the suggestion at BoingBoing is that Caster Semenya was not informed of her (she identifies as female, so I'll use that pronoun) test results BEFORE they were published in the media.
Wasn't the article Hil linked to saying that the South African authorities (the ones that would have informed her) were refusing to accept/admit receiving the information? Let me go look. Here it is:
A spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations is reported to have said that its urgent efforts to contact Semenya, the women's 800 metres world champion, were being thwarted by South African athletics authorities. Adding to the confusion, Athletics South Africa (ASA) has denied the claim, insisting that it has not yet heard from the IAAF.
I wish I could say I was surprised, but that is really un-fucking-acceptable.
My heart just breaks for that poor girl.
I'm hungry. I have a yogurt here, but... I don't have any spoons. I do, however, have a KFC plastic spork. Which I'm going to have to use.
Also useful for removing eyes.
I'm not sure I blame the press in this situation. I call shenanigans on the ASA, believing the IAAF made sincere efforts to contact them and contact Caster. There's just no way to convince all (and therefore not really any) of the news outlets to sit on that.
None of the Buffistas are my "who is this person?" facebook person. I actually do know who she must be, I just have no memory of her.
All these large-scale "authorities" aside - the tests she underwent were medical.
The DOCTORS gave information to someone other than the PATIENT *FIRST*.
I don't care about the ASA, the IAAF, or the press (in South Africa or elsewhere). The DOCTORS need to be...well, I have unwise words to finish that sentence.
The *patient* wasn't informed *first* - the rest is crappy frosting on an already-inexcusable cake.
It doesn't look like the doctors had contact with the patient after testing. My guess is they were doing the testing for the IAAF and the results went there. If Caster were having her own tests the results would have gone to her first.
I am not clear on where doctor/patient confidentiality goes sometimes, but that's how it always seems to go for athletic testing. To the governing organisation first.
Is LJ horrendously slow for anyone else?
