Caster Semenya will not compete at the World Championships in Doha after a Swiss court stood behind an IAAF rule that would require her to take testosterone-reducing … The rules, called Eligibility Regulations for Female Classification (Athletes with Differences in Sex Development) have seen several athletes switching to other … I know what is right and will do all I can to protect basic human rights, for young girls everywhere.”Although exact details of Semenya’s condition have never been released since she won the first of her three world titles in 2009 as a teenager, she has testosterone levels that are higher than the typical female range.
It is one of the pillars on which competition is based.” It now looks impossible for Semenya, the London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist, to defend her title in Tokyo.
She deserves better than to be targeted by her own sport and ridiculed by the women she routinely runs faster than.
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That is not the case.”Semenya’s “guarantee of human dignity” was also not compromised by the CAS ruling, the judges decided.“Implicated female athletes are free to refuse treatment to lower testosterone levels. (AP Photo) I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, both on the track and off the track, until we can all run free the way we were born.”The South African was almost unstoppable until World Athletics implemented a new policy for DSD athletes, including Semenya, that compelled them to reduce their testosterone levels to less than 5 nmol/L if they wanted to compete in elite events between 400m and a mile.It argued the policy was justified because more than 99% of females have around 0.12-1.79 nmol/L of testosterone in their bodies – while DSDs are in the male range of 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.
Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her long legal battle Tuesday against track and field’s rules that limit female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels.Switzerland’s supreme court said its judges dismissed Semenya’s appeal against a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling last year that upheld the rules drafted by track’s governing body affecting female runners with differences of sex development (DSD).The ruling means Semenya cannot defend her Olympic 800-meter title at the Tokyo Games next year — or compete at any top meets in distances from 400 meters to the mile — unless she agrees to lower her testosterone level through medication or surgery.The 29-year-old South African repeatedly said she will not do that and reiterated her stance in a statement through her lawyers Tuesday.“I am very disappointed by this ruling, but refuse to let World Athletics drug me or stop me from being who I am,” Semenya said. Olympics.
Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost an appeal against the restriction of testosterone in female athletes, it was announced Tuesday. “It has rejected the suggestion that they infringe any athlete’s human rights, including the right to dignity and the right to bodily integrity.”Semenya, who is also a three-time world champion, could still appeal to the European court of human rights.
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