In the dispute over the “testosterone-rule” of athletics-IAAF, the South African 800-Meter runner Caster Semenya suffers a legal defeat. The next world Cup will take place without you.
Also if you would like to be started, the South African 800-Meter runner Caster Semenya in the world athletics championship in Doha (27. September to 6. October) your title over 800 meters, according to the current state can’t defend. The Swiss Federal court confirmed on Tuesday that it has tilted the temporary repeal of the controversial “testosterone-rule” of athletics-IAAF, and therefore on the distances between 400 Meter and the mile (1600 meters) in the women’s re-applied. Thus, the two-time Olympic champion and three times world champion Semenya not allowed to go to the Start.
Benefits of increased testosterone-value
Semenya hype edge Rogen, this means, your body produces more testosterone than the other women of the case. According to the rule of the IAAF runners with “Differences of Sex Development” (DSD) is allowed to restart the above-mentioned distances but only then, when you press your increased testosterone levels by taking medication under a limit value. A controversial, the IAAF initiated a study had shown that the benefits of increased testosterone levels on the routes between 400 and 1600 meters particularly large. Semenya was avoided, therefore, in the meantime, in the longer distances and was competed in races over 2000 and 3000 meters.
At the beginning of July, Semenya was announced, however, that she was excluded from the world Cup only on their parade route, which will go 800 meters, at the Start, and a route change in Doha, even if the rule will also be used for you again. “I’m very disappointed with my hard-earned title to defend, but that will not stop me from my fight for the human rights of all affected athletes to continue”, the South African, now, through their counsel, to inform.
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