Caster Semenya, the South African athlete has been given a ruling that has barred her from participating at World Championships.
This is coming after a Swiss judge reversed an earlier ruling on Monday, according to CNN international.
According to the policy recently devised by the (IAAF), all athletes with a difference in sex development should reduce their blood testosterone to a specific level for at least six months and then maintain that for the rest of their athletic career in order to compete in events from 400 meters to a mile.
As a result of the effect of the new rule on her career, Semenya was stood in defiance of the rule.
According to Caster Semenya;
“I am very disappointed to be kept from defending my hard-earned title, but this will not deter me from continuing my fight for the human rights of all of the female athletes concerned,”
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