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Track athlete's gender questioned...
« on: August 20, 2009, 01:19:39 pm »
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/gallery?search=Caster+Semenya#photoViewer=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cgetty%3A20050301%3Aoly%2Cphoto%2Ca733dd98cfd5ef340edf19f11ec17e02-getty-athletics-world-800m-podium%3A1

Winner of the 800 in Berlin has to go through a plethora of tests to determine if she is female, never heard of that happening before.  On a side note, how do you feel about your countrywoman, Limey?
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2009, 01:37:48 pm »
Quote from: sporadic on August 20, 2009, 01:19:39 pm
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/gallery?search=Caster+Semenya#photoViewer=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cgetty%3A20050301%3Aoly%2Cphoto%2Ca733dd98cfd5ef340edf19f11ec17e02-getty-athletics-world-800m-podium%3A1

Winner of the 800 in Berlin has to go through a plethora of tests to determine if she is female, never heard of that happening before.  On a side note, how do you feel about your countrywoman, Limey?

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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 01:39:54 pm »
Quote from: sporadic on August 20, 2009, 01:19:39 pm
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/gallery?search=Caster+Semenya#photoViewer=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cgetty%3A20050301%3Aoly%2Cphoto%2Ca733dd98cfd5ef340edf19f11ec17e02-getty-athletics-world-800m-podium%3A1

It's a routine thing in the world of track and field.  It's been an Olympic requirement for some time.  A runner at the Asian Games a few years ago was stripped of her medal because she "failed" a gender test.
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2009, 01:42:33 pm »
I read that they stopped testing for it at the olympics after a bunch of false positives at the 96 games
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2009, 01:53:49 pm »
What gets me is the articles on that story say that it will take a few weeks to process test results. Seems like an xray or MRI or physical examination should provide pretty quick results.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2009, 01:58:29 pm »
Quote from: Holly on August 20, 2009, 01:53:49 pm
What gets me is the articles on that story say that it will take a few weeks to process test results. Seems like an xray or MRI or physical examination should provide pretty quick results.

no kidding...guess it is more than a hot dog or hamburger bun issue
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2009, 02:05:48 pm »
Quote from: BizidyDizidy on August 20, 2009, 01:42:33 pm
I read that they stopped testing for it at the olympics after a bunch of false positives at the 96 games

I wasn't aware of that.  At any rate, such and idea isn't uprecedented.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 02:07:06 pm »
Quote from: sporadic on August 20, 2009, 01:58:29 pm
no kidding...guess it is more than a hot dog or hamburger bun issue

Right.  It's not about genitalia, it's about chomosomes and hormones.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 02:24:21 pm »
Quote from: Holly on August 20, 2009, 01:53:49 pm
What gets me is the articles on that story say that it will take a few weeks to process test results. Seems like an xray or MRI or physical examination should provide pretty quick results.

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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 03:26:42 pm »
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 04:04:35 pm »
this is going someplace so wrong..
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2009, 05:39:00 pm »
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this is going someplace so wrong..

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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2009, 07:34:17 pm »
Usain Bolt won the mens' 200 meters, of course, but the silver was won by Panamanian Alonso Edward who is still very young and should only get better with more and better coaching.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2009, 08:39:14 pm »
Quote from: chuck on August 20, 2009, 07:34:17 pm
Usain Bolt won the mens' 200 meters, of course, but the silver was won by Panamanian Alonso Edward who is still very young and should only get better with more and better coaching.

Bolt's only 23 himself.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2009, 08:59:16 pm »
Quote from: austro on August 20, 2009, 08:39:14 pm
Bolt's only 23 himself.

The guy is absolutely unbelievable.
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Re: Track athlete's gender questioned...
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2009, 09:27:03 am »
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