Chuck H“Dora, We Should’ve Explored Ya!”
June 4th 2009 13:26
Today, a lot of sports bloggers around the country will be giving you their NBA Finals predictions and breakdowns. Not me. It’s not that I’m not an NBA fan or that I’m disinterested but sometimes I just see something that I must comment on immediately and this is one of those times. Today, I’m giving you a little “Dora the Destroya!”
I was reading a piece on a site called Soccerlens.com about the 15 biggest cheats in sports history and I came across Dora Ratjen. Now, I want all of you to do me a huge favor and take a good hard look at Dora’s stunningly beautiful photograph at the top of this post. Man, she is hot! Then I want you to tell me—if you were a woman lining up against Dora in the women’s high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin—that you wouldn’t have reached over and gave Dora a little “accidental” gender test by quickly grazing your hand over the area where you’d expect to find her male genitalia. Well, you wouldn’t have found much, because as it turns out, Dora had her genitals very tightly bound to the side of her leg in order to conceal them. To make a long story short, Hermann “Dora” Ratjen, finished fourth in the Berlin games in the high jump but was eventually found out and banned from all competition moving forward. She was spotted on the train in Germany during the European Championships a year or so later with a skirt on but with a curious case of 5 o’clock shadow on the face. Ratjen was reported and the truth was found out. One of her German teammates said years later that they all thought “Dora” was a little strange back then because she’d always shower alone and she had a much deeper voice than the rest of them(you don’t say?), but they just wrote it off to her being a little weird. Comical, if you ask me. Come on my female German friends, can’t we put two and two together here? My last name is “Hanf”-- that is very German-- and you are letting me down here with your lack of common sense! The story ended up coming out that Ratjen was forced by Nazi Germany to disguise himself and take back some of the glory for Germany due to the recent beating that America put on them in the previous Summer Games in the Los Angeles Olympics. Ratjen was basically threatened, and told to do this or else.
Take a look at the picture above.. Do you think Nazi Germany paid off those two judges in order for them to keep their mouths shut if they caught an accidental glimpse of
Dora’s "Destroya” when she goes flying airborne?
Honestly, I have to tip my cap to Hermann “Dora” Ratjen, because I don’t give a rat’s ass if you’re a man competing in a female Olympic sport or not, to finish fourth overall in something where you have to sprint and jump like that when your package is taped so tightly to your leg that your circulation must be basically cut off—deserves a round of applause! Go Dora, Go Dora.. Go!!!! I mean Hermie!!!
Chuck Hanf
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Comment by Josh Gans
I haven't laughed out loud yet this morning and this one got me going. Thanks for the great read. Disgusting yet intriguing, weird.
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Comment by Adam Pieniazek
Just like other commenters said, this story was absolutely hysterical. Love your genital test idea, though honestly if I was competing (and was a female), don't think I'd wanna reach over and "touch" "Dora". LOL.
Perhaps people didn't want to take the chance and question her on it and feel bad if she actually was a women, though...I mean come one! Look at her!
Off to stumble this right now.