It’s a sham: Study that blocked Caster Semenya from Olympics revoked – Insights from The Wall Street Journal
A World Athletics study that barred Caster Semenya from defending her 800m crown at the Tokyo Olympics has been revoked.
A World Athletics study that barred Caster Semenya from defending her 800m crown at the Tokyo Olympics has been revoked.
“A bombshell in the WSJ this morning reports that SA athletics champion Caster Semenya should never have been barred from competing in the Olympics.”
In a landmark case, South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost a legal battle against rules to force her to take medicine to compete internationally.
Controversy has dogged Caster Semenya, double Olympic gold medal winner in the 800 metres in 2012 and 2016, for most of her career.
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Caster Semenya of South Africa took the gold medal in the Olympic 800 metres on Saturday in a personal best time of 1:55.28 seconds.
Caster Semenya’s race is for much more than the top spot on Rio’s podium. She is carrying the colours of everyone who is different.
Sprinter Akani Simbine made a statement ahead of the Rio Olympic Games, setting a new South African 100m record at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial on Monday.
Athletics SA is once again at a crossroad as it elects a board to take it forward at a special general meeting in Johannesburg on Saturday. Since the suspension of former ASA president Leonard Chuene and the board in 2009 over their handling of the Caster Semenya gender saga, the embattled federation had been overseen … Read more