@Njung'e

Yeah,now i confirm what someone said!!! You are still smoking it,alot of it!!! looooolest!

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

...eureka...eureka...eureka!!! She is neither...!!!

Gender-row runner wins 800m world title





Semenya streets the field to take gold in the women's 800m final.

Dan Silkstone,Berlin







August 20,2009 - 8:12AM



Faced with plenty of questions and no satisfactory answers,the IAAF chose to delay a decision on the eligibilty of controversial 800m runner Caster Semenya last night,allowing the South African to win the women's 800m in a performance so dominant it verged on mockery.

Semenya was cleared to run but not cleared of the allegations and questions that have dogged her all week,as South African officials were ordered to organise more complex gender testing to determine whether her world title will stand or fall.

In a way it was the worst possible outcome,but one that was hard to avoid. With plenty of questions and few answers hanging over her head,the South African powered home to annihilate a world class field,winning by more than 20 metres.

Afterwards,the reception form the passionate athletics crowd in Berlin's Olympic Stadium was muted to say the least. While second-placed Kenyan Janeth Jepkosgei and third placed Jennifer Meadows of Great Britain stayed out on the track and soaked up applause during a victory lap,the South African quickly disappeared into the bowels of the stadium.

IAAF secretary general Pierre Weiss took Semenya's place at the press conference.

'I am replacing the winner here tonight. A double investigation is being conducted - one in South Africa,one in Berlin,' he said.

Weiss said that it would be improper to put such an inexperienced athlete up for interview given the circumstances.

'We know you want to talk to her,but she is young,she is inexperienced and she is not able to reply properly to all your questions,'' he said.

'I will answer for her. The decision not to put her up her was taken by the IAAF and the South African federation.''

'If at the end of the investigation we find out she is not a woman,we will withdraw the medal and redistribute it. But there is nothing which would have stopped her from running today.'

http://www.theage.com.au...08/20/1250362146133.html

Further to my last comment below,I have found some information on these genetic tests and instances where they have been used in the past. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/..._verification_in_sports

At the very least they remain controversial - quoting from the abovementioned source:

'A commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated,
'gender verification tests are difficult,expensive,and potentially inaccurate. Furthermore,these tests fail to exclude all potential impostors (eg,some 46,XX males),are discriminatory against women with disorders of sexual development,and may have shattering consequences for athletes who 'fail' a test.' [3]


The article also states:


'Gender verification has long been criticized by geneticists,endocrinologists,and others in the medical community. One major problem was unfairly excluding women who had a birth defect involving gonads and external genitalia (i.e.,male pseudohermaphroditism). ...
A second problem is that only women,not men,were stigmatized by gender verification testing. Systematic follow-up was rarely available for female athletes 'failing' the test,which often was performed under very public circumstances. Follow-up was crucial because the problem was not male impostors,but rather confusion caused by misunderstanding of male pseudohermaphroditism.' [3]

...so does all these mean that the fact that one has one or the other organ is not prove enough that he is a male of female...? asi!! Then we all need to be tested...