Santhi Soundarajan won a silver metal in the 2006
Pan Asian Games. Why did she later have her metals
recalled?
a. She was a cross-dresser who pretended to be
female.
b. She was a female who had a Y chromosome
without knowing about the genetic condition.
c. She used performance enhancing drugs that
altered her genetic structure.
d. She was genetically altered at birth to create a
faster runner.
e. Her government gave her a sex change in order
to hide the fact that she was really a male.
Answer: b
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