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Also, mile 23 is evil. For all the talk about what a brutal course Boston is, NY seemed harder to me from a tactical aspect. Stealth hills are tougher than obvious ones. #nycmarathon
11/02/09
But yeah. The silence on the bridge only emphasized the sound of thousands of pounding feet. #nycmarathon
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Therefore, in response, I demand a genetic test of Usain Bolt to prove he doesn't have ladyparts. I chose to believe his awesomeness is because he's a girl. Michael Phelps, too.
09/02/09
Moreover, of course this is about performance, not appearance. Why should the other competitors care if a male-looking "female" is competiting but failing? You only care about people cheating when they win, for the same reason. If they're losing, they're not hurting anyone.
09/02/09
Santhi Soundarajan sounds like an amazing woman, and I'm really glad that she's doing something positive for future runners.
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09/02/09
I don't see that as an ideal solution, either. And to be honest, I can't really think of a solution that doesn't put somebody at an unfair advantage.
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09/02/09
Here's an awesome commentary on Caster Semenya: [sports.espn.go.com]
From the article by Mary Buckheit, which says it better than I can:
"But like so many other female athletes, her athletic prowess and physical appearance have triggered a barrage of personal questions that male athletes don't have to deal with.
Shaquille O'Neal is a veritable giant, genetically unlike almost any man we know, but we don't ask if he's human. Instead, we call him an athletic freak. A superman. Michael Phelps' torso-to-leg proportions, combined with his large paddle-like hands, make him a marine machine. Yet we call it a gift, not a laughable genetic blunder. Jockeys with 27-inch waists and small shoulders might lack the physical stature we've come to expect of men. Still, we don't call them womanly. We deem them built to race horses.
There's an undeniable double standard at work in sports. As long as women have competed (and as long as evolving attire has allowed us to see their bodies), people have depreciated and humiliated some of the best female athletes by calling them manly. Their enigmatic strength and athleticism is countered with derisive criticism and gender judgments. Society wants women to be toned, not muscular. That's weird. It hopes women are athletic, but not too competitive.
[...] What if we assume Semenya is telling the truth? (As we should.) What if she is just an 18-year-old South African woman? What if she's not a cheater? What if she's not on the juice? What if she's just a remarkable athlete?
There are so many things to consider in these sensitive situations. The first is that we're not asking someone to prove that his or her urine and blood are clean. We're asking someone -- today, a South African teenager -- to justify what we've been conditioned to consider male or masculine. We're asking her for an alibi for her inexplicable athleticism."
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They are athletes. In my experience, athletes tend to be less self-conscious.
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