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South Africa's golden girl Caster Semenya's athletics career is on the brink after the latest World Athletics rules regarding transgender athletes and athletes with differences of sexual development. | Sport24news

South Africa's golden girl Caster Semenya's athletics career is on the brink after the latest World Athletics rules regarding transgender athletes and athletes with differences of sexual development .

On Thursday, World Athletics released new, stricter policies governing the women's category, barring trans athletes from competing and enforcing more stringent rules for DSD athletes, which included further lowering of their testosterone limit levels to below 2.5nmol/L . This is down from the current level of 5nmol/L, and forces DSD athletes to maintain levels below 2.5nmol/L for two years rather than just one, as is the case presently.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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