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South Africans planned to rally in support of track champion Caster Semenya - celebrating her win in the 800 meters at the world championship, and denouncing questions about whether she should be allowed to compete as a woman as racist and sexist.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) has initiated gender tests on Semenya. The tests are expected to take weeks to complete. They are extremely complex, involving a physical medical evaluation and including reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, internal medicine specialist and gender expert.

And, said Sports Illustrated staff writer and track and field expert David Epstein on "The Early Show Saturday Edition," they may never even yield a definite answer about Semenya's gender.

"It's something that's gone on in track and field before, and it's difficult because, in track and field, you want to be able to categorize competitors as male or female, but biologically, it's not as black and white as you might want it to be for competition," Epstein told co-anchor Chris Wragge.

"(The IAAF) used to do this regularly," Epstein continued, "and they gave it up in 1991 because it's not very clear-cut. They will do it when, you know, some of her rivals said rude things, you know, 'Just take a look at her.' She came out of nowhere, she blew everybody away, and everybody doesn't like being blown away, so the IAAF had to respond some way, basically, so this is their response."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/22/earlyshow/saturday/main5259317.shtml?tag=pop
 
I heard that he/she does have one ovary and that he/she is technically a woman and that she must be allowed to keep her/his medals.

Oh well, we can forget about the US women winning any race that he/she is in. With three times the normal level of testosterone,he/she is only going to get stronger and stronger.

They said he/she even fired her/his trainer because he/she thought his work-out regimen was making her/him look too manly, I guess he/she knows now that it wasn’t his regimen!!
 
You wouldn't think a test to see if someone was a male or female would take so long but I guess it does!
 
That poor...thing. This kinda reminds me of that episode from The Simpsons when the scientists couldn't tell if Homer was a man, or Bigfoot.
 
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