Posted on 08/19/2009 10:46:48 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
Country to perform complex gender test on 800-meter runner Semenya
BERLIN - South Africa’s track and field federation had been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman.
Eighteen-year-old Caster Semenya is a favorite in Wednesday’s 800 final at the world championships.
The world track and field federation requested the gender test about three weeks ago, after Semenya burst onto the scene by improving her personal bests in the 800 and 1,500 by huge margins.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the “extremely complex, difficult” test has been started but that the results were not expected for weeks.
The verification requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender.
“So we’re talking about reports that are very long, very time consuming,” Davies said.
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“extremely complex, difficult” test
Not really.
I’m not sure.
And I don’t want to know.
I’m pretty sure a standard urine test would answer the question.
I’d say that’s a woman.
I knw I'd seen her somewhere before ..
Shades of the 1960 Olymics.
I always wondered why there are no women on men’s baseball, football or basketball teams.
It violates modern liberal dogma that men and women are really the same. No difference. And you can go easily from one to the other.
Now we see that there is a difference.
I love it when liberalism is shown to be full of contradictions.
Another thought: with the assumption that women and men are equal, why not make the events gender free?
The networks will see that never happens. The Olympics would have to be cut down to 1 week and they would lose all that revenue......
Is that the First Lady?
I second that!
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