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It's not for lack of trying. Female ski jumpers have petitioned to join every Winter Olympics since Nagano in 1998, and each time they have been denied by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). In fact, ski jumping is the only Olympic discipline to remain men-only. (Technically, Nordic combined...
Watch a video of fans stranded in a blizzard en route to the Winter Games.
As the world's best athletes bid for gold at the Winter Games in Vancouver over the coming 16 days, we can be sure that every double Axel will be scrutinized and every race timed to one-thousandth of a second. But in a world obsessed with precision, one issue...
In the past, sports governing bodies and even the Olympics have permitted athletes with DSDs to compete. In the 1996 Atlanta Games, the last Olympics with mandatory gender-verification tests, seven females were found to have androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition in which a person is genetically male - that...
Another hurdle to a consensus on how to deal with sex ambiguity is the fact that there is very little scientific data on whether DSDs confer any real advantages to athletes. In the 2008 paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Robert Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, noted, "There...