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From: Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
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Subject: Re: Politics infect bicycle race
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:19:18 +0200
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Am 26.04.2025 um 01:38 schrieb Shadow:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:22:57 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/25/2025 1:19 PM, Shadow wrote:
>>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:55:06 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://catholicvote.org/homeschooled-student-denied-first-place-medal-new-zealand-mountain-bike-competition
>>>
>>> 	Not politics, just common sense
>>>
>>> 	"homeschooled students have an unfair advantage because they
>>> can train all day while their peers are in school."
>>>
>>> 	TRUE
>>>
>>> 	"What parent is actually going to think that it’s sensible
>>> even that their kid just trains all day and doesn’t prepare for
>>> everything else in life?"
>>>
>>> 	Every single sociopathic parent that ever existed. Just look
>>> at the lives of "child" models, actors, singers and most athletes.
>>> Their parents get rich, and at 30 they are sometimes pennyless and
>>> usually more ignorant than someone that didn't go to school at all.
>>> 	IMHO
>>> 	[]'s
>>>
>>> 	PS Britney Jean Spears started her "professional career" when
>>> she was 3 years old. Her father, a religious fanatic and a raving
>>> alcoholic (IOW, a "conservative") held her purse-strings until she was
>>> over 30.... "for her own good" of course.
>>
>> Along those lines of thought, the organizers should not have
>> collected entry fees from disfavored contestants.
> 
> 	Almost a scam, unless the rules said quite clearly that
> home-schooled children would get a "certificate" and not a medal. 

This reminds me of my grandad.  A few weeks before his School Finals, he 
took part in the German Rowing Championships (Dresden, 1921) as a cox, 
winning the 8's easily by more than a boat length.
They got a gold medal but the second finishers were celebrated as German 
Champions (Aussig - today Usti - was in Czechoslovakia).