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#26
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Daloth said:
Not saying she is a man, but something wrong hormonally does make sense. Otherwise, why turn down playing for the olympic team?
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Geno was coaching the women's olympic team. Maybe she's like us and dislikes him and she didn't want to be the person to hand him an easy gold medal.
 
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VolEire said:
Geno was coaching the women's olympic team. Maybe she's like us and dislikes him and she didn't want to be the person to hand him an easy gold medal.
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That's a pathetic cop out.

Lady vols have played for him to win titles, huskies have played for pat to win titles. Hell, celtics and lakers and several other teams that hate each other played together to win olympic titles. You put your **** aside for your country in that regard.

Mark my words she will most likely never play in the olympics, and if she does they will find out she has something wrong that would make it illegal for her to play.
 
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You don't want to assume anything about someone. It should be noted that even if Griner does have hormonal issues etc... then it is no fault of her own. Where fault would be found would be if she knew she had an unfair advantage and still sought to play. The NCAA has no gender testing to my knowledge but it is something that will become more and more of an issue as time goes on.

People think of gender as a binary thing but it is often more of a continuum with certain people caught somewhere in the middle. It would be hard to decide which gender they should be allowed to compete against or if they should be allowed to compete at all.

It is not a stretch to say that ladies who have more testosterone than the norm will be better at sports and are more likely to advance to the highest levels. At what point do you say that natural variation becomes too great an advantage? Where do you draw the line? There are people who are internally one gender and externally another so even a visual inspection may not produce the results you would expect. I think the African runner who was so masculine had just such a problem.

At any rate, there are lots of people playing women's basketball with deep voices and masculine features. I do not doubt that at least some of them have gender issues of one sort or another. It is a bit of a sticky wicket that no one feels comfortable poking around in quite yet for fear of what they might find or what the repercussions might be.
 
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Daloth said:
That's a pathetic cop out.

You put your **** aside for your country in that regard.
You don't have to. I've had friends that been in the olympics, and others that could have but didn't for one reason or another. Being in the olympics is a choice. She just made the choice not to.
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#33
blah,blah,blah,i just wished they would call the fouls she gets away with,that would change her game
 
#35
#35
VolEire said:
I agree, Griner has gotten the star treatment in some of the games I've seen her play in.
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This happens with all star players though. Hansbrough got it, Reddick and dukies got it, UT has gotten advantage of it even. It's just something being a star gets you.
 
#36
#36
Daloth said:
This happens with all star players though. Hansbrough got it, Reddick and dukies got it, UT has gotten advantage of it even. It's just something being a star gets you.
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your Avatar fits this well :) i don't think they should do that,there is no reason to give excellent players the give me benefit calls,because there good
 
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