Caster Semenya New Ruling

[nrico2006]

What an absolute joke:

http://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/controversial-olympic-star-caster-semenya-handed-a-big-decision/news-story/0e112ff8ca5d62e0d2167ac07e8c28e2

[GetOverTheBar]

Look at the contrast in her and the others in the pic, that's not well 

[LooseCannon]

Look at the contrast in her and the others in the pic, that's not well 

I'd say that the Ugandan one, and one of the Kenyans have a similar problem.

[Syferus]

Changing the rules because of one athlete is total nonsense. Makes middle distance runnnig look like a closed shop of elitist jackasses.

[Orchard park]

Changing the rules because of one athlete is total nonsense. Makes middle distance runnnig look like a closed shop of elitist jackasses.

or does it not say that one cant be full of testosterone and run as a female athlete

[Syferus]

Changing the rules because of one athlete is total nonsense. Makes middle distance runnnig look like a closed shop of elitist jackasses.

or does it not say that one cant be full of testosterone and run as a female athlete

If you're a woman you're a woman. This isn't someone cheating or trying to do anything beyond competing.

The rule is only changing because the rest of the field aren't good enough at their profession to beat Semenya. I'd love to know how many of her competitors are drugged to the hilt.

[Orchard park]

i am no expert on testosterone levels in a female but what is causing it in her if she isnt intersexual

are the allegations that 3 of the 800m finalists in the last olympics were"intersex"

are intersex athletes at a significant advantage to other female athletes........

sure if the testosterone isnt doing anything for her shouldnt she be able to run as fast if she can reduce the levels of it.............

[nrico2006]

Look at the contrast in her and the others in the pic, that's not well 

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1280&bih=891&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=j5HgWoLICI38gAbGuafYBw&q=smallest+and+tallest+basketball+players&oq=smallest+and+tallest+bas&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0.121976.124017.0.124669.15.7.0.8.8.0.92.538.7.7.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.15.642...0i24k1.0.ARkUHz3-QjI#imgrc=A9QRuah-BLW_pM:

[nrico2006]

Surely any natural physical attributes she has should not be restricted.  Is there going to be a limit of the height of basketball players next?

[gallsman]

Not surprised by Syferus' approach here and the inability to understand the difference between sex and gender.

Ross Tucker, a big fan of Semenya, has the right idea here. Sport is segregated on the basis of sex for to the massive physical advantages testosterone bestows on males. An example he gave was of the thousands of nowhere-near-elite make runners you've never heard of worldwide who run faster than Radcliffe's record for the women's marathon. Semenya and anyone like her have an unfair physical advantage. That's the end of it.

That said, because of the hateful things said about her for years by her fellow colleagues and athletes, I hope this isn't the end of it and she continues to batter them.

[gallsman]

Surely any natural physical attributes she has should not be restricted.  Is there going to be a limit of the height of basketball players next?

Ah, that old nonsense. Male basketballers playing against other male basketballers is not the same as an intersex athlete running against women.

[Syferus]

Not surprised by Syferus' approach here and the inability to understand the difference between sex and gender.

Ross Tucker, a big fan of Semenya, has the right idea here. Sport is segregated on the basis of sex for to the massive physical advantages testosterone bestows on males. An example he gave was of the thousands of nowhere-near-elite make runners you've never heard of worldwide who run faster than Radcliffe's record for the women's marathon. Semenya and anyone like her have an unfair physical advantage. That's the end of it.

That said, because of the hateful things said about her for years by her fellow colleagues and athletes, I hope this isn't the end of it and she continues to batter them.

The rules were based on the competitor being female, otherwise they would not need to change the rules to exclude her in the first place.

Whatever nonsense you try to dress up your dismissal of my post with the fact remains they're moving the goalposts because one athlete has been winning too much. If she was just in the middle of the pack there would never have been any movement to change the rules. Legislating against a single athlete in this way is literally discrimination.

[Orchard park]

Syf,

where is the nonsense I posted ??

I've asked serious relevant questions which i thought you were able to answer as you were authoratitive on her entitlement to continue participating as a female

If you dont know and are just bluffing again, and trying to hold a controversial position ala the Belfast rape trial then fair enough but just becuase you believe something and shout it repeatedly does not confer infallibility on you or your opinion

[Syferus]

Syf,

where is the nonsense I posted ??

I've asked serious relevant questions which i thought you were able to answer as you were authoratitive on her entitlement to continue participating as a female

If you dont know and are just bluffing again, and trying to hold a controversial position ala the Belfast rape trial then fair enough but just becuase you believe something and shout it repeatedly does not confer infallibility on you or your opinion

Wha?

[Orchard park]

You have an amazing ability to ignore being called out when acting the pompous overbearing gobshite.