@bargepole for all your laudable attempts to avoid writing tediously long missives, to throw a Mensa score into the ring as if it is armour against mistaking the policy decisions of governing bodies … (View Post)

The counterpoint being that the IBF have not made their findings known to anyone and this is a woman who has competed extensively without any issue until that IBF intervention, yet now all and sundry… (View Post)

Summary: an organisation for reasons unknown made a ruling and another organisation did not follow suit - @bargepole‘s list of questions about this episode is limited to the organisation that did not… (View Post)

Sounds like your browser is set to Private/Incognito mode, have you been visiting some special interest sites and forgotten to flip back? (View Post)

The ancient games used to have all sorts of artistic disciplines, they understood well the link between the body and the mind, put the two alongside each other and celebrated high achievement in both… (View Post)