caster semenya photos

The Caster Semenya photos are sought as questions about her gender continue. See pictures here and Caster Semenya video of the race, the interview and more about the South African runner who won the Women’s 800M at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Berlin and now faces controversy which may involve ambiguous genitalia In the aftermath of the 18-year-old runner’s victory, the IAAF has asked the South African athletics federation to conduct a gender verification exam on Caster Semenya (photos above).She won the race on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 with a time of 1:55.45 which is thus far the best time in the world in 2009. Winning second and third place respectively were Kenyan runner Janeth Jepkosgei (1:57.90) and Jennifer Meadows of Great Britain (1:57.93).

Results of the test, CNN reports, will take some time; perhaps weeks. The test involves a physical medical evaluation, along with reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist, and an expert on gender intended to resolve issues of ambiguous genitalia. In the interim, no doubt, speculation will mount as Caster Semenya photos are studied and commented upon.Her manager, Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane, spoke with CNN in a telephone interview, stating that the South African runner has not been concerned with questions about her gender and is focused on improving her performance and bettering her times, and went on to say:Gender testing, medieval as it sounds, began at the Olympic level in the 1960s. The Eastern bloc kept producing outstanding female athletes who did not pass muster visually. They did pass the gender tests.

They also passed the drug tests, even though East Germany’s secret police files revealed extensive hormonal manipulation, performed without the athletes’ consent or knowledge.In the most renowned case, shot-putter Heidi Krieger eventually testified against leaders of the national sports program, saying that the countless pills she had taken transformed her sexually, led to wild mood swings and a suicide attempt. By 1997, seven years after she retired, Krieger underwent sexual-reassignment surgery and became Andreas Krieger.

Tammy Thomas, the cyclist convicted of perjury in front of the BALCO grand jury, had a 5 o’clock shadow when she competed and a jaw line much squarer than it was years later, when she went to trial.As cynical and ugly as the gender testing seems, they simply might be an attempt to forestall behavior that is even more cynical and grotesque. In repressive regimes and households – let’s not underestimate the extremism of certain parents – all manner of charades are possible in creating a champion. A boy could be surgically altered. Girls by the dozen could be lab rats for the latest designer steroid, dosed until they no longer recognize themselves.