World track and fieldâs 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 Semenyaâs gender tests. The IAAFâs medical commission, which begins meeting on Friday, could take a year to deliver that definition,âŠ
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world track and fieldâs 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 Semenyaâs gender tests. IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss added Saturday that the organizationâs medical commissionâŠ
Copenhagen â The ruling athletics body IAAF is still examining the results of Caster Semenyaâs gender test and has called for co-operation from the 800 metres world championâs home country of South Africa. âThe case is still pending,â IAAF president Lamine Diack told German Press Agency dpa on Sunday at the International Olympic Committee congressâŠ
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 andâŠ
A civil rights organisation has laid a charge at the worldâs 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). "Chueneâs polarisingâŠ
In South Africa, an 18-year-old who was recently victorious at the world track and field championships in Berlin has come under heavy scrutiny. The International Amateur Athletic Federation asked that nationâs athletic federation to conduct a gender test on the young star, Caster Semenya, whose blistering time of 1:55.45 in the 800 meters bested theâŠ
