• Semenya: ‘I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my body again’
Caster Semenya has accused athletics’ governing body of using her body “as a human guinea pig experiment” by forcing her to take medication to control her testosterone levels. The double Olympic 800m champion stepped up her attacks on the International Association of Athletics Federations after the court of arbitration for sport released its 163-page judgment explaining why it decided to rule against her in a landmark case last month.
Semenya is appealing against Cas’s decision, which requires athletes with differences in sexual development (DSD) to take hormone suppressants to lower their testosterone below five nmol/L if they want to compete internationally between 400m to a mile. And she made it quite clear that whatever happens she would never again take medication – something she was forced to do between 2010 and 2015.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/18/caster-semenya-iaaf-athletics-guinea-pig under the title “Caster Semenya accuses IAAF of using her as a ‘guinea pig experiment’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
