Double Olympic 800 meters champion Caster Semenya failed in her latest bid to qualify for this year’s Tokyo Games, finishing well outside the qualifying mark for the 5000m.
The 30-year-old South African is banned from competing in any race from 400m to a mile after the sport’s governing body World Athletics ruled in 2018 “to ensure fair competition” that women with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce them to compete in middle-distance races.
Semenya, who refuses to take medication to alter her testosterone levels, has been left with the 5000m as her best chance to go to the Tokyo Games, but a bid to finish inside the qualifying mark of 15:10.00 failed at a meeting in Durban on Friday that was specially arranged to offer her an opportunity. Read More
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