Caster Semenya was invited on Friday to run in an 800m race in Morocco on Sunday after previously saying she had been denied the right to participate in the event, but the invitation came too late for her to get there, her agent said.
-- after previously saying she had been denied the right to participate in the event -- but the invitation came too late for her to get there, her agent said.
Speaking to Reuters by phone on Friday, her agent Jukka Harkonen said the lateness of the invitation made it impossible for Semenya to travel to Rabat in time for the race, because it was a journey of more than 20 hours from her home country South Africa.Semenya became the centre of heated international debate after a controversial ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport .
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