The Crying Game Of Track?

A prize winning track athlete who competed in women's events was actually a man, a court in Zimbabwe has been told. [Ed. This sounds like a very bad movie.] Prosecutors alleged Samukaliso Sithole offended the dignity and sexuality of a woman who befriended him, confided in him and felt comfortable being naked around him, all the while believing him to a woman. [Ed. Normally I would think it would be pretty easy to figure out the differences, but it appears I'm wrong.]

Sithole told the court he was born congenitally deformed. A tribal healer, known in the West as a witchdoctor, gave him ``female status'' but the spell didn't work properly because his family didn't pay the healer's full fee. [Ed. I knew it! Medical malpractice suit will be filed soon I bet. Maybe I should have taken MedMal.] When the police arrived to arrest the athlete, who was boarding a train to compete with his...err...her...err...whatever teammates, Sithole tried to sprint away from the train station but was caught. Police then supervised a medical examination. [Ed. Normally you need a male officer with a male suspect and a female officer with female suspects. I wonder if the cops used both just to be safe in case their informant was lying?]

Sithole competed in women's triple jump, javelin, shot-put and running events, and brought home Zimbabwe's only gold medal from the Southern Region Athletics Championships in neighboring Botswana last June. [Ed. At least Sithole went out a winner!]