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...press conference came after an Australian newspaper reported that a gender test revealed that Semenya has an intersex condition. In a story published on Friday, the Daily Telegraph said that the test shows the 18-year-old has no ovaries, but rather internal male testes. Semenya came to the world's attention after winning the African Junior Championships in Mauritius in August and then the 800 meters at last month's World Championships in Berlin by an amazing 2 seconds. Her extraordinary times and masculine appearance led the IAAF to request gender verification tests. (Read: "Is a Female Track Star...
South African athletic officials say they have not received results from the tests - and the IAAF has refused to confirm the Telegraph's story. But Stofile said the results are irrelevant: "She may be a hermaphrodite, but so what? She is still a girl ... a young girl enjoying growing up." Stofile added that if Semenya is ruled ineligible for further competition by the IAAF, "it will be a third world...
...used to it now because I have to be. It's not his job, it's his passion." - Nicole Robert, on her husband's dangerous pastime. (London Daily Telegraph, June 23, 2005) (See the Shadowless Skyscraper in the Best Inventions...
...stop you doing something and they can't. When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it. Maybe if there were 1,000 of them, they could stop me." -To a London Daily Telegraph reporter, June...
...Farewell to a peacemaker," ran the headline of the Belfast Telegraph on Aug. 27. Outside the U.S., perhaps the warmest tributes to Ted Kennedy have been paid in Ireland, most of all in Northern Ireland, where he is credited - although far from unanimously - with helping bring about the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the political breakthrough that paved the way for Protestants and Catholics to share power...