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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   In article <230320221118584755%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com wrote:   
   >> >On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:40:41 -0500, BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   >> >>The fact that xir is consistently smashing all-time records by full   
   >> >>*minutes* in a sport where winners and losers are commonly separated   
   >> >>by only fractions of a second is pretty much prima facie evidence that   
   >> >>there's an unfair advantage here.   
   >> >   
   >> >Sadly this seems to go both ways. I was looking up some info on this   
   >> >issue and ran across the case of two African (can't remember the   
   >> >country they are from) women who were setting records in track events.   
   >> >Turns out that they are among the few women who have naturally high   
   >> >levels of testosterone. The problem is that the world wide   
   >> >organization that runs the events has set limits for how much   
   >> >testosterone women can have and so their records for two events were   
   >> >taken away, but for one event (the 200 yards, I think) they were able   
   >> >to keep their records because the organization hadn't set limits on   
   >> >testosterone for that event. They were told that they could continue   
   >> >to compete and win in the other events IF they took drugs to   
   >> >artificially lower their T levels.   
   >>   
   >> Wasn't there a manly-looking woman who turned out to be a man?   
   >> I remember it was abig deal at the time b/c they called her a cheater.   
   >   
   >The German Olympics team in 1936 had a number of "women" who did very   
   >well, especially in track and field.   
      
   Better living thru chemicals.   
      
   No, this was a woman from Africa around the turn of the 21st century.   
      
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