Comments on: South African fury at sex test for track star

By: Eli Jyah - Ld Elon

Eli Jyah - Ld Elon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:55:07 +0000

She should be compensated by the international board of athletics, once its established Shes is a Women.

By: brian odoherty

brian odoherty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:15:25 +0000

The fuss is unfounded.The only fair alternative to scrapping tests is for women to compete against men.That would condemn women to being non-paticipants.As a South African I must point out that the GENDER TEST carried out on fellow South African Zola Pietese (nee Bud) in 1984 produced no such fuss.The race card being played by politicians in South Africa is always used when other arguments are unsound.

By: Slindile

Slindile — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:38:54 +0000

This thing lacks UBUNTU you don’t do that to a human being. The humiliation was not warranted. Even the IAAF has acknowledged that they mishandled this whole thing which then puts questions on the MOTIVE????

By: Slindile

Slindile — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:22:52 +0000

Maybe the IAAF has to conduct these tests, but why now. This girl has always been competing at Junior level, why is there only talk now when she’s kicking the butts of the Europeans. This is just bulltish! South Africa and Africa at large must fight this or else history will judge us very harshly. Caster you rock! Waliklebhula irekhodi (Zulu for, you smashed the reckod!)

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By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:40:31 +0000

I agree with Ananda__the authoroties were terrible in their handling of the case but fact is__rules are there for everyone in competition at this level and how you were raised can never determine gender,,,,imagine a man boxing against female opponents,,,the rules are also there for the protection of ALL competitors.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:19:45 +0000

People can say anything they like about gender, skin colour, culture or nationality.But the reality is that she should be, and is going to be tested. And nothing that anyone says will stop the test from happening.These tests are to ensure that the races are fair for everyone. If someone takes part in a race, they agree to be subjected to testing.If she has nothing to hide, she has nothing to fear from the test.If there are people who believe the test should not occur, perhaps it is because they fear the possible result?

By: Morris

Morris — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:14:07 +0000

Are you all seeing what I am seeing? I just discovered that the true nature of this human being, by analyzing her name: SEMENYA.It sounds like Se—Men—Ya, in other words, see Men, ya!This so-called woman just look like a woman to foul us, but in reality she is a man. Men is in this middle of her name. Even one of my friends told me that, “Because she is so ugly, she is looks like a man, otherwise she is a woman”.Anyway, let’s keep the debate open.

By: Grandsome

Grandsome — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:00:29 +0000

They should do like the old times: Run Naked

By: Ananda

Ananda — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:52:20 +0000

Although Senmenya going through a a posteriori test a questionable, I think because we have using new metrics to assess her gender, all competitors should go through the same test, or at least all the potential winners.Let’s suppose that Semenya fails the test, how do we now know that the others would have not failed the same test?!