Summary
THE VICTORY of Caster Semenya in the women's 800 metres final is not the first time an athlete of questionable gender has struck gold in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. During the 1936 Olympic Games, all three medal winners in the women's 100 metres looked more butch than their male counterparts. The winner was American Helen Stephens, whose features were so masculine and voice so deep that one British female athlete openly queried how she was even allowed into the women's section of the Olympic village.
The silver medal was won by Stella Walsh, a Polish sprinter whose true gender was only discovered when he/she was gunned down in the crossfire of a bank robbery in Ohio in 1980. The autopsy revealed that her nickname of 'Stella the Fella' was well deserved: she was found to have male genitalia.See the full content of this document
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We've Been Here Before with Stella the High-Speed Fella
Meanwhile, there was little doubt that one of the German competitors in the women's high jump had someth...
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