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Caster Semenya vs IAAF: What effect will Court of Arbitration for Sport's gender ruling have on athletics?
• 6 years agoAfter two-time Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya lost her legal challenge, the IAAF's controversial rule regulating testosterone levels for women athletes will come into effect on 8 May. AFP assesses which athletes it governs, and for which competitions.
Caster Semenya vs IAAF: Believing that testosterone is a superhuman hormone is a masculinist myth
Gee Imaan Semmalar • 6 years agoWhile the CAS verdict is a huge setback for Caster Semenya — who appealed against the IAAF rules last year — this also sets back our discourse on sex/gender by at least a decade.
Caster Semenya vs IAAF: South African athlete's case reflects broader dilemmas facing sports world
• 6 years agoCaster Semenya's running career is unique in virtually all its details. Yet the dilemmas she has posed for the track-and-field establishment reflect how vast segments of the sports world are now wrestling with issues related to intersex and transgender athletes.
With the verdict against Caster Semenya, CAS has ushered us into world of performance-reducing drugs
• 6 years agoEveryone is supposed to be doing their best to rid sports of doping. Yet, in a baffling decision on Wednesday, South African star Caster Semenya was ordered to take drugs if she wants to keep running for championships. Talk about sending the wrong message.
Caster Semenya vs IAAF: CAS upholds 'discriminatory' DSD regulations to ensure 'level playing field' for female athletes
K P Mohan • 6 years agoThe CAS dismissed requests from Caster Semenya and the South African Athletics Federation for arbitration in the matter of the IAAF's new DSD regulations.
IAAF to stay firm on new regulations classifying female athletes on basis of naturally occurring testosterone levels
• 7 years agoThe IAAF has refused to change its stance on new regulations that will force women with naturally high levels of testosterone to take medication that will lower these levels.
South Africa bans cricket, rugby federations from bidding for major tournaments
• 9 years agoSouth Africa on Monday banned its national cricket and rugby federations from hosting or bidding for international tournaments for at least a year due to their failure to increase representation of black players.
South Africa suspends its track federation board
Fp Archives • 12 years agoOlympic committee president Gideon Sam says his body had appointed an administrator to temporarily run ASA in a move that came on the second day of the South African national track championships.