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Post by Neko Bazu on Dec 18, 2006 9:56:08 GMT -1
Indian athlete fails gender test 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 award, 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.
"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.
The test is not mandatory, but carried out if officials want it or a rival team protests, reports say.
The test was done 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This the second controversy to hit Indian athletes within a month - female shot putter Seema Antil was withdrawn from the Asian Games she failed a pre-competition dope test.
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The mind boggles...
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 10:25:47 GMT -1
a gender test? What does it constitute? Just strip from the waist down love!
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Post by HURLOCK on Dec 18, 2006 10:26:56 GMT -1
a gender test? What does it constitute? Just strip from the waist down love! constitutes meat and two veg
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 10:46:12 GMT -1
I find that the easiest way to tell is if they've got knackers they're a geezer (or fatima whitbread)
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Post by Neko Bazu on Dec 18, 2006 11:24:34 GMT -1
You'd think it'd be obvious, wouldn't you? ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png)
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 11:25:23 GMT -1
fairly...
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Post by Neko Bazu on Dec 18, 2006 11:28:18 GMT -1
Maybe they just didn't check? ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) "Why's your voice so deep?" "My dad trod on my throat when I was a baby; deformed the voicebox" "I see... and the adam's apple?" "Swelling" "Right... the facial hair?" "Women have the right to wear a beard too!" "Ah, yes, of course, sorry... and, the uhm... the bulge in your shorts?" "It's my lucky carrot" "I see... well, nothing unusual here, on you go!"
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 11:29:54 GMT -1
I can see that performed by the Michaeld Palin character in Life of Brian - the one who says "Crucifixtion? Good. Line on the left, one cross each"
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Post by Neko Bazu on Dec 18, 2006 11:30:26 GMT -1
I can see that performed by the Michaeld Palin character in Life of Brian - the one who says "Crucifixtion? Good. Line on the left, one cross each" Spot on! ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 11:32:45 GMT -1
of course, there was that, and the fact that her middle name is Alan.
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Dec 18, 2006 11:37:17 GMT -1
Not just in this country they try to pass themselves off as other people then.
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 11:38:35 GMT -1
who do?
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Dec 18, 2006 11:39:48 GMT -1
Asians.
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Post by Shippers on Dec 18, 2006 11:40:34 GMT -1
Oh shit! I'm having nothing more to do with this thread.
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Dec 18, 2006 11:43:39 GMT -1
Don't mean it nasty,you pull them over and issue a producer,2 days later brother,sister,cousin is producing on their behalf. Same with alot of foriegners.
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