits on athletes with sex development differences, meaning Olympic champion South Africa\u2019s Caster Semenya (who is not transgender) must undergo hormone-suppression treatment before \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-ir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competing to be eligible<\/a>.\u201d Yeah, this is <em>not <\/em>it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NHL Pride Nights: <\/strong>Keep the boos coming because a fourth NHL team is refusing to wear Pride warm-up jerseys on their own Pride Night. The latest offenders? The much maligned Chicago Blackhawks, whose management cited <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-iy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security concerns<\/a> for their two Russian players ahead of Sunday\u2019s puck drop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, Eric and Marc Staal, brothers on the Florida Panthers, protested their team\u2019s Pride celebration by <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-ij\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusing to come out for warm-ups at all<\/a> last night, citing \u201creligious differences.\u201d Weird way to spell \u201chomophobia.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sports journalism: <\/strong>A Boston sports radio host was suspended yesterday after using an ethnic slur to describe incredible ESPN analyst Mina Kimes. The station initially played the \u201che\u2019s sexist, not racist\u201d card, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fhthhld-jitklkutjh-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claiming that the host<\/a> was referencing the actress Mila Kunis, not Kimes, when he used the slur that heightened in use during World War II to refer to Japanese people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wish we were kidding, but true to her iconic ways, Kimes \u2014 who is Korean, not Japanese \u2014 had the last laugh, briefly changing her Twitter profile picture to a photo of Kunis. No choice but to stan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/1279f7a9-c384-4e1c-894b-83c4c1dbafb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: The on-court Madness can\u2019t distract from the absolute absurdity off it, with WTF moments spanning track &amp; field, hockey and sports journalism. World Athletics: Track &amp; field\u2019s international governing bodyvoted yesterday to exclude some transgender women athletes from competition starting March 31st. 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