The 2020 Tokyo Games is replacing “Men’s Double Trap, Men’s 50m Rifle Prone, and Men’s 50m Pistol events” with “Trap Mixed Gender Team, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Gender Team, and 10m Air Pistol Mixed Gender Team events.” Two of the events being replaced have been part of the Olympics for over 100 years.
I guess it’s better than the “Confused About My Own Gender” event that Bruce Jenner wanted to add.
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If the Olympic Committee truly wants to strive for gender equality, then it shouldn’t be “Mixed Gender” teams, it should just be a shooting team, with each country putting up its best shooters, regardless of their gender.
Similarly, I don’t want to see a mixed relay team. I want to see a men’s relay team, since the men’s team will ALWAYS post faster times.
These freakin’ people with this goofy-a$$ gender obsession! ive it up always and use what little common sense you might have left!
Male or female…anything else is aberration!
Every four years, the shame of Atlanta’s tacky, pipe-bombed olympics recedes a little further in the rear view mirror. Thank you, IOC and Corrupt Cities of the World for stepping in buckets year after year.
How about a Chicago style drive by shooting competition with both genders, including kids, participating as victims! Or, how many transgenders can squeeze into a Target size bathroom! Or how many men (five per team) can dress their way into the woman reporters locker room and actually shower with a normal woman or women! Or how much bribe money can teams emulating the Olympic Committee generate during the course of the games!
I did not need an excuse for not watching this stupidity every four years. These “games”
which I refer to as the “fun and games” have never been about athletic competition,
They are the pathfinders for political correctness and participation trophies.
Mixed Gender – Doesn’t mean anything. You are whatever you woke up this morning feeling you are.
Is there a requirement to declare your gender? Can you change your gender during the competition?
So to improve their dismal viewership among millennials they LBGT it up?
Interestingly enough “Couple” competition in a Three Gun and some Pistol competitions is starting to get popular. Unfortunately I’m sure this has nothing to do with their decision.
Brad, nowadays how do you define, or even restrict what a couple is?
How the hell does Tokyo get to change the games like that. I thought new and changed games had to go through a demonstration period at prior games before being voted on by the IOC. I don’t mind mixed teams but there is a process. Next to be changed will be the equestrian events followed by volleyball and then rules on how many girls must be on each team. It will all end up as a summer inter company softball league.
This is my rifle! This is my gun!
This is for fighting! This is for fun!
Olympics will be a nothing burger in 10 years.
This is a joke, right. Are you friggin kidding me? It’s no wonder I don’t really care about the Olympics anymore. Politics and big money and political correctness have killed not just the Olympics but just about every sport over the past 10-20 years. I still love baseball and NASCAR but pretty much have given up on other sports except maybe College basketball during March Madness.
So…if Jenner enters this competition, does he/she NOT need a partner?
Have not gave 2 shits about the olympics since before caitlyn Jenner was Bruce.
If any shooting range doesn’t have a car door/window
with a bench seat next to it, it’s racist, they need to
shoot out a car window.