Report: Asian Games silver medalist fails gender test

[chagrin]

Sorry if repost
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

Dude looks like a lady
Report: Asian Games silver medalist fails gender test
Posted: Monday December 18, 2006 1:09AM; Updated: Monday December 18, 2006 1:29AM


NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters in the Asian Games this month has failed a gender test and is expected to be stripped of the medal, according to reports Monday.

Santhi Soudarajan took the gender test in Doha, Qatar, after the victory.



The test reports sent to the Indian Olympic Association on Sunday said Soudarajan "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman," The Times of India reported. The test was administered by a medical commission set up by the games' organizers.

There are no compulsory gender tests during events sanctioned by the International Association of Athletics Federation, but athletes can be asked to take a gender test. The medical evaluation panel usually includes a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, and an internal medicine specialist.

Dr. Manmohan Singh, chairman of the medical commission of the Indian Olympic Association told the Indian Express newspaper that the Olympic Council of Asia had been informed of the results of Soudarajan's gender test.

Sports officials in the athlete's home state of Tamil Nadu said that they have no information on her whereabouts.

"If the reports are true, then it is very sad and extremely disappointing," her coach, P. Nagarajan, told the Indian Express.

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[Fairplay]

Ultra peanut?

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Fairplay

Ultra peanut?

[FAX]

Dang. I wonder if we should consider gender testing our defensive backfield.

FAX

[Dartgod]

Sports officials in the athlete's home state of Tamil Nadu said that they have no information on her whereabouts.

"If the reports are true, then it is very sad and extremely disappointing," her coach, P. Nagarajan, told the Indian Express.

The reporter really doesn't get it, do they?

[Bob Dole]

It's a man, baby.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by FAX

Dang. I wonder if we should consider gender testing our defensive backfield.

FAX

Or offensive line.

[noa]

Last week we had that story about how Indian penises are too small for the average condom. Now we hear that they are so small you can't even differentiate between boys and girls. NTTAWWT.

[Bowser]

He willingly cheated, and STILL lost to a girl! Ha!

[StcChief]

So not even a needle dick.

[Demonpenz]

this should keep the peace with pankistan for awhile

[Mecca]

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.

Soundararajan, 25, was declared the best athlete at an Indian championship in the capital, Delhi, this year.

In 1999, a woman in an Indian state football team failed a gender test.

Not mandatory

"Santhi was subjected to a gender test in Doha and we have received the report which says she failed the test," said Manmohan Singh, chairman of the Indian Olympic Association's Medical Commission.

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.

This is the second controversy to hit Indian athletes within a month - female shot putter Seema Antil was withdrawn from the Asian Games after she failed a pre-competition dope test.

That's another report, ok question. If it's a dude how does he/she pass a gender test last year and not one this year? That makes no sense sounds like someone being an asshole or something.

[Hammock Parties]

[Mecca]

I still wanna know how you pass 1 gender test and not another one.......

[chagrin]

Hello Adam's Apple, wouldn't that have been the first clue?