International Association of Athletics Federations

USA Today: “IOC, IAAF to issue guidelines on gender cases”

20 November 2010

INTERNATIONAL sports officials are completing guidelines on how to deal with athletes with ambiguous sexual characteristics. Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC’s medical commission, said Friday that rules on gender determination will be issued soon to help resolve an issue that gained global attention with the dispute involving South African runner Caster Semenya. Ljungqvist said [...]

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Alice Dreger at ESPN: “Sports need gender policies”

11 October 2010

CASTER Semenya’s life changed because of eight seconds. It took 11 months before she could start to piece it back together. In August 2009, the South African runner won the 800-meter world championship in 1:55:45. Immediately following the race, Semenya was forced to skip the postrace news conference and ushered out of the stadium. A [...]

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The Daily Telegraph: “Caster’s rivals are running on empty”

25 August 2010

BUT matters became decidedly uncomfortable for Semenya when she ran 1:59.90, her first time under two minutes in the third race of her comeback after being sidelined for 11 months by the IAAF, which investigated results of her sex test and her high levels of the banned masculinising hormone testosterone. “Unfortunately for Caster, she’s grown [...]

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The Guardian: “Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo”

16 July 2010

A young athlete who last year won a gold medal in the women’s 800m at the World Championships in Berlin before her career was thrown into limbo when questions were asked about her sex, last night made a triumphant return to the track after an enforced 11-month absence. Caster Semenya made her long-awaited return at [...]

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[Opinion] Jo Proctor: Caster Semenya, post-mortem of a debacle

14 July 2010

Author: Jo Proctor, board member, OII Australia IF the International Amateur Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) terse three sentence statement, issued on the sixth of July, is anything to go by, the organization is determined to close down any further discussion of the Caster Semenya debacle.

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OpposingViews: What Qualifies an Athlete to be Eligible as a “Woman”?

8 June 2010

I think the whole “level playing field” argument is bogus myself. Why are our undies in such a bunch about women who are intersex and transgender women competing with other women when we don’t even think twice about many other kinds of competitive advantages that some athletes enjoy. Other genetic conditions confer advantage too, but [...]

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TimesLive: Caster ‘a victim of image management’

18 May 2010

“AS many as eight intersex women may have been expelled from athletics in the past and I gather that they were warned that if they made a fuss, they would be exposed. So it seems it’s not about athletic advantage, it’s about keeping the Olympics free of unwanted complications. It sends the message that women [...]

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Couriermail.com.au: “Caster Semenya set to release gender test results”

15 April 2010

WORLD 800 metre champion Caster Semenya is likely to release the results of her gender tests herself, according to an Athletics South Africa official.

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OpposingViews: “Let Caster Semenya Run!”

5 April 2010

DESPITE all of this, they still won’t let her race. Let’s allow, for a moment, that the news of Semenya’s intersexuality is true. That like millions of people in the world – and at least 1 in 2,000 in the United States – she has ambiguous internal sex organs and/or a perfectly common chromosomal variation. [...]

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The Science of Sport: “Caster Semenya set for return”

2 April 2010

“I hereby publicly announce my return to athletics competitions” – Caster Semenya The above quote is attributed to Caster Semenya, South Africa’s 800m world champion from Berlin last year, and the athlete who, for all the wrong reasons, dominated the world scene towards the end of 2009.  Her story, and the web of lying, corruption, [...]

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Der Tagesspiegel: Semenya case: “It’s already caused too much trouble”

30 March 2010

STILL, the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF has made no decision as to whether the South African Caster Semenya will be allowed to run despite male characteristics. IAAF Council member Helmut Digel talks about communication problems, rules, and the role of the IOC.

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Gina Wilson: Sexism is the Issue with the IOC

5 March 2010

THE issue with the IOC – International Olympic Committee – is sexism and every woman should be outraged. Why? Physical advantage Every gold medallist since the beginning of the modern Olympics, and most likely those in the old Olympics has a physical advantage over his competitors. The underlying prejudice in the current situation is that [...]

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