Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic 800m champion who now races longer distances due to a rule capping testosterone levels in middle-distance events, is on the 5000m entry list for the world championships…
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World Athletics may bar transgender women from female competition
by The Guardian June 21, 2022The World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, has hailed swimming’s decision to ban transgender women from elite female competition as in “the best interests of its sport” – and hinted that track and…
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Double Olympic women’s 800m champion will return to competitive racing for the first time since June 30, 2021 when she failed to qualify for the Tokyo Games. Caster Semenya returns to…
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Sex verification in sport: the sidelining of intersex athletes
by correspondent December 15, 2021Sex verification in sport has been debated for decades, with the likes of Ewa Kłobukowska and Caster Semenya being banned from women’s sports in the process. As more athletes were prohibited from…
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Caster Semenya’s lawyers want answers from World Athletics after ‘misleading’ study stopped her competing
by correspondent August 18, 2021Caster Semenya’s lawyers have questioned why World Athletics have waited until after the Tokyo Olympics before releasing a bombshell report that admits the findings that triggered controversial regulations banning women…
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The presence of Namibian teenagers Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma in the Olympic women’s 200 metres final weeks after they were banned from the 400m due to excess levels of…
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Athletics
IAAF RESPONSE LETTER TO THE WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION AND ATHLETE ALLY
by IAAF July 17, 2018The IAAF has today responded to an open letter from the Women’s Sports Foundation and Athlete Ally, which requested that the IAAF rescind the new eligibility regulations for the female…
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A South African legal expert has resigned from the IAAF’s disciplinary tribunal in protest at a new hyperandrogenism rule that could result in bans for some female athletes unless they…
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The European Athletics Council has backed the IAAF’s continuing work on the important issue of athlete transfer of allegiance but called for the minimum waiting period for an athlete to…
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South African Government to appeal on new IAAF ruling which could jeopardise Semenya’s career
by correspondent April 29, 2018The South African Government are reportedly planning to lobby other African countries as they prepare to fight against the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) ruling regarding testosterone levels in…