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Intersex people in sports have generated huge controversy. In particular, those who compete as women are often seen as having an unfair advantage in ....
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The high-jump transgender scandal that started in Essex THE debate surrounding New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard becoming the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympic Games, is rumbling on- and most likely will do for some time. Controversy has followed the decision by officials to select Hubbard for the women’s weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020, after qualifying requirements were recently modified. Hubbard had competed in men’s events before coming out as transgender in 2013 and critics say the athlete has an obvious unfair advantage over her competitors. This is not the first time something like this has happened in sport. The difference is, in decades past women found themselves competing against a male athlete without even knowing it. ....
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Tamara Press, Olympic athletics champion whose career was overshadowed by doubts about her gender – obituary The two Press sisters won six Olympic medals between them but retired following the introduction of gender testing Tamara Press, right, and her sister Irina Credit: SPUTNIK/Alamy Tamara Press, the former Soviet athlete, who has died aged 83, won gold medals at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics; but her career, like that of her younger sister Irina, was dogged by speculation about her gender, an enigma left unresolved when both sisters abruptly withdrew from competition in 1966. In Rome in 1960, the Press girls became the first sisters to win Olympic gold medals, the incredibly muscular Irina winning the 80-metre hurdles a full three strides ahead of her nearest competitor and the even more impressive-looking Tamara winning the shot put by nearly five feet while taking a silver in the discus. ....