this is a very interesting story

i know it's happened before. athletes accused of competing as women but really being men. i know that scenario has happened on purpose. HOWEVER, in most cases, i do believe there are athletes who are women, compete as women and they have an unusual genetic makeup. they may have a few male characteristics . they may be built more like a man than a woman YET THEY ARE WOMEN.

this woman is 18 years old. she can run. everyone who is jealous SHOULD JUST GET THE HELL OVER IT.

Gold Awarded Amid Dispute Over Runner’s Sex
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY and GINA KOLATA

BERLIN — As an 18-year-old runner from a village in South Africa received her gold medal in Olympic Stadium on Thursday night, activity away from the track had put her at the center of an international dispute: doctors here and in her home country were examining test results to determine whether she has too many male characteristics to compete as a woman.

The case of Caster Semenya, who has burst to prominence this season, touched off a debate over whether she should be allowed to keep her medal and, more broadly, how sports officials are supposed to discern the fuzzy biological line between male and female.

Medical experts said assigning sex was hardly as easy as sizing someone up visually. Even rigorous examinations can result in ambiguous findings. Some conditions that give women male characteristics can be discovered only through intrusive physical examinations, and others require genetic analysis.........

pic: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei of Kenya, left, Caster Semenya of South Africa and Jennifer Meadows of Britain display their medals from the women's 800 meters at the world championships on Wednesday.