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IAAF isn't sure South African runner is female
nbcsports.com ^ | 08/19/2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcsports.msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: athletics; genderbender; iaaf; sport
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To: Sleeping Freeper

“extremely complex, difficult” test

Not really.


21 posted on 08/19/2009 11:09:56 AM PDT by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I’m not sure.
And I don’t want to know.


22 posted on 08/19/2009 11:20:19 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

I’m pretty sure a standard urine test would answer the question.


23 posted on 08/19/2009 11:21:24 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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To: eCSMaster

I’d say that’s a woman.


24 posted on 08/19/2009 11:22:36 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

25 posted on 08/19/2009 11:24:49 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Bacon,smokless powder,and boobs are proof that God loves us.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

I knw I'd seen her somewhere before ..

26 posted on 08/19/2009 11:31:26 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Shades of the 1960 Olymics.


27 posted on 08/19/2009 11:32:55 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

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.


28 posted on 08/19/2009 11:33:46 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: mountaineer1997

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......


29 posted on 08/19/2009 11:38:00 AM PDT by millerph
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Is that the First Lady?


30 posted on 08/19/2009 11:41:26 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: GOPsterinMA

I second that!


31 posted on 08/19/2009 11:59:26 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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