Jim Rome ping
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"Have a take, don't suck or you'll get run......."
Posted on 12/18/2006 1:20:19 PM PST by MikefromOhio
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal.
Shanti Sounderajan, 25, took the gender test in Doha, Qatar, after placing second.
The Indian Olympic Association said Monday it has been told by the Olympic Council of Asia that the 25-year-old runner was disqualified.
"IOA has asked the Athletic Federation of India to return the medal as desired by the Olympic Council of Asia,'' the Indian Olympic group said.
The IOA also asked its medical commission to inquire into Sounderajan's case and report within 10 days.
There are no compulsory gender tests during events sanctioned by track and field's international ruling body, but athletes may be asked to take a gender test. The medical evaluation panel usually includes a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist and internal medicine specialist.
An Indian athletics official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media said Sounderajan almost certainly never had sex-change surgery.
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Yes I added "genderneutral" to the keywords LOL
OMGG that so funny Mike remind me of old Austin Power quote it not a woman it's a man BABY ROFL
Them pesky "XX" & "XY" Chromosomes get 'em every time.
I added "the crying game"
The question that tripped him/her up:
26: If your mother were to try and set you up in an arranged marriage, would you be the prospective Bride or Groom?
I can just picture her/him sitting at a table while they flash up pictures of Janet Reno, etc., asking "male or female?" Isn't that the gender test they made him/her take?
Your keyword list keeps growing!
LOL
Hey Joe: Take a run on the Wild Side.
The athlete could suffer from androgen insensitivity syndrome, the same malady that purportedly plagues Jamie Lee Curtis. Born with XY chromosomes but without the ability to process male hormones. My understanding is that the Olympics accepts such people as female.
*Profiling*?
...shame on you. :o)
OMG Monk it so true come on you had admit that funny ROFL
yes! hehehe
Sounds like sex discrimination to me. NOW will be all over them....
So is she unable to have children. I noticed that she and her husband adopted children.
I feel a little weird now I always thought she was very sexy when I was a kid.
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