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The desire to define who counts as a woman for the purpose of sports dates back to Hitler’s Olympics. On the night of Aug. 4, ...
Sports Why I Changed My Mind About the Caster Semenya Case I used to think that rules regulating testosterone in sports made sense. Now I’m not so sure.
DSD athletes like Semenya now have to reduce their amount of blood testosterone to below 2.5 nanomoles per litre, down from the previous level of five, and remain below this threshold for two years.
Olympic runner Caster Semenya reveals she had panic attacks and was in a 'dark' place when she was forced to take the Pill to suppress her high testosterone levels so she could compete with women.
South Africa’s two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya told CNN that having to take testosterone-reducing medication in order to compete internationally was “hell” and had a negative impact ...
Caster Semenya has been in a long-running dispute with World Athletics since regulations requiring her to take hormone treatment to decrease her natural testosterone levels were introduced in 2018.
Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and fi… ...
Semenya, who won the women’s 800 meters at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, declined to lower her testosterone levels and has repeatedly pushed back against the regulation.
Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic gold medalist from South Africa, has won a legal battle over a discriminatory rule that said she needed to lower her testosterone to run in competitions ...
Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal victory on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by sports rules that force her to ...
Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wins Case Against Testosterone Rules In 2018, World Athletics insisted Semenya's natural testosterone levels were too high for her to compete as a woman. Now, that ...
At least three other Olympic medalists have also been impacted by the rules that set limits on the level of natural testosterone ... September 4, 2022 South Africa's Caster Semenya in ...