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South Africa's Olympic Chief 'Defied' Docs in Caster Semenya Case
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsThe suspended chief of South Africa's Olympic committee is accused of "gross misconduct" after he allowed distance runner Caster Semenya to compete in the 2009 world championships against the advice of medical officials. The revelation came in a report commissioned by the South Africa's Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee that claims Leonard Chuene "defied" calls that Semenya not be allowed to compete because there would likely be questions of her gender identity. That indeed turned out to be the case after she won the 800-meter title at the event and an 11-month investigation into her ...
Caster Semenya Wins First Race Since Being Cleared
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsLAPPEENRANTA, Finland -- Caster Semenya won her first race since being cleared to return to competition after undergoing gender tests, winning the 800 meters on Thursday in a modest time against a weak field at a low-key meet. The 19-year-old South African won the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 4.22 seconds at the Lappeenranta Games -- a long way off the 1:55.45 Semenya clocked when she won the gold medal at the world championships in Berlin 11 months ago. Semenya, though, was happy with her time after such a long absence. "To come and run a 2:04 is not easy, especially after what happened," ...
Caster Semenya Cleared to Run After Gender Test
By not in system - AOL News(July 6) -- South African runner Caster Semenya , who has been sidelined for nearly a year as officials conducted a gender verification test, has been cleared to resume her track career, the sport's governing body announced on Tuesday. ...
Caster Semenya Cleared to Run Following Gender Test
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsSouth African runner Caster Semenya, who has been sidelined for nearly a year as officials conducted a gender verification test, has been cleared to resume her track career, the sport's governing body announced on Tuesday. "The IAAF accepts the conclusion of a panel of medical experts that she can compete with immediate effect," the International Association of Athletics Federations wrote. Semenya, a relative unknown at the time, dominated the 800-meter trial at the world championships in Berlin in August, leading to calls for the muscular teenager to have her gender checked. The Sydney ...
Caster Semenya Heads Back to the Track, Without IAAF Backing
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAfter several months of waiting for test results to determine her gender, record-breaking South African runner Caster Semenya has announced that she plans to return to the track -- with or without the go-ahead from the International Association of Athletics Federation. "I hereby publicly announce my return to athletics competitions," Semenya said in a statement, calling the highly publicized speculation about her gender an infringement "not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy." ...
Caster Semenya Plans Return to Competitive Running
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsSTELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) -- Caster Semenya intends to return to competition this season even though track and field's ruling body has yet to release results from the runner's gender tests."I hereby publicly announce my return to athletics competitions," Semenya said in a statement on Tuesday shortly after a meet in South Africa denied the 19-year-old world champion's request to run.Semenya has not raced or spoken publicly since winning the women's 800 at the world championships in Berlin in August, when a dramatic improvement in times and muscular build led the International Association ...
Caster Semenya 'Like a Raped Person'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyRia's troubling recent post about the (possibly) intersexual South African runner Caster Semenya echoed again when I read that the athletically gifted teenager is on a suicide watch after her humiliating and very personal health information was leaked from an investigation by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The South African Sports Minister hinted at possible legal action against the IAAF, saying, "She is still a girl." ...
Caster Semenya Is a Woman, Tests or No Tests
By Ria Misra - Politics Daily"She may be a hermaphrodite, but so what? She is still a girl." Those were the words of South African Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile, who last week demanded that the International Association of Athletics Federations apologize for violating runner Caster Semenya's privacy in the face of widespread, but unconfirmed, reports that the results of her gender test had been leaked to the media. In August, Semenya won the women's 800-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. But upon her victory, the 18-year-old South African runner came under scrutiny by competitors, who ...
A Mind-Bending Week in Review
By David Whitley - AOL NewsIt's not often two women steal the week's sports show. If Caster Semenya (right) qualifies as a woman, we just had a rare double bill. Her gender-bending had the world scratching its head, at least until Serena Williams had us all covering our children's ears. She called a linesman everything except a "hermaphrodite" in a U.S. Open meltdown that will live forever on YouTube. Not that there's anything wrong with being a hermaphrodite, unless it helps you become a world track champion. Then you have a full-blown international crisis, the kind that allows sportswriters to use words like ...
Tests Allegedly Reveal Runner Caster Semenya Is a Hermaphrodite
By Mark Hasty - AOL NewsAfter easily winning gold in the women's 800 meter race at August's World Championships in Berlin, South Africa's Caster Semenya found herself the target of allegations that she was not actually a woman. At the time, International Amateur Athletics Federation officials were quick to note that Semenya was undergoing gender testing, but the results would take a while.Well, it's been a while, and the results are now in. Semenya is reportedly intersexed, possessing both male and female genital organs.The New York Daily News reports that Semenya lacks both a uterus and ovaries but has undescended ...
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