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.
Trinidad Colorado - Sex Change Capital of the World (CBS News report)
“How do you make a hormone?”
Pay her with counterfit bills!
Here’s an interview after the race......doesn’t sound or look like a woman to me. On the other hand, I would assume tests are easy to make and I would be amazed if SA thought they could pull this off without anyone knowing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bqET22vEU&NR=1
There’s a frightening thought!
Michelle ...no way! That’s like comparing a Ferrari (Serena) to a turd-laden old shoe floating in a cess-pit in some forsaken favela in Rio.
I demand a chromosome test of the Michelle-My-Bell to see if s/he is first “lady” or ???
From Mozambique, she attended high school in Springfield OR and trained with some of the elite coaches here in Eugene. I always wondered about her, but far as I know it was never formally questioned.
Mary (Decker) Slaney:
Another local heroine, perhaps best known for her fall in the final stretch on the 1500 in the 1984 Olympics. Some years after that while still doing competitive running, she was given the gender test after an event and reportedly failed. She made some noise about that (she makes noise about anything that doesn't go her way though) and I believe she had a successful retest, but still there was a period she was on suspension for suspected doping.
I don't know how it would all be explained scientifically, but these top of the class runners undergo intense training workouts and I can't believe it doesn't have physical and chemical effects on girls & women, being so extreme and unnatural.
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