[Newsbot]

Title: Is the favorite in the women's 800m actually a man?
Category: Sports
Posted By: QBall
Date: 2009-08-20 06:34:26

[leewgrant]

She looks like a man and she/he was about 100m ahead of the next competitor at the finish. I was amused at the apparatchik who said it would take months to determine his/her gender.

[Praxius]

Her family would disagree it would seem:



Family defends 800m champion Caster Semenya
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 95,00.html

$1:

THE family of South Africa's new 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya have shrugged off questions about the runner's gender.

All major newspapers' front pages pictured a triumphant Semenya who powered to a 1minute 55.45seconds win - the world's best this year - shortly after the athletics governing body announced that the runner's gender was to be verified.

"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," father Jacob Semenya told the popular tabloid Sowetan, which dubbed the champion "Our Golden Girl".

"For the first time South Africans have someone to be proud of and detractors are already shouting wolf. It is unfair. I wish they would leave my daughter alone."

Semenya's 80-year-old grandmother Maphuthi Sekgala told The Times that the first year sports science student had long been teased about her boyish looks and for being the only girl in her local soccer team.

"(The controversy) doesn't bother me that much because I know she's a woman - I raised her myself," she said in her rural village in northern Limpopo province.

"She called me after (the heats) and told me that they think she's a man. 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.".....

[stepped-on]

Wow she is quite manly.

[leewgrant]

stepped-on stepped-on:

Wow she is quite manly.

She could certainly make it as an NFL running back.

[Brenda]

Especially when you see the rest of her... No hourglass shape at all...

[Praxius]

Brenda Brenda:

Especially when you see the rest of her... No hourglass shape at all...

You want to know who's questionable when it comes to gender?

Lady GaGa. My gf showed me a video of a live performance of her and as she got off a motor bike prop, there was certainly something there that looked like a man package.

Either that or she's got one big bulgy vagina. (I always felt she looked a little off for some reason)

[HollisterHawtie]

lol she sure looks like a man...shes ripped!

[ridenrain]

Gawd.. no advertizing contract for her.

[Mustang1]

It wasn't solely the physical characteristics that piqued the IAAF's interest it was her rapid rise in the sport and suspicious increases in lap times. We'll see what the gender tests reveal.

[Praxius]

I'm leaning on some sort of growth hormone... I mean, there's been a lot of records being blown wide open as of late from all corners.... kinda makes ya wonder.

[Brenda]

Oh, Prax, screw you for your sig

[Praxius]

Brenda Brenda:

Oh, Prax, screw you for your sig

Make you jump or just hard to squish??

[Brenda]

Made me touch my screen to get it off

[Praxius]

He he, my evil plan worked