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Tested: Questions of a Physical Nature

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NPR

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.715K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 1966, the governing body of the Olympic track and field event started mandatory examinations of all women athletes. These inspections would come to be known as "nude parades," and if you were a woman who refused the test, you couldn't compete.

We're going back almost a century to the first time women were allowed to compete in Olympic track and field games, and to a time when a committee of entirely men decided who was a female and who wasn't.

Today on the show, we bring you an episode from a new podcast from CBC and NPR's Embedded called Tested.

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In 1966, the governing body of the Olympic track and field event

0:31.0

started something that's still hard for me to fathom. track and

0:35.0

they were doing something that's still hard for me to fathom. Mandatory examinations of all women athletes.

0:38.0

And they were doing this because of how the women looked or performed.

0:42.0

These inspections would come to be known as nude parades.

0:46.0

And if you were a woman who refused the test, you couldn't compete.

0:50.0

Not only that, for a long time, being a female athlete also meant you had to carry a card that said you were female.

0:58.0

And some were told they were not.

1:00.0

Even though the cards went away, you might be surprised to know that a version of that is still happening in today's Olympics.

1:08.0

We're going back almost a century to the first time women were allowed to compete an Olympic track and field games

1:14.8

and to a time when a committee of entirely men decided who was a female and who wasn't.

1:21.2

To learn more we wanted to share the second episode of a new

1:25.1

podcast from the CBC and NPR's Embedded called Tested. Here's the show

1:31.1

hosted by Rose Eveles.

1:34.0

Welcome back to Tested.

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This is episode two.

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