Caster Semenya

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019 file photo, South Africa's runner Caster Semenya arrives for the first day of a hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Champion runner Caster Semenya has won what might turn out to be a landmark legal victory. The European Court of Human Rights has decided she was discriminated against by sports rules that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels if she wants to compete in major competitions. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Olympic champion Semenya says she is ‘elated’ after ruling in testosterone case but has ‘suffered’

Champion runner Caster Semenya says she is “elated” at the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in her favor in her legal battle against track and field rules that force her to suppress her natural testosterone to compete.
 
FILE - In this April 13, 2018, file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the woman's 800m final at Carrara Stadium during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Champion runner Caster Semenya has won what might turn out to be a landmark legal victory. The European Court of Human Rights has decided she was discriminated against by sports rules that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels if she wants to compete in major competitions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins human rights case but testosterone rules may remain for years

 
FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya is shown at the Diamond League athletics event in Doha, Qatar, May 3, 2019. The European Court of Human Rights is expected to deliver what could be the final word Tuesday in Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya's yearslong legal challenge against rules that force her and other female athletes to lower their natural hormone levels through medical intervention to be allowed to compete in women's track and field races. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Ruling expected Tuesday in runner Caster Semenya’s human rights appeal against sex eligibility rules

 
FILE - South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, March 23, 2023, while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze, File)

Track bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Semenya

 
FILE - Caster Semenya, of South Africa, competes during a heat in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on July 20, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. Semenya has won Olympic and world titles on the track over 800 meters but can't run that distance competitively now so she's taking on the World Cross-Country Championships on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Bathurst, a rural town about a three-hour drive west of Sydney. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Semenya, Coburn join XC regulars at world championships

 

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FILE - World Athletics President Sebastian Coe holds a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters, in Rome, Nov. 30, 2022. Track and field's governing body is facing renewed criticism for a proposal to allow transgender athletes to continue competing in top female events, although with stricter rules. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

World track body proposal: No ban on transgender athletes

 
Caster Semenya, of South Africa, competes during a heat in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Semenya finishes 13th, doesn’t advance in 5,000 at worlds

 
FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. USA, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Semenya was listed on Friday, July 8, 2022 to compete at next week's world championships in Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion and one of the most contentious athletes. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Caster Semenya is back, so is her sport’s thorniest problem

 
FILE - Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi celebrates winning the woman's 3000 meters at the Qatar Diamond League athletics meet in Doha, Qatar, May 13, 2022. Niyonsaba withdrew from the world championships Monday, July 11, 2022, with a foot injury, just when she looked to be a good bet for her first major medal in the 5,000 meters after being forced to switch to long-distance events by track and field's contentious testosterone rules. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

5000m contender Niyonsaba out of world champs with injury

 
FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. USA, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Semenya was listed on Friday, July 8, 2022 to compete at next week's world championships in Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion and one of the most contentious athletes. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

In big surprise, Semenya listed to run at worlds in Eugene

 
FILE - South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya (176) runs on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, April 15, 2021. A British newspaper has reported that double Olympic champion Semenya said she offered to show her body to track officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze/File)

Semenya says she offered to show track officials her body

 
FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, Calif. on June 30, 2019. The Olympic gold medalist is working on a book about her many triumphs as a runner and about her experiences as an intersex woman, including her battles to be eligible for competition because of her naturally high testosterone levels. "Silence All the Noise," which does not yet have a release date, was acquired by W.W. Norton & Company. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Caster Semenya working on memoir, ‘Silence All the Noise’

 
Christine Mboma, of Namibia, competes in a semifinal of the women's 200-meters at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Teenagers make 200 final in Olympic testosterone controversy

 
Caster Semenya reacts before the women's 5000 meter race in Regensburg, Saturday, June 19, 2021. The two-time 800-meter Olympic champion from South Africa once again missed out on qualifying for the Summer Games in Tokyo during her surprising start in Regensburg. (Stefan Puchner/dpa via AP)

Semenya misses Tokyo, may be forced out of Olympics for good

 

Namibia teenagers barred from Olympic 400 over testosterone

 
Caster Semenya reacts before the women's 5000 meter race in Regensburg, Saturday, June 19, 2021. The two-time 800-meter Olympic champion from South Africa once again missed out on qualifying for the Summer Games in Tokyo during her surprising start in Regensburg. (Stefan Puchner/dpa via AP)

Semenya fails to reach Olympic qualifying time for 5,000

 
FILE — In this Thursday, April 15, 2021 file photo South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, Olympic champion Semenya was sentenced to 50 hours of community service for speeding while driving in South Africa, prosecutors said Wednesday May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze/File)

Still too fast: Caster Semenya arrested for speeding

 
FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya waits for the start of the 800-meter semifinal race during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Caster Semenya finally lost her long legal battle Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, against track and field’s rules to limit female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court over testosterone rules

 
FILE - In this June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. Olympic champion Caster Semenya has run her first public race in eight months and says she will be back in top-level track despite currently being banned from competing in her favorite event. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Semenya switches to 200, still aiming to turn up in Tokyo

 
FILE - In this June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. Olympic champion Caster Semenya has run her first public race in eight months and says she will be back in top-level track despite currently being banned from competing in her favorite event. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Not done: Caster Semenya runs again, says ‘I’m here to stay’

 
FILE - In a Friday, May 3, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. On the 10th anniversary of Semenya blowing away the field in the 800 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she won't comply with the International Association of Athletics Federations' latest version of a regulation to lower her level of natural testosterone.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Defending champion Caster Semenya sidelined at worlds

 
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2019, file photo, Caster Semenya, left, current 800-meter Olympic gold medalist and world champion, and her lawyer Gregory Nott, right, arrive for the first day of a hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Semenya's lawyers say the Swiss supreme court has ordered track's governing body to suspend its testosterone regulations. The lawyers say Monday's, June 3, 2019, ruling allows Semenya to compete unrestricted in all female events. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Defiant Caster Semenya appeals testosterone ruling

 
South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, Friday, May 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreil...

‘Hell no:' Defiant Semenya wins, says she won’t take drugs

 
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 file photo Caster Semenya, the current 800-meter Olympic gold and world champion from South Africa, and the latest recipient of the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award, listens during an interview, in New York. Caster Semenya lost her appeal Wednesday May 1, 2019 against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Caster Semenya dealt another setback over testosterone rules

 

Semenya case: A clash over ensuring an even playing field

 
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 file photo Caster Semenya, the current 800-meter Olympic gold and world champion from South Africa, and the latest recipient of the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award, listens during an interview, in New York. Caster Semenya lost her appeal Wednesday May 1, 2019 against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Olympic runner Semenya loses fight over testosterone rules

 
FILE - In this Friday, April 13, 2018 file photo South Africa's Caster Semenya waits to compete in the woman's 800m final at Carrara Stadium during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Caster Semenya lost her appeal Wednesday May 1, 2019 against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

AP explains: the ruling against Olympian Caster Semenya

 
South Africa's runner Caster Semenya, current 800-meter Olympic gold medalist and world champion, arrives for the first day of her hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Semenya has filed an appeal in the CAS against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruling, forcing female runners to medicate to reduce their testosterone levels for six months before racing internationally. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Sports’ future in balance as Semenya-IAAF showdown opens

 

Caster Semenya’s appearance being questioned is an unfortunate, unnecessary painful ordeal