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A Ruling This Week in the Caster Semenya Case Could
STRASBOURG, FRANCE, JUL 9 – The court's decision could end Semenya's legal fight or reshape global sports rules on testosterone limits affecting female athletes with differences in sexual development.
- A top European court in Strasbourg will on Thursday deliver its verdict after nearly two years of deliberation by its 17 judges on Semenya's case.
- The 2018 DSD regulations mandated athletes with differences in sexual development to suppress testosterone, so Semenya refused treatment and was barred from her preferred 800 m.
- In 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the regulations and Swiss courts affirmed in 2020, while the European Court of Human Rights in 2023 found discrimination but did not overturn the rules.
- Should judges side with her, the case would return to Swiss courts for further review, potentially prolonging the dispute without immediate changes to her eligibility.
- A global shift in sports regulations might, without attribution, influence policies beyond track and field in sports like swimming and other international competitions.
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The RecordWhy the Caster Semenya sex eligibility battle confounded sports for 16 years and still isn’t over
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the most complex current issues in sports can be traced back to a track meet in Germany in 2009, when an unknown 18-year-old from South Africa blew away a field of the…
The 34-year-old athlete, a double Olympic champion (2012, 2016), has been excluded from international competitions since 2018 due to an excessive production of male hormones.
Olympic winner Caster Semenya was excluded from competitions because of a high testosterone level. The European Court of Justice only partially justified her.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled in the case of South African athlete Caster Semenya, who opposed the International Association of Athletics Federations' regulations on the forced lowering of testosterone levels.
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