If Rhys had played elite sport as a girl and woman he wouldn't say such preposterous things about testing.
Female athletes ABSOLUTELY have to take tests that are essentially verifying they aren't male. Or taking massive amounts of anabolic steroids and HGH. The bigger those female athletes are, the more often they get selected. Women with low body fat and good muscle definition get selected too. Hell, in university athletics, the opposing coach gets to nominate players for testing after championships sometimes.
And that doesn't even START on the testing and paperwork you need to do if you use, say, a steroid inhaler. For your lifelong allergies. On some kind of hormone? And again. You need multiple doctors to have signed off on ANY irregularities that might show up in drug tests. And they are sensitive AF.
I don't know about cycling. But from my background in contact sports, Rhys is wildly, comically uninformed about how female athletics has operated for at least the last twenty years.
Guess what. None of us worried we'd be "found out" as cheaters. Because we weren't. But if you're a 6'3", 230lb tackling machine at 23 (not my stats, but a teammate was in that range) you've gotten the idea that you're not a typical girl. Trust me. You get tested. Because the legacy of cheating by putting men in dresses or plowing testosterone into women is strong.
It's like the gymnasts who are under 5' at 20. They get tested constantly because...cheating athletics federations used to force feed puberty blockers into young girls to keep them competitive.
That's why I can't fucking stand Rhys. His entire life is "LOOK AT ME" and then he had the gall to insist he should not be subject to ANY scrutiny.
