The double Olympic champion, who won gold in Rio in 2016 and London four years earlier, will not lineup for the 800m.
PARIS - Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, who lost her appeal over a controversial gender ruling, will not race at this month’s Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, the organisers told AFP on Thursday.
Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba and Kenya’s Margaret Nyairera Wambui, who are among the star female athletes affected by the International Association of Athletics Federation’s ruling this month and who completed the Olympic podium in Brazil will also not feature in Sweden.Semenya’s case has provoked a furious debate across sport around the globe about gender and “hyperandrogenic” athletes, those with “differences of sexual development” .
South Africa’s government on Monday said it would lodge an appeal against the IAAF’s decision which came into operation on 8 May and applies to distances from 400m to a mile and includes the heptathlon.
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