Caster Semenya will now be forced to medicate to suppress her testosterone levels if she wants to defend her world title in September in Doha.
South Africa’s athletics star Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners.
Under such rules, athletes who have a “difference of sexual development” would be rigorously monitored and forced to lower, and then maintain for six months, their testosterone levels to five nanomoles a litre . She won gold in 5 000m at the South African Athletics Championships on Friday — leading to speculation that she is preparing to conquer distances outside the new rule’s jurisdiction.
On the same token a loss for the IAAF might trigger them into throwing all their toys out the cot. Some international outlets have reported that it would re-classify the way genders are split entirely.
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