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Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending a seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field, her lawyers said Thursday, despite winning a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights in July. CBC | World News
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Track’s proposed eligibility, transgender rules would completely ban Semenya and others
Track and field moved toward adopting rules that would place athletes assigned female at birth but have higher testosterone levels, like Caster Semenya, under the same set of rules as transgender athletes who were born male and transitioned to female. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Runner Caster Semenya says she’s not done fighting for the right to compete
Her battle with World Athletics has spanned three courts and five years, but the middle-distance sprinter says the fight isn’t anywhere close to over. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Caster Semenya, barred from 800 metres, pursuing Olympic berth as a sprinter
South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, who is barred from competing in her favourite race and defending her Olympic 800-metre title, is trying to make the Tokyo Summer Games anyway — by switching to the 200. CBC | World News
Read More »Is Caster Semenya playing fair?
She’s one of the most dominant athletes in track and field, but two-time world and Olympic champion Caster Semenya has certain physical advantages that some feel are unfair. The question is, what (if anything) should be done about it? CBC | Sports News
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