Stopping before I get started...

I can think of nothing newsworthy to write about today. Work is behaving itself; I don’t want to jinx the cricket by doing anything other than mentioning the fifth test in passing.

I had thought about ranting about Libyans being set free by spineless politicians, but decided that I ought to find out more before doing so – it doesn’t seem to be quite as clear cut as the recent Biggs release, so I shall keep my peace on it for now at least.

I might have grumbled about the attitude of the IAAF in starting a row where there can only be losers and no winners in the Caster Semenya case. Would they have worried if they thought a man was really a woman? I doubt it. Leave the poor woman alone; she is what and who she is. No-one is suggesting she is cheating; she is simply competing with her peers and taking advantage of levels of performance and fitness that make her stand out. I thought that was what it was all about. Now if she was swallowing fistfuls of performance enhancing drugs…

Why dub her a freak when the entirety of athletics and sports generally demands levels of fitness and perfection that to attain them is, by definition, to be freakish?

I seem to have started off on a partial rant anyway. I’ll stop now, because I don’t feel much more informed to argue it through than I did the al-Megrahi case.

They just both feel wrong to me.

Stopping before I get started...

I can think of nothing newsworthy to write about today. Work is behaving itself; I don’t want to jinx the cricket by doing anything other than mentioning the fifth test in passing.

I had thought about ranting about Libyans being set free by spineless politicians, but decided that I ought to find out more before doing so – it doesn’t seem to be quite as clear cut as the recent Biggs release, so I shall keep my peace on it for now at least.

I might have grumbled about the attitude of the IAAF in starting a row where there can only be losers and no winners in the Caster Semenya case. Would they have worried if they thought a man was really a woman? I doubt it. Leave the poor woman alone; she is what and who she is. No-one is suggesting she is cheating; she is simply competing with her peers and taking advantage of levels of performance and fitness that make her stand out. I thought that was what it was all about. Now if she was swallowing fistfuls of performance enhancing drugs…

Why dub her a freak when the entirety of athletics and sports generally demands levels of fitness and perfection that to attain them is, by definition, to be freakish?

I seem to have started off on a partial rant anyway. I’ll stop now, because I don’t feel much more informed to argue it through than I did the al-Megrahi case.

They just both feel wrong to me.