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SAfrican in gender flap gets gold for 800 win

BERLIN – The South African teenager caught up in the gender-test flap bowed her head to receive the gold medal for winning the 800-meter win at the world championships on Thursday, while officials and family came to her defense.

Caster Semenya won by a huge margin Wednesday in the face of revelations that the world track body asked her to undergo gender testing.

Asked while walking into the medal ceremony how she was feeling, Semenya smiled and said, "Good, man."

Dressed in a yellow and green track suit, Semenya waved to the crowd as she ascended the podium to receive her gold medal. She stood with her hands behind her back and mouthed the words to the South African national anthem.

Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender. Her father, grandmother and cousin dismissed speculation she is not a woman.

"She said to me she doesn't see what the big deal is all about," South Africa team manager Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said. "She believes it is God given talent and she will exercise it."

About three weeks ago, the IAAF asked the South African athletics federation to conduct the gender test after Semenya burst onto the scene by posting a world leading time of 1 minute, 56.72 seconds at the African junior championships in Bambous, Mauritius.

Her father, Jacob, told the Sowetan newspaper: "She is my little girl. ... I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times."

Semenya's paternal grandmother, Maputhi Sekgala, said the controversy "doesn't bother me that much because I know she's a woman."

"What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way," Sekgala told the South African daily The Times.

South African athletics federation president Leonard Chuene defended the teenager Thursday, and insisted Semenya is facing intense scrutiny because she is African.

"It would not be like that if it were some young girl from Europe," Chuene told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "If it was a white child, she would be sitting somewhere with a psychologist, but this is an African child."

Chuene also said there was no evidence to prove Semenya was doing anything wrong.

"If there was evidence, she would have been stopped," Chuene said. "Where I come from, you're innocent until proven guilty.

"They're judging her based on what?" Chuene added. "Who can give me conclusive evidence? I want someone to do that."

Semenya did not attend the medal winners' news conference after winning by a margin of more than 2 seconds, in 1:55.45. She was replaced at the dais by IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss.

Weiss said the testing was ordered because of "ambiguity, not because we believe she is cheating."

If the tests show that Semenya is not a woman, she would be stripped of her gold medal, Weiss said.

The gender test, which takes weeks to complete, requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender.

"We have to be very scrupulously fair and sensitive about" the issue, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Thursday. "It's all very well people saying she's a man, she looks like a man — that's not good enough. You have to be very careful and cautious about that."

SAfrican in gender flap gets gold for 800 win - Yahoo! News
 
I heard about this flap on tv this morning over my first cup of coffee... They said it would take two weeks to get the test results back from the lab. Seems to me if they wanted to save a bit of time and money, just ask her or him, whatever the case may be, to drop the undies so the officials could have a peek. Some folks just can't stand getting beat I suppose or maybe the judges didn't like who won. I think it's a pretty funny issue. What are they going to say to this poor girl when the results come back? Sorry. We were morons.
 
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That's assuming s/he turns out to be female.

I don't care what anyone says, as far as I'm concerned Babe Didrikson, widely considered the all-time greatest female athlete, was actually a dude. She might have had two X chromosomes, but there was definitely a Y in there too.

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And while we're on the topic, when is somebody gonna take a look under Amelie Mauresmo's skirt to check for berries?

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Reminds me of that Family Guy episode where Lois becomes a news reporter at Fox and they use Coulter in the break room as a fridge. She's sitting over on the counter and an employee spreads her legs, looks inside, and laments "There's never anything good in here."
 
SAfrican in gender flap gets gold for 800 win

BERLIN – The South African teenager caught up in the gender-test flap bowed her head to receive the gold medal for winning the 800-meter win at the world championships on Thursday, while officials and family came to her defense.

Caster Semenya won by a huge margin Wednesday in the face of revelations that the world track body asked her to undergo gender testing.

Asked while walking into the medal ceremony how she was feeling, Semenya smiled and said, "Good, man."

Dressed in a yellow and green track suit, Semenya waved to the crowd as she ascended the podium to receive her gold medal. She stood with her hands behind her back and mouthed the words to the South African national anthem.

Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender. Her father, grandmother and cousin dismissed speculation she is not a woman.

"She said to me she doesn't see what the big deal is all about," South Africa team manager Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said. "She believes it is God given talent and she will exercise it."

About three weeks ago, the IAAF asked the South African athletics federation to conduct the gender test after Semenya burst onto the scene by posting a world leading time of 1 minute, 56.72 seconds at the African junior championships in Bambous, Mauritius.

Her father, Jacob, told the Sowetan newspaper: "She is my little girl. ... I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times."

Semenya's paternal grandmother, Maputhi Sekgala, said the controversy "doesn't bother me that much because I know she's a woman."

"What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way," Sekgala told the South African daily The Times.

South African athletics federation president Leonard Chuene defended the teenager Thursday, and insisted Semenya is facing intense scrutiny because she is African.
"It would not be like that if it were some young girl from Europe," Chuene told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "If it was a white child, she would be sitting somewhere with a psychologist, but this is an African child."

Chuene also said there was no evidence to prove Semenya was doing anything wrong.

"If there was evidence, she would have been stopped," Chuene said. "Where I come from, you're innocent until proven guilty.

"They're judging her based on what?" Chuene added. "Who can give me conclusive evidence? I want someone to do that."

Semenya did not attend the medal winners' news conference after winning by a margin of more than 2 seconds, in 1:55.45. She was replaced at the dais by IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss.

Weiss said the testing was ordered because of "ambiguity, not because we believe she is cheating."

If the tests show that Semenya is not a woman, she would be stripped of her gold medal, Weiss said.

The gender test, which takes weeks to complete, requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender.

"We have to be very scrupulously fair and sensitive about" the issue, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Thursday. "It's all very well people saying she's a man, she looks like a man — that's not good enough. You have to be very careful and cautious about that."

SAfrican in gender flap gets gold for 800 win - Yahoo! News

They obviously don't remember the East German "ladies".
 
Caster Semenya, woman who rocked athletics world, 'is hermaphrodite' - Times Online

Sex tests carried out on Caster Semenya, the world 800 metres champion, show that she is a hermaphrodite, a source close to the case claimed tonight.

If the allegation is backed up by the results, the South African may well find herself stripped of her gold medal and banned from racing...

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so much for the stupid race card playing by SA official in the OP

South African athletics federation president Leonard Chuene defended the teenager Thursday, and insisted Semenya is facing intense scrutiny because she is African.
"It would not be like that if it were some young girl from Europe," Chuene told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "If it was a white child, she would be sitting somewhere with a psychologist, but this is an African child."

and this

I heard about this flap on tv this morning over my first cup of coffee... They said it would take two weeks to get the test results back from the lab. Seems to me if they wanted to save a bit of time and money, just ask her or him, whatever the case may be, to drop the undies so the officials could have a peek. Some folks just can't stand getting beat I suppose or maybe the judges didn't like who won. I think it's a pretty funny issue. What are they going to say to this poor girl when the results come back? Sorry. We were morons.
 
intrasexed...she had no way of knowing...and her hormones levels are within the normal range.....much to do about nothing..externally she is female....they did find testes but they are inside of her...she has no womb or ovaries.
 
intrasexed...she had no way of knowing...and her hormones levels are within the normal range.....much to do about nothing..externally she is female....they did find testes but they are inside of her...she has no womb or ovaries.

what i read is that the testosterone levels were not normal for a female.

just shows that this case is more complicated and the tests were justified.

and stupid drop the trousers quips are, well stupid.
 
remember the race card and colonialism card playing SA official Leonard Chuene from the OP?
He said this:

South African athletics federation president Leonard Chuene defended the teenager Thursday, and insisted Semenya is facing intense scrutiny because she is African.

"It would not be like that if it were some young girl from Europe," Chuene told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "If it was a white child, she would be sitting somewhere with a psychologist, but this is an African child."

Chuene also said there was no evidence to prove Semenya was doing anything wrong.

"If there was evidence, she would have been stopped," Chuene said. "Where I come from, you're innocent until proven guilty.

"They're judging her based on what?" Chuene added. "Who can give me conclusive evidence? I want someone to do that."

Now:

Athletics chief under fire for gender test lies
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government has called for the country's top athletics official to be fired for lying about gender tests done on Caster Semenya.

Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene admitted he lied when denying gender tests had been done in the country on the women's 800-meter world champion, but said he did so to protect the 18-year-old's privacy.

Deputy Sports Minister Gert Oosthuizen said in a statement on Sunday that Chuene's denials were detrimental to the runner.

Semenya won the 800 world title on Aug. 19 in Berlin in 1 minute, 55.45 seconds.

The International Association of Athletics Federations ordered gender tests, saying questions had been raised about Semenya's muscular physique and recent stunning improvement.

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