Olympic Gender Drama -The Press Sisters
Since we are a few months from the start of the 2012 London Olympic Games, thought I do a few posts about the gender controversies that have cropped up in past ones. I talked about the 1936 Berlin Games in which there was gender drama on two fronts. Nazi Germany passed off Hermann Ratjen as Dora Ratjen in order to boost their medal count and the ‘That’s a Man’ shade that Stella Walsh threw at Helen Stephens after she beat her for the 100m gold medal and smashed her world record in the process. The 1936 Games weren’t the only ones to have a gender related controversy. In the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo the gender suspicion spotlight was on the Soviet Union’s golden siblings Tamara and Irina Press. The Press sisters were dominant in the international track world at the time. They set 26
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