Forget Testosterone, there’s another ‘T’ we need to tackle to make sports fair

The International Olympic Committee has introduced a rule which might exclude women with naturally high testosterone levels: statistical evidence suggests that this may not make sport ‘fairer’ and dealing with another ‘T’ might be more effective...

The other 'T'

In 1968 Thomas Khosla, a lecturer in medical statistics at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, published an article in the British Medical Journal on what he called the 'Unfairness of Certain Events in the Olympic Games'. The unfairness was caused by another controversial T: Tallness...

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