• IAAF fears athletes with DSD could dominate the sport
Caster Semenya’s lawyers said the 800m Olympic champion is “unquestionably a woman” who will be fighting for her right to compete internationally without “unnecessary medical intervention” when she appears at the court of arbitration for sport.
Their intervention comes less than 24 hours after lawyers for athletics’ governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, suggested that, if Semenya was successful in next week’s landmark case, it could lead to athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) and transgender athletes “dominating the podiums and prize money in sport”.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/14/caster-semenya-unquestionably-a-woman-lawyers under the title “Caster Semenya is ‘unquestionably a woman’, say her lawyers”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
