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Italy s Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics. She will be running the 200 and 400 meters in the T12 classification for visually i
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mpaired athletes in Paris. Petrillo was diagnosed as a teenager with Stargardt disease, a degenerative eye condition. The 50-year-old has lived most of her life as a man and only came out as transgender to her wife 鈥?with whom she has a son 鈥?in 2017 before beginning hormone therapy two year
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s later. AP The 50-year-old has lived most of her life as a man and only came out as transgender to her wife 鈥?with whom she has a son 鈥?in 2017 before beginning hormone therapy two years later. Yes, I have problems with my vision, I m partially sighted, I m trans 鈥?and let s say that s not the best in our Italy, being trans 鈥?but I am a happy person, she had told The Associated Press in an interview at a track she trains on in a suburb of Bologna, where she lives. Petrillo says she fell in love with athletics as a 7-year-old while watching Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea win gold in the 200 meters at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. I wanted to put on the blue Italy shirt, I wanted to go to the Olympics. But 鈥?and there was a but 鈥?I wanted to do it as a woman because I didn t feel like a man, I didn t feel like myself. Transgender women who transitioned after puberty were banned from participating in the female category at the international level by World Athletics last year. But its para c
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oun Bvkc Neeraj Chopra emphatically qualifies for javelin throw final at World Athletics Championships
Sir Alex Ferguson has warned his Manchester United players to ignore Roberto Mancini s claim they can
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effectively wrap up another Premier League title this weekend. United, chasing a record 20th crown, will go eight points clear at the summit if they overcome struggling QPR at Old Trafford on Sunday before Manchester City take on Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. City manager Mancini, who has seen his expensively-assembled side lose momentum over the last few weeks, admitted on Thursday that his side will have no chance of catching United if they defeat QPR and his side lose at Arsenal. But Ferguson, asked about Mancini s comments at a press conference on Friday, refu
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sed to be drawn into more mind games with the Italian after their recent verbal sparring. I m not gett
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ing into that. I don t need to get into that, Ferguson said. We must concentrate on the game ahead and that s Queens Park Rangers. We ll focus on that, not worry about elsewhere. United are strong favourites to win the title for the fifth time in six seasons after hitting a fine run of form. Ferguson s side have taken 31 points from the last 33 available since losing at Newcastle on January 4, and are considered to have an easier run-in to rivals City. But the United manager is taking nothing for granted. I wouldn t anticipate complacency from my players but I do think if you re concentration is not 100% then there will be moments in games like we experienced recently against Fulham, he said