Talk:Sin Kim-dan

Gender question
My web research found no reliable sources predating the 1966 Time claim that Shin turned out to be a man. Subsequent sources that repeat the claim provide no more detail than the Time piece. The fact that Shin was still competing in 1966 in GANEFO and 1967 in North Korea seems to cast doubt on the story. The Communist propaganda in 1964 specifically mentions her tearful reunion with her father in Japan, which it would be unlikely to do if he said had "that's my boy". I suspect the Time story is a garbled version of that: "reunion correlated with banning" morphs into "reunion caused banning". Shin Kim Dan states that in Moscow 1963 the Russians refused to run against her suspecting she was a man, but the I don't think the NYT's report of the meet supports that. (It doesn't sound like the kind of thing Russians would be protesting then anyway.)

There appears to be a picture of her here. jnestorius(talk) 15:11, 5 May 2012 (UTC)