track chick wrote:
What I don't understand is how anyone who read anything about this condition, and understood the biology of it and the advantages it confers, could hold their head up and compete in races. I know I couldn't.
I agree. The problem with discussing this issue (away from Letsrun) is that in order even have an opinion against Semenya competing with women you almost always have to lay on thick the caveat that you have enormous sympathy for the situation Caster is in.
In reality, my sympathies only go so far. I think I lot of it is a cynical ploy to make as much money as possible without any thought about how it's affecting the sport as a whole. It's not completely Caster's fault as ASA have a huge amount to answer for but we'd be stupid to think that Caster is a poor little girl who is being exploited by nasty men. She knows exactly what's she's doing.