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The Olympic boxing controversy is a reminder of the athletic world's problem with women's bodies, writes Lindsay Gibbs. The Insidious Scrutiny of Female Athletes' Bodies Skip to main content
Women first competed at the Olympic Games in 1900, with an increased programme available for women to enter from 1924. [9] Prior to 1936, sex verification may have been done ad hoc, but there were no formal regulations; [2] the existence of intersex people was known about, though, and the Olympics began "dealing with" – acknowledged and sought to regulate [1] – intersex athletes ahead of ...
The post Photos: 2 Winter Olympic Athletes Posed For Playboy appeared first on The Spun. Olympians Lisa Buckwitz and Janine Flock reportedly both posed nude for the Germany issue of Playboy prior ...
Future IOC president Avery Brundage requested, during or shortly after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, that a system be established to examine female athletes.According to a Time magazine article about intersex people, Brundage felt the need to clarify "sex ambiguities" after observing the performance of Czechoslovak runner and jumper Zdeňka Koubková and English shotputter and javelin ...
Nike unveiled uniforms that U.S. track athletes can don in the Paris Olympics this summer, and one particular female outfit has drawn most of the attention — for apparently being skimpy and ...
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
The 2021 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue had one of the best athletes in the world on the cover. Women’s tennis star Naomi Osaka was one of three cover models for this year’s issue. Full ...
Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. [1] In some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann Ratjen and Horst Ratjen.