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Sport court to announce Caster Semenya’s fate

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'Ms Semenya does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born'

SA 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya and her lawyer Gregory Nott at the Court of Arbitration, in Lausanne, on February 18 2019. Picture: HAROLD CUNNINGHAM / AFP

The IAAF wants the South African and other female athletes with differences of sexual development to take testosterone blockers. Testosterone is a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, affectings endurance. CAS had been due to announce its decision in March but postponed it several times.

In March Semenya said in a statement released through her lawyers that she wanted to differentiate her case from those of transgender athletes who were born male.

 

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Sport court to announce Caster Semenya’s fate'Ms Semenya does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born'
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