It takes balls to win two years in a row....oh wait, he has balls?....my bad.
This proves that you can still come in second and be the real champion.
I think you're wrong in this particular instance, but it's getting hard to tell. S(he) doesn't have balls, but wishes she did. In other words, s(he) is a woman transitioning to male, which means tons of muscle-toning testosterone, delivered externally.
There have been cases of relatively mature guys going the other way--but then they have the developmental advantage of a heavier bone structure. I think there was an instance of that in female MMA, where a real woman was fighting a guy transitioning to female, and she said she'd never been hit so hard in her life.
So, it can go either way.