Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman.
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"Brazilian swimmer Rebeca Gusmoa suspended for steroids
She won 2 Pan Am Games gold medals, plus a silver and a bronze. She looks like the Incredible Hulk. And, she used synthetic testosterone. Check out her photos; which is the off-cycle?
Summing governing body FINA announced the doping suspensions of Brazil's Rebeca Gusmao. The International Herald carries the story."
Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman.
With the recent IOC decision (this is not a joke, by the way), all this may become moot. Declare yourself male or female, and the IOC will concur. Remember the Renee Richards/Richard Raskind tennis controversy? Well, now even the IOC is "politically correct".
:cheerleader::banana:
Here's the gist of the IOC's policy:
(from "Olympics' transgender quandary
Debate rages on the fairness of new inclusion rule", Rona Marech, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, Monday, June 14, 2004)
"Last month, the International Olympic Committee enacted a policy on transsexuals before an elite athlete could force the question. The committee said transgender athletes could compete in the Olympics if they met certain requirements, such as completing genital reconstructive surgery and at least two years of hormonal therapy. The IOC also requires that "legal recognition of their assigned sex has been conferred by the appropriate official authorities," such as by a nation's courts.
The committee's medical director, Patrick Schamasch, said the policy was designed "more to protect the athlete who has not been sex reassigned than to help the person who is." If an athlete follows the new rules, he said, "we are almost sure that the advantage of the previous gender will have completely disappeared."
I read in the Journal of Irreproducible Results that one of the Smiths was considering hormonal therapy as a route to ultimate genital reconstructive surgery. Is this true? :duel:
Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman.
With the recent IOC decision (this is not a joke, by the way), all this may become moot. Declare yourself male or female, and the IOC will concur. Remember the Renee Richards/Richard Raskind tennis controversy? Well, now even the IOC is "politically correct".
:cheerleader::banana:
Here's the gist of the IOC's policy:
(from "Olympics' transgender quandary
Debate rages on the fairness of new inclusion rule", Rona Marech, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, Monday, June 14, 2004)
"Last month, the International Olympic Committee enacted a policy on transsexuals before an elite athlete could force the question. The committee said transgender athletes could compete in the Olympics if they met certain requirements, such as completing genital reconstructive surgery and at least two years of hormonal therapy. The IOC also requires that "legal recognition of their assigned sex has been conferred by the appropriate official authorities," such as by a nation's courts.
The committee's medical director, Patrick Schamasch, said the policy was designed "more to protect the athlete who has not been sex reassigned than to help the person who is." If an athlete follows the new rules, he said, "we are almost sure that the advantage of the previous gender will have completely disappeared."
I read in the Journal of Irreproducible Results that one of the Smiths was considering hormonal therapy as a route to ultimate genital reconstructive surgery. Is this true? :duel:
