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- Title
- Gender testing and women's sport
- Author(s)
- Farquharson, Karen
- Abstract
- The second week of the Olympics is almost upon us, bringing on the athletics competition. Caster Semenya, a talented middle-distance runner, carried the South African flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. The road she travelled to get to this Olympics was a particularly challenging one as not only did she have to qualify, she also had to prove that she was a woman. I've learned two things about gender testing and sport that I found interesting. First, there is no definitive gender test. And second, only women's sport worries about gender testing.
- Publication type
- Commentary
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- The Conversation, 03 August 2012
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Gender testing; Olympics; Semenya, Caster (1991-); Sporting events; Sportspeople; Women
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Trust
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.edu.au/gender-testing-and-womens-sport-8639
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012. This publication is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-ND 3.0) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/). The published version is reproduced in accordance with this policy.
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