South Africa’s Caster Semenya Returns Home
Fox Sports Video Highlights: Women’s 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya receives a hero’s welcome upon returning to South Africa. Semenya is embroiled in a gender-determination controversy. See Video Below
The world champion arrived back at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo international Airport to a heroine’s welcome and the country’s athletics authorities wasted no time in defending her.
♦Caster Semenya Greatest “Sports Scandal”♦
Perhaps the greatest scandal of all is that a young athlete, raised in poverty in one of South Africa’s northern villages, who trained with such palpable devotion to reach the top, has been humiliated before the eyes of the world in her moment of triumph.
Yes, the IAAF has an obligation to investigate any alleged instances of gender ambiguity, not least because of a duty of fairness to other athletes. Yes, these tests are necessarily intrusive and wide-ranging since the concept of gender has many inter-connecting facets. Yes, nobody should be able to duck such tests regardless of circumstances.
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Semenya’s coach: you can do it man
Leonard Chuene, president of Athletics South Africa (ASA), who has stepped down from the International Association of Athletics Federations council while it investigates Semenya, denied that the controversial former East German coach Ekkart Arbeit, who now works as ASA’s head coach, could have doped her.
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Caster Semenya Gender Testing
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
The father of a women’s world champion athlete today angrily denied accusations that the teenager was secretly born a man, insisting: “She is my little girl.” Read more Here
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Rob Newbiggin Boxer Sex Change (PHOTOS)
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The Sun has reported that Rob Newbiggin, 44, who wears wigs, make-up and mini-skirts, faces Michael “The Predator” Gomez next month.
The father-of-three has forged a 20-year career as a boxer and has even sparred with Ricky Hatton, but has only now decided to make this life-changing decision. Read more Here
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Usain Bolt Breaks His Own Record
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Running alone — strikingly alone — in lane 5 in the final straightaway, he showed no interest in cruising to the finish. Instead, he sprinted through, and the result was a time of 19.19 seconds: 11-hundredths of a second faster than the world record he established a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. Read full story here
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