Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resulted in the first policies requiring sex testing. Tested is a six-part series, you can binge all the episodes now in the Embedded podcast and the CBC feed.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely
0:15.0	American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American
0:19.8	from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Hi, invisibility listeners. I'm Rose Evelith and I'm back with the second episode of the new series, Tested.
0:31.0	If you didn't hear episode one yet, start there and then come back to this episode.
0:35.8	And if you want to binge the whole series, all six episodes are out now in the Embedded
0:41.0	Podcast Feed from NPR.
0:43.0	Okay, here's episode two.
0:45.0	Welcome back to tested.
0:49.0	This is episode two.
0:50.0	And just so you know, there is one bad word in this episode.
0:55.0	Let's begin in the summer of 1928.
0:59.0	Almost a hundred years ago now.
1:02.0	That August, the Olympics was held in 18. Almost a hundred years ago now.
1:03.0	That August, the Olympics was held in Amsterdam,
1:05.8	and almost every day the Olympic Stadium
1:08.1	was packed with fans.
1:10.0	And those fans were watching something historic.
1:13.4	This was the first Olympics where women were allowed to compete in track and field.
1:20.4	Women had been allowed in the Olympics before 1928.
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