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In the spring of 2023, Namibian track superstar Christine Boma was presented with that big, hard

choice.

Alter her body's testosterone levels, or stop racing at the elite level in the female category.

In some ways, Christine says that decision was easy.

She would take the meds.

She wasn't ready to give up on racing just yet.

But the next part was trickier,

actually getting her testosterone levels down to the mandated amount.

Figuring that out fell to someone very close to Christine.

Did you ever imagine that you would actually be involved in like... very close to Christine.

Did you ever imagine that you would actually

be involved in like dealing with something like this?

Look, I was willing to, but I know as a normal general practitioner,

this is something way above my head, sort of,

nah.

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