Women's Marathon Winner Turns Out To Be a Man

Beetwasher

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Fri Dec-05-03 11:18 AM
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Women's Marathon Winner Turns Out To Be a Man

Edited on Fri Dec-05-03 11:19 AM by Beetwasher

Dec. 4, 2003 — A Bolivian runner who finished third in the women's half-marathon in the central Andes region of Meseta del Bombon turned out to be a man, the Peruvian sports institute confirmed Tuesday.

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http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20031201/marathon.html?ct=7342.66639527963

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RobertSeattle

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Fri Dec-05-03 11:47 AM
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1. Haven't seen Ann Coulter in a while, Is that where's (s)he's been?

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THUNDER HANDS

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Fri Dec-05-03 11:50 AM
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2. I've seen the shorts that runners wear

This should have been pretty obvious...unless the guy was taping himself down.

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KinkyDem

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Fri Dec-05-03 11:55 AM
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3. Ummmmm ....

"At that time she was hermaphrodite," explained Marapi. "But later she had an operation and became a total woman."

Wow, let's put her down and call her a "man" even though she was once both, or niether, depedning on how you look at it and she's a female.

Sounds like some serius bias and discrimination on the parts of the Peruvian judges.

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dani

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Fri Dec-05-03 12:34 PM
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6. she was intersex

to one degree or another, then apparently had sex change to female.

This has happened in sports occasionally; for example, the case of Spanish Olympic hurdler Maria Patina (in 1988), who didn't even know she was intersex until after the gene test she was given.

In 1988, Spain's top woman hurdler - Maria Patino - was barred from competing on Spain's Olympic team because she had failed the "sex test." She may have looked like a woman, had a woman's strength, and never had reason to suspect that she wasn't a woman, but examinations revealed that Patino's cells sported a Y chromosome and that her labia hid testes within. She also had neither ovaries nor a uterus - so, in short, Olympic officials did not consider her to be a "real" woman. Patino resolved to fight the IOC ruling. "I knew I was a woman," she insisted to one reporter, "in the eyes of medicine, God and most of all, in my own eyes."

http://www.sextelevision.net/episodes/2-24/prod_info1.html

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rbnyc

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Fri Dec-05-03 01:02 PM
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7. Yep.

I agree. This is pretty sad.

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SoCalDem

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Fri Dec-05-03 11:56 AM
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4. 3rd place is a winner??

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ArkDem

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Fri Dec-05-03 12:20 PM
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5. I hate it when that happens on a date.

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