Madeleine Pape, who represented Australia in the 800m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, now acknowledges that the issue is more complicated and the SA runner is being treated unfairly
Caster Semenya. Picture: REUTERS
Madeleine Pape represented Australia in the 800m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, where she encountered Semenya. The Court of Arbitration for Sport concurred with that view on Wednesday‚ dismissing Semenya’s appeal against the International Association of Athletics Federation’s requirement that female athletes whose amount of testosterone is — as hers is — higher than a stipulated level will need to lower it before they are allowed to compete in certain races.
“While I was initially confronted and confused by this discovery‚ I eventually began to question the convictions about fairness and sex difference that I had long held as an athlete. Pape’s evolved thinking led her to testify in support of Dutee Chand — an Indian athlete who‚ like Semenya‚ has a condition called Difference in Sexual Development [DSD] — in another CAS case brought against an earlier set of IAAF regulations.
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