I’m so tired of this lazy, reductive dismissal. “It’s just Big Pharma, MAAAAN.” If you eliminate gender classes for sport and replace them with testosterone classes, you’ll have a High T class (exclusively men), a Medium T class (essentially intersex women and low-T men) and a low-T class (almost exclusively women).

That’s incorrect - she’s both. It’s unfortunate that we know this insanely personal info, but we do; apparently she has a vagina, no uterus, and testes. She’s both sexes, which causes trouble when you have a sex-based classification system.

He finished only six minutes back? If he was healthy, Diniz would have been quite the menace.

My “ridiculous assumptions” are based, literally, on what you’ve posted. Who you assume is lying, what you assume their motives are, what behaviour you round up (donation in lieu of arrest for crime caught on tape = extortion) and what you round down (lying = “inaccurate version of events”, vandalism = misbehaviour).

And I love when people miss the point, then try to get snarky about it. It's never not funny.

I’m saying that you’re not supporting your statements with evidence, you’re rationalizing your feelings with implications and assumptions because someone on your “team” is being accused of something, so you feel defensive.

That explains a lot, because that would be an awful lot of jet-black hair for a room full of 40- and 50-year olds.

You just don’t get it. The Brazilian authorities are obviously lying, just like rape "victims" and black "people".

That picture is amazing.

The article you linked to is discussing gender (“Disorders of Sex Development”) testing, not testosterone testing.

Are you sure about that?

So how do they catch PED users taking testosterone?

They are testing everyone for hormone levels, it’s kind of the source for this whole problem.

This is bullshit. The Brazilian team was clearly diving.

So the ref probably got the call against the US goal right, definitely got the call against the Swedish goal wrong, and the US feels the need to complain about the refs? That’s rich.

Wait... saying rich Hollywood actresses aren't down to earth makes you an asshole? Who expected all of these people to be down to earth?

Stop playing fake horns on synthesizers. Sweet Jesus, just hire a session player for $50 and knock it out in 20 minutes. You're not asking for Flight of the Bumblebees, it's a basic-ass 5 second hook, and shitty synthesizer sax is shitty.

I almost made the team for the Pan Am Games in '99, when I was 24 (and single). And my second biggest disappointment was that I wouldn't get to stay in the Athlete's Village surrounded by a bunch of elite athletes with a party atmosphere and a road trip mentality.

Kind of, but it mostly reminds me of Marion Jones, her husband C.J. Hunter, and her eventual banning for steroid use.

If you’re particularly “gritty” and old school, smoking the keeper in the face on purpose happens from time to time. But, like baseball, your keeper needs to be ready for retaliation.