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Reuters 2 minute read South African athlete Caster Semenya speaks with journalists after she raced for the first time after her ban due to elevated testosterone levels at a small meeting in Montreuil, near Paris, France, June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya failed in her latest bid to qualify for this year's Tokyo Games, finishing well outside the qualifying mark for the 5,000m at the Olympics. The 30-year-old South African is banned from competing in any race from 400m to a mile after the sport's governing World Athletics ruled ...

DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya failed in her latest bid to qualify for this year's Tokyo Games, fi...

Semenya Bids for 5,000 Meters Slot at Tokyo Olympics CAPE TOWN—Caster Semenya, denied an opportunity to win a third successive Olympic 800 meters gold, will on Friday attempt to qualify for the Tokyo Games over 5,000 meters. Semenya will run in a meeting in Durban where she must dramatically improve her personal best over the distance to be able to go to the Olympics in two month’s time. The 30-year-old South African is banned from competing in any race from 400 meters to a mile after World Athletics ruled in 2018 that in order to ensure fair competition women with high natural testostero...

By Syndicated Content By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Caster Semenya, denied an opportunity to win a third successive Olympic 800 metres gold, will on Friday attempt to qualify for the Tokyo Games over 5000m. Semenya will run in a meeting in Durban where she must dramatically improve her personal best over the distance to be able to go to the Olympics in two month’s time. The 30-year-old South African is banned from competing in any race from 400m to a mile after World Athletics ruled in 2018 that in order to ensure fair competition women with high natural testosterone l...

Bernadette Wicks If Semenya was to be found guilty and end up with a criminal record, it would throw a spanner in the works of any plans she had to, for example, travel overseas to compete. Athlete Caster Semenya. Picture: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images Speed might be two-time Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya’s ally on the track but, it appears, not so on the road. Semenya appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Thursday last week, to answer to charges...