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Post by sistahsledge on Aug 18, 2016 23:22:11 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/sports/caster-semenya-800-meters.html?_r=0She won her 800m semi-final in a romp and is expected to easily win the gold. Some of her competitors say she has an unfair advantage, hyperandrogenism. How would volleyball players feel about facing off against a female player with the build and explosiveness of an Ivan Zaytsev... or any Div 1 level male player?
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Post by Sbilo on Aug 18, 2016 23:40:50 GMT -5
#9 for Indonesia looks exactly like a Man.
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Post by midwestmadness on Aug 19, 2016 16:47:55 GMT -5
The article ends, "It would seem unfair to tell her, Sorry, you can’t run in the Olympics because of the way you were born."
But she was born with testes, albeit internal. And those testes are producing testosterone. The presence of ambiguous genitalia is not as rare as you might think. Seems like a slippery slope to say that since she identifies as a female, she can compete as one, and let's just ignore those testes.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 19, 2016 17:04:55 GMT -5
It wouldn't be telling her she can't run in the Olympics, it would be telling her that she can't run in the Olympics in the women's division.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 19, 2016 19:15:00 GMT -5
#9 for Indonesia looks exactly like a Man. Well, her face looks like Morena Baccarin but her upper body is built more than most men:  |
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Post by SuperSpike on Aug 19, 2016 19:19:57 GMT -5
It'll be interesting how stuff like this plays out in combat sports.
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Post by Northern lights on Aug 19, 2016 19:53:40 GMT -5
This I find offensive. World Record Holding athlete's almost always have genetic gifts. Usain Bolt is 6-5 and has the central nervous system of a 5-7 man. Destiny Hooker can touch 11 feet. Muhammad Ali saw punches in slow motion. These are one in a million variations.
Caster Semenya is not cheating, she is not enhancing her gifts with steroids. In fact she was even forced to take testosterone inhibitors, while the powers that be considered her situation.
She holds the 12th fastest time in women's 800m history, hardly a generational athlete in terms of results.
What would be the sentiment if she was beautiful, or at least what some fat turd thinks is beautiful. This smells bad to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 11:38:13 GMT -5
and Michael Phelps has incredibly low levels of lactate acid to go with his 6'9 wingspan.
The OIC have handled this situation soo poorly, this should have been private.
Get the gold girl.
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Post by lemonice on Aug 20, 2016 20:29:44 GMT -5
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