2009 World Championships in Athletics

result of media speculation and the efforts of outside sources and with little input from Semenya, herself. In this paper I will be examining Dr Jaime Shultz’s article, ‘The accidental celebritisation of Caster Semenya’ which focuses on this notion of media representation as the basis for Semenya’s ‘celebrity’. Castor Semenya is a South African women’s track and field athlete who won the women’s title for the 800-metre dash in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Following this success, she immediately became famous, not for her athletic abilities, but for the supposed results of a ‘gender verification’ test issued by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) which called into question whether Semenya should be permitted to compete as a woman (Shultz 285). While the results of this test were never released to the public, rumours spread quickly through media sources at just the suggestion that Semenya might not fully fit the gender binary designation of ‘female’. Rumours which were inflated through speculation about her physique, athletic abilities, and inability to meet accepted cultural norms for what designates ‘female’ to those overseeing the international competition. As stated above, Dr Shultz’s article she declares that Caster Semenya’s accidental celebrity status is the result of that media representation. She goes further to designate three major frames through which the media outlets portrayed Semenya’s story. The first frame that she…

in poor attention span in class and overall low grades, especially on exams. As a result of his poor academic achievement, he was held back a grade at his school, Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln holding him back brought him to a grim realization that he suffered the common case in the epidemic of poor balance between academia and sports. He realized that he could be a great golfer and still get passing grades, therefore resulting in his demonstrative balance between academics and sports that set an…

Caster Semenya is an athlete who has identified herself as a woman and has her whole life. However, it changed when she was required to do a gender testing. In this test, she found out that she had no ovaries or uterus, but she did have testes that could produce testosterone. Because of this result, there was a huge debate whether she would be allowed to race as a woman because she had a huge advantage over the others. However, Dr. Myron Genel, a professor at Yale University, states that she is…

First, the Elvis board was connected to a power source and to the computer. A team member then connected the IR optosensor to the Easy Pulse circuit board. Afterwards the Easy Pulse circuit board was wired to the NI Elvis II board using jumper wires, ensuring that the VCC, A0 and GND pins connected to the +5V, AI0+, and AIGND sections respectively. The AI0 was then connected directly to the AIGND on the Elvis board. Once that was done, another team member ran the program Pulse Moniter.vi and…

The NBA has the best athletes in the sport of basketball, so to represent the United States in FIBA basketball tournament NBA athletes were allowed to compete in the 1994 world tournament, starting a new era for team USA. Presently the NBA has grown and expanded into other counties becoming a bigger brand, gaining love for the game from all over the world. However the NBA needs to limit its professional athletes participation in FIBA basketball because the risk of injuries, fatigue and…

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The interview that was selected for this project was from a 60 minutes episode in which Pam Oliver interviewed Victor Cruz, CC Sabathia and the main interviewee the sports executive for Jay-Z ‘s Roc Nation Sports Shawn Costner, also known as Pecas, who is an avid sneaker collector. Pecas has over 1500 pairs of sneakers that consist of autographed, rare releases, customs, and multiple pairs of his favorite sneakers. In this interview Pam used multiple technics to make him feel comfortable and…

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