The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed an appeal by Caster Semenya to set aside the regulations, which will come into effect on Wednesday.
CAPE TOWN - The World Medical Association has called on its members not to implement new International Association of Athletics Federations regulations that restrict testosterone levels in female athletes with differences in sexual development.
"We have strong reservations about the ethical validity of these regulations," WMA President Dr. Leonid Eidelman said in a statement on the organisation’s website here. Under the rules, female athletes with high natural levels of testosterone wishing to compete in events from 400m to a mile must medically limit that level to under 5 nmol/L, which is double the normal female range of below 2 nmol/L.
Semenya will run in the 800m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha later on Friday, her final event before the regulations come into place.
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