mardi 29 juin 2010
Semenya allowed to run again
The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) ruled on the case of South Africa's Caster Semenya, whose sexual gender was debated last year, and the athlete will make his comeback as a woman ahead Thursday local television.
Following tests on the gendered world champion at 800 meters, the IAAF has given the go-ahead for Semenya can be back at the women's competition, understands the ETV, quoting sources close to the folder. While a press conference Semenya and Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile was expected Thursday at 1300 GMT, neither the coach nor the entourage of Semenya minister had commented on this information.
"I can not comment before the Minister himself to do," said coach Michael Seme. "There is a decision on the subject, but at this stage, I can not say whether it is positive or negative, for his part said the spokesman for Sports Minister, Manase Makwela, told The Times. In a brief statement, the IAAF for its part said that "despite rumors in South Africa", the federation had provided "no final statement on Semenya" or press conference "in Rome and Africa South on this subject.
The procedure to determine the kind of sexual Semenya "has not yet been finalized, and thus remains confidential," insisted the IAAF, which will publish a statement, "once the process is complete. The IAAF decided last August, just before the finals of the 800m World 2009 in Berlin-dominated throughout by the South African, to name a panel to investigate sexual gender of the athlete , whose morphology seems very masculine. Semenya been waiting to know if she can continue to run
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