Play Nice Caster Semenya - To Rio and Controversy

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“On Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South african athletics championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.
It was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.”
:think:
 
TheGreatBambino said:
“On Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South african athletics championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.
It was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.”
:think:
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Having seen her live a couple of times, her body shape is so drastically different to the other athletes in her event.
 

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Hamingja said:
Why would you just not apply it to all events if you were going to do it.
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Because the science (which is filmsy at best) didn't hold up in court when an Indian sprinter (Dutee Chand) challenged similar rules.

She's also intersex, but because her condition is different to Semenya's (I believe she's genetically male (referred to as 46XY) but has a testosterone insensitivity disorder so returns high testosterone tests but her body can't use it, hence why she appears female), she proved that her high testosterone results don't result in better results.

It seems that this time, the 3 judges for CAS decided that they didn't really care that the science wouldn't really hold, and that the discrimination of a small number of DSD (disorders of sexual differentiation) athletes for the benefit of a larger number of "normal" ones was justified
 
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