Caster Semenya Takes Appeal To European Court Of Human Rights


Caster Semenya will appeal against World Athletics' rule restricting testosterone levels in female runners to the European Court of Human Rights.

The double Olympic 800m champion, 29, lost two previous appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) and Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court.

The rule means she cannot compete in events between 400m and a mile without taking testosterone-reducing drugs.

Athletics' governing body brought in a rule in 2019 that athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.

Athletes with DSD have higher levels of natural testosterone, which World Athletics believes gives them a competitive advantage.

Cas rejected Semenya's challenge against the rule last year, before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court also denied her appeal in September.

Source: BBC

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