Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

Overview

If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers, and Annet Negesa, an 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical poetic utopia far from the rigid gender rules found in competitive sports.

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Annet Negesa

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Amanda Reiter

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Caitlin Fisher

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Daniel Marin Medina

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Chun Mei Tan

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Eva Maria Jost

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Jakob Levi Stahlberg

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Oumou Aidara

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Greta Graf

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