“On a comparative size basis, men can never compete in running and jumping, in swimming, or in other athletic activities with other more specialized animals and insects, nor is he supposed to. Our ideal is not the development of athletic freaks. The Olympic ideal is the complete man.”
Caster Semenya and the Broken Olympic Ideal
Caster Semenya and the Broken Olympic Ideal
Caster Semenya and the Broken Olympic Ideal
“On a comparative size basis, men can never compete in running and jumping, in swimming, or in other athletic activities with other more specialized animals and insects, nor is he supposed to. Our ideal is not the development of athletic freaks. The Olympic ideal is the complete man.”