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the episode. Welcome back to Hiddo 2024's coverage of the Paris Olympics. This just in,

women are good at women's sports. It's true, folks. It's true. Jeremy, I'll kick it over to you.

Would you like to fill in our dear listeners on what's going on in the realm of women's boxing? The latest from Paris is that some women are really good at boxing. In fact, some women, after they train for a long time, can hit real hard. Really? Do tell. Real hard. Really hard. They're hitting real hard out there. my gosh. I've heard allegations coming from Italian boxers that some women, one woman in particular from Algeria, is hitting so hard it's as if she was hit by a man.

Transvestigations are launching at the Olympics, people.

For an Algerian boxer when it's like illegal to be trans in Algeria. It's illegal to be gay in Algeria.

I highly doubt they're going to send a trans person out there to represent the entire

country in boxing.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

Like we're in fucking Moulon.

More seriously, this week in Olympic women's boxing, there was a match between an

Italian and an Algerian, and the Italian dropped out of the match within like, well, like 45 seconds or some shit like that. Like, I don't think she finished the boxing match. Yeah, it was less than a minute, and she said there was like really sharp pain in her nose, either because she was hit real hard or something else. I don't, you know, when you're, when you're in the sport where it's literally punching

and getting punched back,

I feel like we should expect to be hit hard.

She got fucking rocked in the face because it's, it's boxing. It's a get good moment. It's the one sport where it's appropriate to rock your opponent in the face. And she said, I've never been hit that hard before and literally launched just a a worldwide transvestigation

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