Without medication or surgery, some female runners won't be allowed to compete at anymore int'l meets this season, including this year's world championships: 'It's wrong of (the) IAAF to ask us to take medicine to alter our natural body function.'
NAIROBI, Kenya — Another Olympic medalist has criticized the IAAF's testosterone regulations and said she will refuse to take hormone-reducing medication.
"It's wrong of IAAF to ask us to take medicine to alter our natural body function," Wambui said Tuesday, speaking Swahili in an interview in Kenya.The 23-year-old Wambui, the world junior champion in the 800 in 2014, compared the regulations to"losing your job." Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800-meter champion, lost her case against the IAAF at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, allowing track's governing body to implement testosterone limits in races from 400 meters to one mile.
That has been criticized as unethical by the World Medical Association, which has advised doctors not to prescribe the medication or treatment if it's not requested and there is no medical need and it's solely for athletic purposes. The contraceptive pills and hormone-blocking injections would have negative side effects.
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