Stranger Than Fiction

In what can only be explained as unexplainable, Beijing has set up a gender determination lab to make sure that there are no male athletes secretly disguising themselves as females in order to give themselves a physical advantage in the games:

Experts at the lab, located at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, will evaluate dubious cases based on their external appearance and take blood samples testing sex hormones, genes and chromosomes, Xinhua news agency said.

Sex testing has been routine at the Olympics and other sports events for decades, triggered by fears that male athletes sought to cheat by posing as women.

Indian athlete Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of an Asian Games silver medal in 2006 after failing a gender verification test.

Not sure what to say about this, other than the fact that when China usually tests you for gender, it's in the womb so they can find out if you're a girl baby and abort you. Here's hoping nobody gets killed over this, but seeing as how it's China, you never know...