Usain Bolt (and the IAAF games)

[InOffMeLeftShin]

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I can definitely say I didn't expect that because I was a little bit tired

I said let's try because people are really looking out for this, I said it won't hurt to try. So I tried really hard and now I'm really tired

Maybe next time I should just run the 200m or the 100m alone. My form was going backwards. I wasn't running upright. It wasn't a good race but it was a fast one

A little bit tired? Form going backwards? Not running upright? Not a good race? mg:

The guy is simply ridiculous. He runs 19.19s, beats the next 7 best sprinters in the world by about 15 metres and then said he wasn't very good. :lol:

 

[Pringle]

i really dont get the whole heshe 800m runner thing. They have said the reason for suspicion is that the athlete took 7 seconds off their PB in just 9 months. right....... so what??? if they were male would it be more possible than if they were female then??? at the top of their form i agree its v hard to take 7 secs off a PB however i could improve my PB in the 800m by that in 7 months easily. Right now i am quite unfit, so if i trained regularly and lost a bit of weight i have no doubt i would cut it down!!

I agree she looks like a complete man, but what has the PB got to do with it?????

 

[Rocksuperstar]

No, that PB wasn't the only reason - other competitors had all expressed concern at her very deep voice and muscular definition and, now i've browsed through a load of pics of her, she appears to have an adams apple, which is pretty damning.

The family have released a few pics of her with school friends, and a shot of the birth certificate but, whilst i'd have no idea how genuine or reliable that birth certificate might be, all the school pics are of her with girls, yeah, but they're all wearing dresses, she's wearing black trousers and a yellow shirt and looks every inch a young fella.

I dunno, whatever happens, we're not going to know for weeks anyway.

 

[Pringle]

i understand that, but they do keep mentioning the much improved PB - which has no relevance whatsoever to the gender of the athlete!!!

 

[haxman]

This made me laugh this morning

“Caster Semenya, the woman 800m runner being gender tested, is, quite appropriately, an anagram of ‘Yes, a secret man’.”

 

[Rocksuperstar]

From Sky News

Gender tests carried out on South African world champion athlete Caster Semenya reportedly show the teenager is a hermaphrodite.


Quoting an unnamed source close to the case, the Sydney Daily Telegraph said the 18-year-old had both male and female sex organs.
The report said the runner had internal testes that produce large amounts of testosterone - and no womb or ovaries.
The International Association of Athletics' Federations (IAAF), which ordered the tests, has confirmed that it has received the results.
But it refused to discuss the findings.
The reports have been denied by Semenya's uncle Lesiba Rammabi who maintains the athlete is "normal, inside and out".
The IAAF is reportedly making urgent efforts to contact Semenya, who won the women's 800m at the World Athletic Champsionships in Berlin.
The teenager is running a 4km race at the South African cross country championships on Saturday, her first competitive appearance since her August gold medal.
Athletics South Africa has insisted that it has not yet heard from the IAAF.
"This is a medical issue and not a doping issue where she was deliberately cheating," IAAF spokesman Nick Davies is quoted as saying in Australian papers.
"These tests do not suggest any suspicion of deliberate misconduct but seek to assess the possibility of a potential medical condition which would give Semenya an unfair advantage over her competitors.
"There is no automatic disqualification of results in a case like this."
IAAF sources believe Semenya would probably keep her medal because the case was not related to a drug matter.
Her victory was completely overshadowed by speculation over her masculine appearance and suggestions over her gender.
Last week, when questioned about the controversy by the South African magazine YOU, Semenya said: "I see it all as a joke. It doesn't upset me.
"God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.
"I don't want to talk about the tests. I'm not even thinking about them."
The gender test caused fierce protests in South Africa and complaints that it infringed Semenya's human rights.
Futher reports suggest there had been several other gender cases investigated by the IAAF in recent times which had not received such publicity.

So... does that go down as "inconclusive" then? :shrug:

Internal or external, if she's got balls and no womb or ovaries, surely that errs on the side of fella? :think: