The 2014 Winter Olympics: Day 8(ish).

Hello, I'm a little bit drunk. What's more due to the effort of cleaning bathrooms and cooking dinners I've not had the opportunity to write this up in advance. As a result it appears that I'm going to have to do it live, stream of consciousness style.

Due to the aforementioned chores I've not really had the opportunity to look at the incident yesterday (13/2/14) in which a Russian track worker suffered two broken legs following a collision with a bobsleigh. However due to the similarities with the death of Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili at the 2010 Vancouver games I think we should be open to the possibility that this engineered so Russia could point out it wasn't entirely happy with Georgia's 2008 invasion. After all this was your typical war of conquest. That is to say Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili felt that his nation wasn't big enough so decide to invade the nation next door in order to steal a bit of it. The only twist is that in his battle plan Saakashvili calculated that such was western animosity towards Russia that all he needed to do was provoke Russia into retaliating and NATO would swoop in to do the rest. Needless to say he got this calculation badly wrong. 

One story I have been able to look at in more detail is yesterday's (13/2/14) sudden retirement of Russian figure skater Evgeny Plushenko moments before he was due to compete. Although hugely dramatic I don't think there was anything fake or political about this. At the age of 31 Plushenko has reached the point where the human body has started to decline. Having competed in three Olympics and numerous world championships Plushenko has put his body through more then most. So yesterday I think that sadly he did just pull a muscle in his back which left him unable to compete forcing him to call an end to what has been a glittering career. Somehow I think that even his opponents were a little bit sad about that.

One event which I've been provided with more information then I could ever want or need is today's women's skeleton bobsleigh final which apparently I was competing in. Back in Vancouver Britain's Amy Williams won gold in this event making only the 9th Brit to win gold at the Winter Olympics in what seemed like a commentary on the lesbian wife the British state seized from me back in 2006 - apparently Amy was going downhill faster then any woman on earth. However a gold medal is a gold medal so in the intervening years Team GB (winter division) having been focusing all their efforts on the women's skeleton bobsleigh event. After all grownups compete in the Luge.

With all of the UK's efforts focused on winning gold in the women's skeleton bobsleigh this was also the event where the UK's political efforts were dedicated. This mainly seemed centred on provoking gay Olympians into embarrassing unilateral protests against Russia's anti-gay propaganda laws in order to put pressure on Russia over it's support for the Syrian government. The main thrust of this involved getting to get the now retired Amy Williams to join the BBC Sport commentary team. From that much was made of the fact that Amy Williams rents a flat to top British prospect Lizzy Yarnold. The subtext being that Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold are gay for each other and Yarnold pays her rent with sex. Also William's enthusiastic and suggestive style of commentary kind of gave the impression that rather then competing in an Olympic event all the women were in fact performing oral sex on her. The idea being that this would create a lot of speculation about which athletes were gay and which were not. In fact I would go so far to say that the only point of UK Channel 4's recent disaster "The Jump" was to give Williams the opportunity to practise for this role.

In the end a combination of Team GB's efforts being focused on nothing else and other nations feeling they'd better give the UK something lest it threw a stop meant that Lizzy Yarnold did in fact win gold. However this does provide me with an opportunity to point out that in my experience homosexuals seem far more interested in the "Whose Gay?!?" game then heterosexuals. In fact the way that gay men in particular seem utterly obsessed with this kind of gives the impression they're mentally damaged perverts who will try and have sex with everyone the meet much like Jimmy Savile and other well known paedophiles. So in summary;

"Bristol's sh*t, Bath's worse. Good luck with the medal ceremony."

Today's massive contribution to the gay rights theme though came from researchers at Chicago University, US who claim to have identified chromosomal variations that indicate the existence of gene that causes homosexuality. I'm actually surprised that this announcement hasn't received wider media attention because in scientific terms it is about as earth shattering as the announcement by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider that they had disproved Einstein's special theory of relativity. Perhaps the subdued nature of the reporting comes from the fact that this has about the same level of credibility.

When DNA was first discovered in the 1950's the prevailing psychological wisdom was that homosexuality was a mental disorder similar to paedophilia. Knowing that this wasn't true gay rights campaigners at the time simply grabbed the nearest available headline and used it to justify their argument. The problem is that over the next 60 odd years a lot of people have done a lot of research in this area and have not only failed to find a gay gene but also failed to find any evidence that one might exist. This study changes that but although I haven't read it I suspect that it's authors will soon quietly be publishing a retraction before collecting a big US government cheque so they can go off an do some proper research. For example from my reading of the media coverage they don't appear to have used a control group in their study but I'm really hoping their actual deliberate mistake isn't something so elementary and obvious. 

Of course the inability to prove that homosexuality is genetic does not mean that it is a mental disorder or indeed a choice. I am building myself to the big discussion of the subject but in the meantime you might like to read up on a pesticide known as DDT or a herbicide known as Agent Orange. Funnily enough the US is an expert on both of those subjects.

Sadly the fact that it is extremely unlikely that there is a genetic cause for homosexuality will sound to most people as "Homosexuality is a choice" which is music to the ears of homophobes in Russia and beyond. Also revealing that gay-rights activists have knowingly been lying about a genetic basis for homosexuality for generations makes them look like a bunch of manipulative and exploitative liars who will say and do anything to justify their perversion. Those are exactly the sort of people I would want to have laws keeping them away from my children. 

So by setting this discussion in motion the US appears to be trying to cosy up to Russian homophobes, possibly for post-Olympic anti-Putin protests, while at the same time making it look like they're taking a brave stand for gay rights.

21:15 on 14/2/14 (UK date).