🌍 Athletics claimed in 2009 that Semenya had an unfair advantage agains other F athletes. 16y later & there has not been a single study of the performance of women like Semenya in comparison with XX women to assess the possibility of an unfair advantage.
That was until now.
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from the U.K., Canada, and Switzerland have just published as a pre-print — Gollish et al. 2025 — the first such study.
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https://osf.io/preprints/osf/axvqz_v1
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“No, these women like Caster Semenya do not have an “insuperable advantage” over other women nor do they perform like men.
They run like girls!
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https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielkejr/p/why-we-do-the-research?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web