Athletics Weekly

He would have been sacked from most other federations. I think this illustrates how much corruption and cronyism there is in South Africa. Never mind the welfare of the athletes.

Racism isn't tiresome, no way. I used the word racism because you said it would not have happened if she were "white and blue-eyed". Effectively, you were saying that people are being racist. I disagreed - I don't think it's racism. Again, I was not calling racism itself tiresome - I was c...

and i say it again a white blue eyed blonde European girl would not be getting this treatment Rubbish. It's happened with white people in the past e.g. all of the speculation about the Press sisters. It would have happened if she were white and blue-eyed (except I suspect that European federations ...

I forgot about the prize money. Good point. If the ASA knew about it and other people knew, too, I would personally give the prize money to the other runners because Semenya isn't eligible and her federation knew that before running her. Sucks that the IAAF couldn't prevent her from running.

i have to concur, the IAAF made their statement about caster's a man ya keeping his medal thinking that ASA didn't know about the gender issue. The fact that they have admitted they knew should give the IAAF enough cause to change their stance and strip him of his medal. The fact that ASA knew abou...

The urine case was pretty shocking and did seem like a case of systematic doping of some sort (not necessarily by the state though, obviously).

'You' magazine has made Semenya over and while I haven't seen all the pictures, the one I did, made me think 'that's a man in drag' :oops: http://www.you.co.za/images/ContentRecords/492009_124025_Main-pic.jpg Wonder when the results will be out. She will definitely improve and blow the race out of t...