elmore345 wrote:
Thing is has she physically been gender tested? I assume so and therefore she is female. Why would the authorities lie? Or is the arguement that she used to be a man? Is she transgengender? We will probably never find out the truth.
Gender just means he THINKS he's a female, for competition purposes only of course. One's "gender" has no meaning and no merit.
The only important issue is whether he's a women or not, and he isn't.
the only intersex athletes i can think of at a high leval,are dutee chand of india,kabange mupopo of zambia,margaret wambui of kenya,dorcas ajok of uganda,and of course niyonsaba,and semenya.maria mutola,and pamela jelimo are rumoured to have been intersex,or at least have hyperandrogynism,same with ethiopian 800 metre star,fantu magiso.there was indian 800 metre runner santhi soundarajan and there was also botswana paralympic gold medallist tshotlego morama,a 400 metre runner.
Rebel Yell wrote:
All the way to the bank
http://www.flotrack.org/video/984912-caster-semenya-after-posting-15533-world-lead-at-monaco-diamond-league
I clicked the link for the video and then turned away to do something else. When it started and I heard the voice, I was like, "damn...that's worse than I thought..."
Then I looked back and it was a Trey Hardee ad.
heh...
Metric Miler wrote:
The joke is how weak the event is.
Comparing the world leading times from men to women from last year:
100m: 10.74 - 9.74 = 10.3%
200m: 21.63 - 19.55 = 10.6%
400m: 49.26 - 43.48 = 13.3% *
800m: 1:56.99 - 1:42.50 = 14.1%
1500m: 3:50.07 - 3:26.69 = 11.3%
3000m: 8:22.22 - 7:34.66 = 10.5%
5000m: 14:14 - 12:53.98 = 10.5%
*Consider that Allyson Felix actually ran a confirmed 47.72 400m relay leg so could likely run ~48.5 in the open 400m, bringing the difference down to 11.5%.
Hopefully you can all see the problem with the women's 800m. Semenya still has an advantage, but the current 800m 'elites' on the women's side are extremely weak. This year it seems the women's 800m is even worse as Eunice Sum is in bad shape and the next fastest female last year was Melissa Bishop in 1:57.52.
I haven't seen any other girls this year that look like they could break 1:57.
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7349111&page=1#ixzz4Ao7JLKvK
We need more doped up Russian women to compete.....
liberalarts ---> stem wrote:
Actually, these are real men.