South African teenager Caster Semenya won the women's 800 meters gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, just hours after the sport's governing body asked for the 18-year-old's gender to be verified.
hoooooooow embarrassing :s where do they come up with this?? Athletes typically have a more masculine build--but requesting her to prove her gender?! Apparently this has happened before:
There have been precedents in such cases, the most famous being that of Polish athletics great Stella Walsh, who won Olympic gold in the 100 yards at the 1932 Olympics and silver in the same event in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. However, after she was shot dead during an armed robbery in 1980, the subsequent autopsy revealed she possessed male genitalia, although she also had female characteristics as well.
Hmmmmm I mean she does look a bit manly...buuuut cmooon seriously? I guess we will all know soon when they announce to the world if its a he or she!
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