Caster Semenya has received the support of three global organisations that promote women’s sport. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/Afp/Getty Images
• Women’s sport organisations say rules are ‘discriminatory’
• Semenya to appeal against testosterone limit for female athletes
My dad, Hendrickson, had his second stroke just before Easter. He used to be a taxi driver, but now, as a result of this stroke, he can’t work.
IOC President Thomas Bach as admitted he has "a lot of sympathy" for double Olympic 800 metres gold medallist Caster Semenya ©Getty Images
Thomas Bach today admitted he had "a lot of sympathy" for Caster Semenya and revealed that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would study the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision which means new eligibility regulations for the female classification for athletes with differences of sex development can now be introduced.
‘The IAAF’s approach has plunged the sport into a quandary.’ Caster Semenya at an athletics meet in Johannesburg, April 2019. Photograph: Roger Sedres/AP
As a female athlete, I thought high testosterone was a problem. Now I realise this is an outdated and indefensible position
Caster Semenya competes in the athletics women's 1500m final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on April 10, 2018.
Ann Peel competed for Canada in the racewalk for more than 15 years, winning medals internationally. She founded Athletes CAN with a group of like-minded athletes, was the vice-chair of Athletics Canada, the first executive director of Right to Play, and created several community sport initiatives over the years.
Former US Olympian with TT roots –
American Lauryn Williams, a four-time Olympian, with T&T Olympic Committee president Brian Lewis at Olympic House on Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday ahead of the three-time Olympic medallist’s discussion on her athletic career and life thereafter.
Lauryn Williams breathed a new life into the conference room at the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) House on Abercromby Street in Port-of-Spain yesterday as she did on the track in winning a number of Olympic medals.
