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So what if some female Olympians have high testosterone?

  • Written by Jaime Schultz, Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University

On August 12, Dutee Chand became just the second female sprinter to represent India at the Olympic Games. Her road to Rio has been anything but easy.

In 2014, the International Association of Athletic Federations banned her from competition on the grounds that her body naturally produced too much testosterone, a condition called hyperandrogenism....

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