Ross Tucker and others have pointed out a mistake I made in the above article: a test for exogenous testosterone looked at the testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio. Not estrogen. Read more

Different. Sport scientist Ross Tucker,
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In fact, I know that men and women can’t be separated by testosterone alone, but for the purposes of defining women’s sports, testosterone limit is the best, if imperfect, method. If you agree that there should be a protected class of women’s sports, how would you define that division?
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As you point out, there are lots of differences other than testosterone between males and females. And it appears you know more about it than I do because I don’t know what some of those factors you mention are. Maybe it’s not known whether somatomedin or blood epinephrine actually benefit athletic performance. But… Read more

You’ve nailed the ridiculousness of having no dividing line, and the danger to women’s sports. If you’re going to have women’s sports, you need to create a dividing line (which is, admittedly, arbitrary since there’s no neat line biologically) and defend it. The beauty of the testosterone limit is that it rightly did… Read more

“I feel like I am not doing a great job of capturing, in words, the dread that this produces in me. Across the room, one of my dogs is licking its asshole with intense fervor; it is making sounds like the stirring of a pot of macaroni and cheese.” Read more

yes
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That is true in the same way that just about every come-from-behind, underdog, or world record run was a fuck-up that miraculously didn’t happen.
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I wept in agreement.
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“Pay your fucking writers.” Read more

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“How many ways can you avoid saying that the president is a bumbling, pillow-fisted shit-for-brains, in a story about that exact fact?” Read more

Gwen Jorgensen, Nicola Spirig, Richard Murray, Javier Gomez. Easy. Gwen Jorgensen was tested 11 times in 2016 by ITU alone. That’s a lot. All of the athletes I mentioned have been tested VERY frequently, and have been racing very well consistently for several years. Though not failing a test is certainly not a… Read more

You know, we are probably twins separated at birth, because just after I wrote that headline, I thought the same thing. After a bit, I thought it made a nice double entendre. Which I spelled wrong.
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100%. Don’t know how we’re going to do it, may have something to do with Russians, or drugs, or both. But it’s going to be great! Tremendous!
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He expressly stated, he’s not the scientist and can’t explain the “turning up” and “turning down” of genes. I’ll have to talk with Pitsiladis about that part.
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because doping isnot within the rules.
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treadmills drain my will to live.
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