Oh! Are You A Boy or A Girl?
I’m completely intrigued about what the “gender test” actually involved. Too many jokes to pick just one.
I think one of the reasons that sites like The Onion aren’t as entertaining as they used to be is that they just can’t consistently out-spoof the real news. For the last fortnight in particular, the BBC has just been full of completely insane stories.
A top Indian woman athlete who won a silver medal at a recent regional championship has failed a gender test, officials say.
Santhi Soundararajan, who took the silver in the women’s 800m race at the Asian Games in Doha, is likely to be stripped of her medal, reports say.
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Soundararajan is refusing to comment. “I was not informed about the test results and I don’t know much on that. I do not want to talk about it,” she told journalists.
The test is not mandatory, but is carried out if officials want it or a rival team protests, reports say.
KP Mohan, a sports journalist, said athletes were usually examined by a team of doctors, including a gynaecologist, endocrinologist and psychologist, and put through physical and clinical examinations during a gender test.
The test was carried out soon after Soundararajan came second in the women’s 800m race on 9 December.
Reports say the athlete cleared the gender test at the Asian track and field championship in South Korea last year where she won the silver medal in the 800m.
It is not clear how she failed the test at the Asian Games in Doha.