Believe it or not, the Beijing Olympic authorities are planning to test female Olympic athletes that are suspected to be males based on their external appearance.
A test lab at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital has already been set up, where blood samples will be tested for sex hormones, genes and chromosomes.
In 2006, Indian athlete Santhi Soundarajan lost his/her Asian Games silver medal after failing a gender verification test. Typically, male athlete pose as women to cheat the competition.
There is no word whether the test will be applied to males who look feminine, so the notorious pregnant man could still pass as a man where he/she to compete...
Olympic Sex Testing
China Sets Up Lab (Blame Pregnant Man?)
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