Caster Semenya labels Olympic gender verification tests ‘a disrespect for women’

Semenya criticises IOC president Kirsty Coventry‘Her being a woman coming from Africa … it causes harm’South Africa’s Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800m champion, said on Sunday that the International Olympic Committee’s reinstatement of gender verification tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was “a disrespect for women”.The former hyperandrogenic athlete also expressed her disappointment that the measure was taken under the leadership of the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe. Continue reading...


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