IAAF: Semenya still undergoing gender tests

MONACO — Gender tests on South African world champion Caster Semenya have not yet been completed, the IAAF said Wednesday. The International Association of Athletics Federations had been expected to announce its findings on Friday, but instead said it would not discuss her medical tests. “The IAAF will not comment upon the medical aspects of…

Semenya's lawyer says she was tricked into interview with British paper

LONDON — Caster Semenya’s lawyers say she was tricked into speaking to a reporter at The Guardian for a story in the British newspaper. The 18-year-old South African runner, who won the 800-meter world championship title in August but had her accomplishment overshadowed by gender-test revelations, was quoted throughout in excerpts Friday and the full…

IAAF: What makes a woman?

World track and field’s governing body will begin the process of agreeing the definition of a woman in an athletics context next week as it prepares to reveal the results of South African runner Caster Semenya’s gender tests. The IAAF’s medical commission, which begins meeting on Friday, could take a year to deliver that definition,…

IAAF meets to form gender definition

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world track and field’s governing body will start determining the definition of a woman in an athletics context next week as it prepares to reveal the results of South African runner Caster Semenya’s gender tests. IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss added Saturday that the organization’s medical commission…

Diack: South African co-operation needed over Semenya

Copenhagen – The ruling athletics body IAAF is still examining the results of Caster Semenya’s gender test and has called for co-operation from the 800 metres world champion’s home country of South Africa. ‘The case is still pending,’ IAAF president Lamine Diack told German Press Agency dpa on Sunday at the International Olympic Committee congress…

IAAF president wants to end Semenya saga

International Association of Athletics Federation president Lamine Diack wants to kiss and make up over the Caster Semenya saga and, if ANC MPs have anything to do with it, they want him to apologise to the nation in Parliament. A letter that Diack wrote to President Jacob Zuma in August about the Semenya controversy and…

Rights group takes up Semenya race issue

A civil rights organisation has laid a charge at the world’s governing body of athletics against the president of Athletics South Africa (ASA) for inciting racial polarisation over athlete Caster Semenya. Afriforum chief executive Kallie Kriel said he had laid a charge against Leonard Chuene at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). "Chuene’s polarising…