Is she really a HE? Doubts raised over sex of gold medal favourite before World Championship race

Daily Mail ^ | 3:46 PM on 19th August 2009 | Stewart Maclean

[CedarDave]

I wonder if he/she has visited here:

Trinidad Colorado - Sex Change Capital of the World (CBS News report)

[dalereed]

“How do you make a hormone?”

Pay her with counterfit bills!

[ScreamingFist]

Here’s an interview after the race......doesn’t sound or look like a woman to me. On the other hand, I would assume tests are easy to make and I would be amazed if SA thought they could pull this off without anyone knowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bqET22vEU&NR=1

[Colonel_Flagg]

There’s a frightening thought!

[spetznaz]

Michelle ...no way! That’s like comparing a Ferrari (Serena) to a turd-laden old shoe floating in a cess-pit in some forsaken favela in Rio.

[shalom aleichem]

This poor girl had to take a sex type test:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1207653/Womens-800m-gold-medal-favourite-Caster-Semenya-takes-gender-test-hours-World-Championship-race.html

I demand a chromosome test of the Michelle-My-Bell to see if s/he is first “lady” or ???

[Clinging Bitterly]

Remember Maria Motola?

From Mozambique, she attended high school in Springfield OR and trained with some of the elite coaches here in Eugene. I always wondered about her, but far as I know it was never formally questioned.

Mary (Decker) Slaney:

Another local heroine, perhaps best known for her fall in the final stretch on the 1500 in the 1984 Olympics. Some years after that while still doing competitive running, she was given the gender test after an event and reportedly failed. She made some noise about that (she makes noise about anything that doesn't go her way though) and I believe she had a successful retest, but still there was a period she was on suspension for suspected doping.

I don't know how it would all be explained scientifically, but these top of the class runners undergo intense training workouts and I can't believe it doesn't have physical and chemical effects on girls & women, being so extreme and unnatural.