The Enhanced Games: How to Take Drugs and Still Lose to High Schoolers
It's hard to convey to a non-track person how slow this meet was. Even for people past their prime.
Steve Magness
· 6 min read
Athletics
A collection of 5 posts
For Competitive US Runners, a ‘Non-Binary’ Identity Has Become a Lucrative Asset
The New York Road Runners club now allows mid-grade men to earn prize money by opting into race categories reserved for athletes claiming to be neither male nor female.
George M. Perry
· 15 min read
On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead
It’s wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females.
Quillette Podcast 32 – Doriane Lambelet Coleman on the Caster Semenya Trial
Jonathan Kay talks to Doriane Lambelet Coleman, the 800m-runner-turned-academic, about the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s rejection of Caster Semenya’s appeal. As a result of the decision, Semenya will not be able to compete in women’s middle distance events unless she chemically alters her testosterone level. Doriane
Quillette
· 1 min read
Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics
The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.
Julian Vigo
· 14 min read