Who is maria patino

Updated Fri 3 May , pm. Broadcast Sun 8 Jul , pm. Broadcast Sun 14 Aug , pm. Updated Wed 31 Aug , am. Her masculine face and build prompted accusations that she was a man. The international association conducted an inquiry and cleared her to race after a month ban. Association officials were criticized for the seemingly arbitrary nature of their inquiry. The new IOC policy is crafted to be more transparent, Ljungqvist said.

This scientist is finding out. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. She soon learned that her outwardly female form hid internal testes.

And she is strongly in favor of the since-suspended limits on testosterone. We need to have a rule that applies to everybody. She appealed based on a condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, which prevents her body from responding to testosterone, negating any advantage. She won her appeal and regained her status. But she failed to make the Spanish Olympic team; her moment had passed. That would not be fair, not be ethical.

I understand the positions of other people. I am in favor of rules. The difficulty, she says, is balancing the human rights of intersex athletes with the competitive rights of other athletes. Semenya won the meters at the world championships when she was Her time of Competitors raised questions.

This time she failed the Barr Body test. She was subjected to a complete karotype analysis which took two months to complete, and she was prevented from competing. The Spanish officials asked her to fake an injury, and she did so. For the January Spanish National Games, she was again told to feign an injury, but she insisted on competing, and she came first in the 60m hurdles.

A Spanish professor presented the medical evidence to the Olympic Medical Commission at Seoul in She was reinstated on the grounds that her body could not use the extra testosterone, and thus she had no unfair advantage. She was given a new Certificate of Femininity that exempted her from further sex testing. However her momentum as an ath lete was lost. She failed to qualify for the Barcelona Olympics by hundredths of a second.