Gold Awarded Amid Dispute Over Runner’s Sex

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY and GINA KOLATA, New York Times
Thu, 08/20/2009 - 9:57pm

Doctors are attempting to determine if Caster Semenya, an 18-year-old runner from South Africa, has too many male characteristics to compete in track as a woman.

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