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Feltham in Middlesex

By 6000 | 6000 | November 30, 2009

Stuff I made up: News today that South African 800m World Champion Caster Semenya is planning ahead for the 2012 London Olympic games by setting up a training camp in the UK near the official Olympic venue. She will be based at Feltham in Middlesex. (Surrey if you didn’t find that amusing)

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Semenya has ‘no womb or ovaries’

By 6000 | 6000 | September 10, 2009

Australia’s Daily Telegraph is reporting (or will be, tomorrow) that it knows the results of Caster Semenya’s gender tests and if their reporting is correct, then it doesn’t look good for Julius Malema’s “Golden Girl”: WORLD athletics is in crisis over the gender of Caster Semenya after tests revealed the South African world champion has no [...]

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The Caster Semenya Debate

By 6000 | 6000 | August 20, 2009

South Africa’s Caster Semenya won gold last night in the women’s 800m at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin. But sadly, that achievement has been over 5 0′clock shadowed by the debate raging around whether Caster is actually female. In all honesty, she walks like a man, shaves like a man and has boobs… or… [...]

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