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  1. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1078838/aiba-threatens-to-sue-ioc-if-stripped-of-recognition-as-olympic-governing-body-for-boxing-at-tokyo-2020 "AIBA threatens to sue IOC if stripped of recognition as Olympic governing body for boxing at Tokyo 2020"
  2. #GoPiggy That's the 100th win for in a major event.
  3. And also https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2019/5/3/in-the-matter-of-46-xy-dsd-cases-the-iaaf-is-right and https://quillette.com/2019/05/03/a-victory-for-female-athletes-everywhere/
  4. https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/ - Completely different argument
  5. Sorry - The Italian was actually Spanish. My mistake.
  6. Oliver Townend is the first rider for 50 years to be first and second after the dressage phase.
  7. 2014 Olympic medalist Kevin Rolland is in a "serious" condition in hospital after a crash in La Plagne
  8. Some examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weston_(athlete) https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/41327 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foekje_Dillema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeněk_Koubek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_José_Martínez-Patiño https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Kłobukowska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinki_Pramanik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Schinegger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santhi_Soundarajan
  9. Actually if she hadn't been training more for the 1500m and 5000m over the last month I would have expected her to break the world record
  10. Semenya has been added to the 800m race in Doha
  11. The problem for the IAAF is that there are so few athletes in the same position as Semenya so they only have evidence in the events in which that athletes have the greatest advantage. Let's face it, if the race you're best at is the 800m then you run the 800m even if yoy enjoy the 100m more.
  12. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/01/cas-caster-semenya-verdict-mess?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  13. This is probably not the place to post this but it's so good that I don't care....
  14. So men would have two categories they could win and women only one? Not really fair, is it?
  15. Define who would compete in the "open" category
  16. The King of the Olympic Games has retired
  17. Edit - I asked a lawyer friend and he said the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg can overrule a Swiss decision like the one CAS made.
  18. Just want to point this will not be cancelled in the appeal because this was the appeal. It's possible she takes it to a different court but that decision may only apply to the country the court is based. Like Zubkov, the bobsleigh driver, being officially the 2014 Olympic champion in Russia but not in the rest of the world
  19. Couple of points. 1 Nobody is saying that Semenya is not a woman. What they're saying is that she benefits from having some aspects of male biology. We don't exactly how much this amounts to but the best bet is that she has internal testicles that are producing an amount of testosterone close to the normal male levels. 2 To call this a racist decision is nonsense. The IAAF regulations were drafted under the leadership of Papa Diack of the Ivory Coast and are a lot less tough than they were in the past. I can give you the names of British, American, Italian, Dutch, Indian, Romanian, Austrian, Russia, Spanish athletes whose careers were ended before they achieved anything near what Semenya has won. Anyway, if Semenya gets banned, it's highly likely another African emerges to take over from her.
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