‘The Other Olympians’: Queerness, war, and sex testing

Zdeněk Koubek appears on the cover of the sports magazine “Star,” June 21, 1934. Courtesy of the Library of the Department of Physical Education and Sports of the National Museum of the Czech Republic.

“The Other Olympians” traces the history of queer athletes at the games, and how sex testing began with track before other sports adopted it. 

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