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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… er, [...]

27 Comments Also tagged 800m, berlin, caster semenya, gender, IAAF |Posted in in the news, sport, that's a bit mad, this is south africa

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