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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

Posted on 08/19/2009 9:08:51 AM PDT by null and void

Edited on 08/19/2009 10:09:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The gold medal favourite in tonight's women's 800m World Athletics Championships race is today facing claims that she is really a man.

South African Caster Semenya, 18, is set to race in tonight's final in Berlin after sailing through a semi-final on Monday in her first major international sporting competition.

But the teenage sensation has sparked controversy over her strikingly muscular physique, and today insiders claimed she would be gender tested following the final in Berlin.

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Doubt: South Africa's Caster Semenya on Monday. She is today facing claims that she is actually a man

South African athletics chiefs furiously denied the claims and stated Semenya was definitely female.


Semenya, right, is literally flying, both feet off the ground, as she crosses the finish line ahead of Jennifer Meadows (L) of Britain during the semi final on Monday night

Meanwhile the teenager's coach told South African media she was aware of the controversy surrounding her.

Michael Seme told South Africa's News24 website: 'We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man. It's a natural reaction and it's only human to be curious.

'People probably have the right to ask such questions if they are in doubt.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: athletics; genderbender; semenya; sports; transsexual
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Let's avoid all the clever midget jokes...
1 posted on 08/19/2009 9:08:51 AM PDT by null and void
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See- Man- Ya!


2 posted on 08/19/2009 9:11:36 AM PDT by texson66 (DemonRats: Remember: They have what it takes to TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE!)
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Turn your head and cough...ma’am.

}:-)4


3 posted on 08/19/2009 9:13:19 AM PDT by Moose4 (I took my car in for an alignment. Now my front end is chaotic evil.)
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Just give it the Crocodile Dundee test.


4 posted on 08/19/2009 9:13:30 AM PDT by DonaldC
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"Lady Looks Like A Dude" -- Aerosmith, 1987
6 posted on 08/19/2009 9:15:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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Looks like a man to me.


7 posted on 08/19/2009 9:15:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Did one of the X-chromosomes lose the little leg?


8 posted on 08/19/2009 9:15:35 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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9 posted on 08/19/2009 9:15:55 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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I think I spot a ‘package’.


10 posted on 08/19/2009 9:16:01 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('Always love your country — but never trust your government!' ~ Robert Novak (RIP))
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it is a she/he. any volunteers to inspect the package?


11 posted on 08/19/2009 9:16:18 AM PDT by isom35
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No duct tape image...


12 posted on 08/19/2009 9:18:50 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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There may not be any junk in the trunk, but I’ll bet there’s a weiner in the steamer.


13 posted on 08/19/2009 9:19:24 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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THAT’S RACIST!


14 posted on 08/19/2009 9:19:50 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (In more ways than one.)
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Two words: Adam’s apple


15 posted on 08/19/2009 9:20:43 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman (Everyone says they have a plan... until they get punched in the face. -Mike Tyson)
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To: isom35

Package or not, it’s guilty!


16 posted on 08/19/2009 9:21:16 AM PDT by ScoochDude
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To: texson66

Semen ya?


17 posted on 08/19/2009 9:21:54 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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Semen-ya? Are you kidding me? I think the “lady”’s got a unit.


19 posted on 08/19/2009 9:22:51 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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Angry face
20 posted on 08/19/2009 9:23:16 AM PDT by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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