South Africa’s double 800m women’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya has hit out once again at World Athletics in her latest tweet. Photo: Twitter @Caster800m
Caster Semenya hits out at World Athletics in latest tweet. Tsek!
South Africa’s double 800m women’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya has hit out once again at World Athletics in her latest tweet.
South Africa’s double 800m women’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya has hit out once again at World Athletics in her latest tweet. Photo: Twitter @Caster800m
South Africa’s double 800m women’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya has hit out once again at World Athletics in her latest tweet.
Semenya is currently unable to compete in her favourite 800m – the distance in which she achieved Olympic glory in London and Rio de Janeiro – because she refuses to take testosterone-reducing drugs.
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World Athletics bar female athletes with high testosterone levels from competing in races between 400m and a mile (1 600m), because the governing body says the hormone increases muscle mass and oxygen uptake.
Semenya, 31, has made several unsuccessful legal attempts to overturn the ruling.
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Defending the ban, World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe said “there is 10 years of solid science that underpins the regulations”.
Writing on her Twitter page on Saturday, Caster Semenya said: “So according to World Athletics and it’s members I’m a male when it comes to 400m,800m, 1500m and 1600m! Then a female in 100m,200m, and long distance events. what a research. What kind of a fool would do that? Hai mathata man, bare sepela o di bone.”
On Wednesday this week Semenya won a 3 000m race in a personal best time of eight minutes and 54.97 seconds as she eyes qualifying for the 5 000m at the 2022 world championships.
She knocked almost 10 seconds off her previous best 3 000m time in winning the Athletics South Africa Grand Prix Series event at a blustery Green Point Stadium in Cape Town.
Caster Semenya is hoping to qualify for the women’s 5 000m
The qualifying time for the world championships 5 000m in the American city of Eugene is 15:10.00 and Semenya is hopeful of making the cut.
“I am there or thereabouts,” she told reporters after her victory.
“If it happens, then it happens.”
