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Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 06:18 PM Jul 2021

Running as equals

s an ambitious, determined teenager, Annet Negesa urged her body to run faster, and her body, always loyal, obliged her.

Even before the middle-distance runner had a coach, Negesa was qualifying for -- and winning -- major regional competitions. At 19, she would travel to Daegu in South Korea for the 2011 World Championships. After securing a top-three spot in the 800 meter and 1500 meter categories, in four international competitions, the Ugandan athlete qualified to represent her country at the 2012 London Olympics.

The following year, the young woman from Iganga, a small village in eastern Uganda, was named ‘Athlete of the Year’ by the Uganda Athletics Federation and seemed set for a life in the athletics spotlight.

That did happen -- but not in the way she had hoped. Much has been written all over the world about Negesa. Not only because of her victories on the track, but also because of what happened to her off it.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/07/sport/athletics-testosterone-rules-negesa-imali-running-as-equals-dsd-spt-intl-cmd/
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My view is that there is a good bit of junk science being used to keep these women off the track.

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Running as equals (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 OP
Yep. It's a whole lot messier than most people know.... paleotn Jul 2021 #1
As one of the corollaries to Murphy's Law states Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 #2

paleotn

(17,781 posts)
1. Yep. It's a whole lot messier than most people know....
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 07:02 PM
Jul 2021

Humans like nice, neat, little boxes. Male, female, done. But nature doesn't play that game. She likes continuums. Where we see binaries, she likes distributions with overlap. Sometimes lots of overlap. Science is still discovering just how messy nature can be from gender all the way to Chimerism. Nature doesn't do neat, little boxes and the sooner humans come to grips with that reality, the better.


https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-human-chimeras-that-already-exist/

Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
2. As one of the corollaries to Murphy's Law states
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 07:26 PM
Jul 2021

"Mother Nature is a b*tch". She doesn't just throw curve balls, she's a nasty knuckleball pitcher. Anyone old enough to remember the Niekro brothers will know just how crazy that is.

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