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Tamara Press, Soviet athlete who won three track-and-field Olympic gold medals and set 12 world records. Her sister Irina was also a noted athlete. They both faced rumors that they were men or took male hormones, and they retired after it was announced that gender testing would be instituted.

Read Article On March 25, a “No Olympics” banner is placed by protesters in Tokyo during a demonstration against the going ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained ten of thousands of signatures since being launched in Japan just a few days ago. Hiro Komae/Associated Press TOKYO — An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained tens of thousands of signatures since being...

Tamara Press, 3-time Olympic champ whom many thought was male or intersex, dies at 83 Pro News/Info/Results Report Thread Your Name Im working on the homepage tonight and came across an article about the death of a 3-time Olympic champ Tamara Press. She and her sister both won Olympic gold for the Soviet Union but were jeered at by the Western media as The Press Brothers. Many thought they were intersex or possibly male, apparently. Due to the uproar, gender tests were implemented in 1966 and b...

Three-time gold medalist Tamara Press dies at 83 MOSCOW -- Tamara Press, a three-time Olympic champion from the Soviet Union who withdrew from international competition amid speculation and jibes about her gender, has died. She was 83. The Russian track federation said Press died in the hospital on April 26, without giving a cause of death. Press won gold in the shot put and silver in the discus at the 1960 Rome Olympics and gold in both events four years later at the 1964 Tokyo Games. Her sist...

Olympic track and field champion Tamara Press dies at 83 Follow Us Question of the Day   FILE - In this Oct. 20, 1964 file photo, Tamara Press, center, raises her hand on victory stand after winning the women’s shot put finals with a new Olympic record of 18.14 meters. Three-time Olympic champion Tamara Press has died ... more > By - Associated Press - Thursday, May 6, 2021 MOSCOW (...

Olympic notebook: Online petition to cancel Games gets tens of thousands of signatures The petition comes with Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas under a state of emergency with coronavirus infections rising – particularly new variants. Share On March 25, a “No Olympics” banner is placed by protesters in Tokyo during a demonstration against the going ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained ten of ...