![]() ![]() Semenya smiles before competing in the women's 200 meter during the Athletics Gauteng North Championships in Pretoria on March 13, 2020. In a tweet announcing her latest appeal, Semenya wrote, "All we ask is to be able to run free as the strong and fearless women we are!!" This year, she launched a new appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which has not yet ruled on the case. Her subsequent appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal also failed. Ultimately, Semenya took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled against her in 2019, judging that the testosterone regulations were "necessary, reasonable and proportionate" to " the integrity of female athletics." The battle over her eligibility, along with that of other athletes', has been waged ever since. Her blistering speed and physique raised suspicions, and afterward, she was required to take a sex verification test. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was just 18 when she blew away the field to win her first world championship in the 800 meters in Berlin. Semenya, 30, was raised female, identifies as female and is legally female. "No freakin' way!" she told an interviewer on South African television. Under World Athletics' regulations, to compete in the restricted events, the affected DSD, or intersex, athletes are now required to lower their testosterone levels with birth control pills, hormone shots or surgery. Semenya has been in a long legal battle to "run free" ![]()
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