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Caster Semenya
Your complete guide to Caster Semenya. South African Caster Semenya is a favorite to win the women's 800m at the World Athletics Championships. However, she is facing accusations that she is a man.
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Caster Semenya competed in the women's 800 meters. Caster is from South Africa.Caster Semenya of South Africa competed in the women's 800 Meters Semi-Final during the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 17, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Caster Semenya is facing accusations that she is actually a man.
Caster Semenya's best time in the 800 meters is 1:56:72 milliseconds. Semenya has a strong physical build and has slight facial hair. The IAAF is aware of widespread accusations that 'she may actually be a he', and is conducting genetic screening to test for gender.
Other female athletes have been dogged by accusations that they are concealing their true identity. The most famous case was the Polish runner Stella Walsh, who won Olympic gold in both the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. She was found, after her death, to posses male genitalia.
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Thoughtful articles by Ariel Levy and Judith Butler explore the larger issues of sex and gender behind Caster Semenya's story — and how the mishandling of the young athlete's "gender testing" has affected her life.
Butler, feminist philosopher and author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity writes persuasively about the flaws in the IAAF's gender-testing system:
[I]f we consider that this act of ‘sex determination' was...
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Looks like South African runner Caster Semenya will be able to keep the gold medal she won at the recent world championships in Berlin.
The public humiliation? That will stay with her, too, long after the gold loses its shine.
Three months after she...
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- OPINION BY DAHLBERG: The shameful case of Caster Semenya (search.msn.com)
- The shameful case of Caster Semenya (search.msn.com)
Davies said all questions would not be resolved though during a meeting of IAAF’s ruling council in Monaco, which began on Friday. It is still up in the air about any decision on whether or not IAAF will allow Caster Semenya to keep the 800 meter ...
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- IAAF keep mum on Semenya (france24.com)
MONACO - The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career. The IAAF said Friday it cannot confirm the South ...
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- Ariel Levy: Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya. (news.google.com)
MONACO (AP) — Gender tests on South African world champion Caster Semenya have not been completed, the International Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday. The IAAF had been expected to announce its findings on Friday, but instead ...
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- Caster Semenya PICS Update! (search.msn.com)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold ... Association of Athletics Federations has agreed to allow the 18-year-old Semenya to keep her prize money. "Whatever scientific tests were conducted ...
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World 800m champion Caster Semenya is still waiting to discover if she has a future in athletics. Photograph: Rainer Jensen/EPA The International Association of Athletics Federations is conducting final discussions before announcing its decision on ...
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JOHANNESBURG — South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday. The ministry also ...
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- Caster Semenya to keep gold; gender tests to remain confidential (sports-ak.espn.go.com)
JOHANNESBURG - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has agreed that South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 metres world title, the country’s sports ministry said on Thursday. The 18-year-old Semenya, who ...
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- IAAF Says Caster Semenya Can Keep Gold Medal (eontarionow.com)
- IAAF denies allowing Caster Semenya to keep her gold medal (story.malaysiasun.com)
- IAAF: We have yet to resolve Semenya case (thestar.com.my)
