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Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses testosterone appeal

Updated

May 01, 2019 20:16:43

Caster Semenya has lost an appeal against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) panel of three judges gave a complex verdict and “dismissed both requests for arbitration” from Semenya and the governing body of track and field.

In a landmark judgment, the court said the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) proposed rules on athletes with “differences of sex development (DSD)” were discriminatory.

However, the judges ruled 2-1 that “on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties, such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF’s aim of preserving the integrity of female athletics in the Restricted Events”.

The IAAF has previously said it believes female runners with high testosterone levels have an unfair advantage in events from the 400 metre to the mile races.

Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion in the 800 metres, will now be forced to medicate to suppress her testosterone levels if she wants to defend her world title in September in Doha, Qatar.

However, the CAS judges say the IAAF should not yet apply the rules to the 1,500 metre.

More to come.

AP

Topics:

athletics,

sport,

discrimination,

south-africa

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May 01, 2019 20:09:02

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