Unfortunate article abstract — disqualified by gender

From this evening’s SMH web­site comes this abstract/second-level head­line “Floyd Lan­dis likely to lose Tour de France title and has been sacked from his team, after test­ing pos­i­tive for testosterone.”

Yes, he is male, yes, it was a male con­test. This is why arbitar­ily drop­ping adjec­tives to achieve headline-friendly ‘sen­tences’ is a bad idea. It orig­i­nally read “exces­sive testos­terone”, but now appears that all the other cyclists were, erm, some­what lacking.

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posted on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 8:22 pm by Josh, filed under Quotations.

One Response to “Unfortunate article abstract — disqualified by gender”

  1. Sam says:

    Haha! Tuffy is here. He would like to inform every­one that even though he is only one-third of the man that he used to be, he is obvi­ously more manly than those in the Tour de France.

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