Flynny Posted 18 December 2006 Posted 18 December 2006 Indian athlete fails gender test Soundararajan cleared a gender test last year 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 medal, 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. Not mandatory "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. Soundararajan is refusing to comment. "I was not informed about the test results and I don't know much on that. I do not want to talk about it," she told journalists. The test is not mandatory, but is carried out if officials want it or a rival team protests, reports say. KP Mohan, a sports journalist, said athletes were usually examined by a team of doctors, including a gynaecologist, endocrinologist and psychologist, and put through physical and clinical examinations during a gender test. The test was carried out 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 This is the second controversy to hit Indian athletes within a month - female shot putter Seema Antil was withdrawn from the Asian Games after she failed a pre-competition dope test. Link Wow. Just... wow.
Lemon Harpic Posted 18 December 2006 Posted 18 December 2006 Link Wow. Just... wow. From Football365's Mediawatch 'A top Indian woman athlete who won a silver medal at a recent regional championship has failed a gender test, officials say. 'It is not clear how she failed the test at the Asian Games in Doha.' Maybe it's just a cock-up?
Sparky Posted 18 December 2006 Posted 18 December 2006 From Football365's Mediawatch 'A top Indian woman athlete who won a silver medal at a recent regional championship has failed a gender test, officials say. 'It is not clear how she failed the test at the Asian Games in Doha.' Maybe it's just a cock-up?
Flynny Posted 19 December 2006 Author Posted 19 December 2006 Maybe it's just a cock-up? Possibly. Let's just hope they have the balls to admit it.
Zingari Posted 19 December 2006 Posted 19 December 2006 long ago at a beauty contest ( anyone remember them?) at the old metal box works in leicester , an indian transvestite won the competition (i dont know what this says about what the ladies looked like) not sure if this is relevant though
Jay Posted 19 December 2006 Posted 19 December 2006 how can she fail a gender test? <_< to much testosterone at a guess and the fact she had a massive Schlong tucked away in his/her/it's Shorts
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