Brittany Griner actuall Brett Griner?
(nimitzhighschool.org)
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Did a quick scan through the article (gag!), and thought this section was interesting:
Which brings us to the current approach of the International Olympic Committee—the one that, unless something changes, will apply to Griner when she vies for a spot on the 2016 USA women's basketball team, as is her stated plan. According to the organization's "Female Hyperandrogenism" policy, top IOC officials can order testosterone testing for women whose gender is for some reason deemed debatable. (Talk about eye of the beholder.) If such an athlete's functional testosterone level (Patino's body, recall, couldn't use the hormones she made) crosses into a "male range," she can't compete unless she takes testosterone-suppression drugs.
Griner says she'll be "fine" when I ask her about the IOC rules, though she also seems to say that she's never had a testosterone test. She'd take one if asked, she tells me, tersely. And what would she do if she didn't pass?
"I don't know," she replies.
"You'll cross that bridge when you come to it," I say, filling the awkward silence.
"Yeah," she says. She's clearly had it with this line of questioning.
So was "she" in the Olympics and did they do any tests?