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Australian aths boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes
@Source: smh.com.au
She also noted that such testing is not new – and is even familiar to her from experience. Flemming was tested in the same way in the late 1980s and early 1990s when she was a golden girl of Australian track and field, competing at two Olympics and winning Commonwealth Games gold medals in the heptathlon and long jump.
“What probably a lot of people don’t know, and I certainly do, is that in 1988 when I went to my first Olympic games (in Seoul), I had to do a buccal smear – what they’re suggesting, which is the inside of the cheek – and we were issued a ‘femininity certificate’. So this has all happened in the past.”
Flemming went even further back into the history of athletics to prove the point, noting the case of Stella Walsh (born Stefania Walasiewicz), who won a gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, but was much later found to have a chromosomal disorder that would likely see her now designated as intersex.
“So this has sort of been something that has challenged sport for years and years and years,” Flemming said. “I absolutely think the female category, personally, needs to be protected.
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