So quick she's become a blur

[Natasha]

So quick she's become a blur

http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/So-quick-she39s-become-a.5579722.jp
8/23/09

The great and the good of athletics, men like Michael Johnson and women like Denise Lewis, complained at the humiliation being heaped on Semenya, while South Africa reacted with a fury. Yet, with the IAAF test results not yet in, could the mannish, flat-chested, super-powerful Semenya really be one of the boys?

It's not an outlandish question. Down the years there have been plenty of male athletes masquerading as women. Pentathlete Mary Rand was denied a gold medal in 1964 by the Ukrainian athlete Irina Press, only for Press and her sister Tamara, who between them won five Olympic gold medals, to mysteriously disappear in 1968 when gender testing was introduced.