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3 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Diamond League - Doha - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - May 3, 2019 South Africa s Caster Semenya before the women s 800m REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari/File Photo CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Caster Semenya will make a last-ditch attempt to qualify for the Olympic Games when she races over 5000m at a meeting in Belgium this week. The 30-year-old South African is banned from competing in any race from 400m to a mile after the sport’s governing body World Athletics ruled in 2018 that to ensure fair competition, women with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce them to compete in middle-distance races. ....
Caster Semenya Wins Sponsor Support 04/29/21 (ATR) One of the world’s leading brands comes to the aid of South African runner Caster Semenya. Lux, one of the brands of Unilever, launches a media campaign supporting Semenya’s battle with World Athletics to compete in the 800m event for women at the Tokyo Olympics. World Athletics has ruled that Semenya must take medication to reduce her testosterone levels to compete. She is the 800m gold medalist from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, titles she won prior to the 2018 edict from the athletics federation. Semenya refuses to take the medication. Semenya is an intersex cisgender woman, assigned female at birth with XY chromosomes and naturally elevated testosterone levels. She has battled throughout her career in sport to compete as a woman. Her appeal against the World Athletics rules will be brought to the European Court of Human Rights. ....
By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read PRETORIA, April 15 (Reuters) - Caster Semenya retained her 5,000 metres title at the South African Athletics Championships on Thursday and confirmed she would not be attempting to qualify for the 200m at the Tokyo Games. The double Olympic 800-metres champion cannot compete over her favoured distance having refused to abide by a World Athletics ruling that athletes with differences in sexual development (DSDs) competing in races ranging from 400 metres to a mile must reduce their naturally high levels of testosterone. She has taken that fight to the European Court of Human Rights but it seems unlikely that there will be an outcome before the July 23-Aug. 8 Olympics. ....