The Day the Olympics Died

It's official -it's over- and when they finally admit it remember you heard it here first. July 30 2021 was The Day the Olympics Died.

As a child I was always going to enjoy watching the Olympics on tv. I was an active little beggar who competed in about six different sports with the maniacal  enthusiasm of youth and boredom. Going to a foreign country as part of a national team to play exciting games while collecting medals and applause looked to me like a great job -one I might even choose if I discovered that kind of talent and dedication within me. 

Of course, as it turned out my talents and dedication were focussed more heavily on things like beer, horses and attractive women (not necessarily in that order but frequently all three within a matter of hours). My fantasies of Olympic glory were, tragically, abandoned with the arrival of puberty and the shocking (to me) news that Olympians were amateurs who didn't get paid. (Younger readers should be aware that for most of the 20th century, this bare-faced lie of "Olympic amateurism" was trumpeted by the same mainstream media who spent 2020/21 insisting there was a "gobal pandemic" and only blind obedience to a new fascist regime could save the human race from extinction). 

Another incentive to binge-watch the Olympics, back in the day, was the possibility of those rare but fascinatingly weird events that used to occur during live sports broadcasts. In 1968, for example, a few black prize-winners from America shocked viewers by giving rather fascistic-looking "black power" salutes while getting their medals. (Nowadays, of course, you need to get a bit more jiggy than that to shock anyone). In 1972, committed Olympic box-watchers like myself boggled as a group of Israelis were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists and that whole story played out with helicopters, grenades and the gruesome, repugnant death of most people involved. 

In the end, however,  the Olympics was really just television sport for couch potatoes and I can't be the only one who began to turn off the whole idea once the nutjobs who ran the Games started including nonsense like synchronised swimming. Gradually I detached from the Olympics, in much the same way as I would eventually detatch from party politics, polite society, urban living and television itself. In 2012 the Games finally came to London but I had taken the precaution of leaving  over a decade before.   

Nothing much about the last few editions of the Olympic Games has stuck in my head because I simply ignored them, although I retain a hazy impression of it all being increasingly  'political'. That was just one more reason to steer clear (for me), as I deplore the politicisation of sport, not least because a very large number of the athletes eager to signal their virtues merely demonstrate how their impressive physical maturity is balanced out by their dire intellectual shortcomings. Let's be real-what kind of societal analysis would you expect to get from people who spend their lives obsessing on, say, 'throwing the hammer' or running twenty yards to jump a very long way into a sandpit?

In this context, you will understand that I assumed nothing whatsoever was going to attract me to engage with this summer's Japanese jamboree. I could not miss, however, the headline announcing that the International Olympic Comittee has flopped into the corporate missionary position and opened the women's events to transgender competitors. Indeed, they are actually "encouraging" trans-womwen to compete. And so, July 30th 2021 (I predict) will one day be remembered as The Day The Olympics Died. 

 

In a world already overloaded with abuse, deceit and derangement, there is, we see, still room for yet another helping of Wokecide, the cult of self-destruction targetting every last vestige of common sense on the globe we inhabit. Presumably the imbeciless of the IOC are aware that their idiotic decision will, at a stroke, effectively put an end to women's sport. 

It is a very short matter of a time now -about four years I'd guess-  until every Olympic 'womens' event is won by someone who came into this world with the full meat and two veg chromosomic arrangement that bestows enormous physical advantages over what we once dared to call the 'fair sex'. Tough on you, ladies, is the message from the IOC.

Yet, for the ever-growing army of trans-activists this will, no doubt, be seen as a landmark moment - a red-letter day in the heartbreaking, endless march against 'hetero-normative discrimination'. Who cares if womens sport is obliterated without trace? This is progressive.  

Well, to that very vocal, very righteous group, I will offer a little history-lesson which may help them position themselves in the correct bracket of 'progressive' politics. 

 

At the "Nazi" Olympics held in Berlin in 1936, a woman named Dora Ratjen competed in the women's high-jump event. Two years later, in 1938, 'Dora' won gold medal at the European Athletics Championships. Her winning jump broke the  world womens' record (a common transgender occurence in modern sport where biological males trounce the actual women). But then Dorothy Tyler-Odam, -the woman whose record was shattered in 1938- informed the International Association of Athletics Federations that in her opinion Dora was actually a man. 

The IAAF investigated and found "Dora" working as a waiter named Hermann Ratjen. Hermann was, unsurprisingly, equipped with the full set of male sexual organs. Depending on which mainstream media you want to believe, Hermann also had a vagina of sorts, but reports vary as to how functional -if at all- this organ was. 

In 1966, Time magazine published a report claiming that Hermann had "tearfully confessed" that the Nazi regime had persuaded him to compete as a woman in an effort to boost the German medal tally. Hermann was quoted as saying ""For three years I livedthe life of a girl. It was most dull." (I will put my oar in here and say that if I was going to invent a quote I'd have come up with something a bit more entertaining than that.)

There is, however, no proof that Time magazine ever interviewed Dora/Hermann Ratj. Readers should bear in mind that Time magazine has always been a tool of the political establishment, printing only stories which the "authorities" wish to see promoted. In 1966, only 20 years after world war two, it was still fashionable to invent titillating news stories about the Nazi regime. Think of Time as the Wikipedia of its day -i.e. untrustworthy and ethically corrupt. 

Nevertheless, Time's reporting on the 1936 trans-jumper went unquestioned for several decades. Indeed, in 2009, a 'fictionalised' film titled Berlin 36 was released, with a script based on the original Time magazine article. The Times of London reviewed the film under the headline " "Berlin 36 tells how Nazis replaced Jewish woman athlete for man in drag".  

Fashions in Germany had changed however, and by 2009 anything "trans" was a very hot potato for their establishment broadsheet newspaper Der Spiegel. A campaign was (bizarrely) launched to discredit the Time magazine article, 54 years after it appeared, and seems to have succeeded.  A variety of revisionist claims are now circulating in the mainstream, invariably suggesting that "Dora" was simply a closet "trans" person, whose experiences werer merely historical examples of the "horrific prejudice" transexuals are claimed to experience today. Wikipedia itself features a picture of this controversial athlete captioned (naturally) Dora Ratj. 

Well, now it's 2021, and if Heinrich/Dora/Hermann was around today we'd be watching him/her/zee collect their medal and the wokerati would be patting themselves on the back for a job well done. As indeed they soon will be, given the amount of dick-swingers lined up to compete in the 2021 female events. And the moral of the story? Well, my trans-activist friends, if you want to turn the Olympic Games into a laughing stock, perhaps you don't actually need to have a huge army of politically-motivated authoritarian fanatics twisting your arm. You don't really need to behave like Hitler's Nazis. But as the IOC just found out, it sure helps.

Ian Andrew-Patrick  

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