Caster Semenya News
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Semenya will compete despite ongoing gender investigation
10:29 AM on 01/13/2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Semenya, who comes from a poor village in rural South Africa, first drew attention when she won the 800 title at the African junior championships last year...
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South African track star Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal
9:05 AM on 11/19/2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships...
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South African track star ready for university exams
12:09 PM on 10/16/2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A champion runner at the center of a gender controversy is set to take university final exams, her father said Friday, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatized to study...
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Stop hating on black female athletes
7:44 AM on 09/15/2009
OPINION - We need to stop putting black women in a box. They don't all belong in the socially dirty box, and they don't belong in the pure, sweet and innocent box.
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Track star's father outraged at hermaphrodite reports
2:55 PM on 09/11/2009
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Gender tests on running sensation Caster Semenya determined she has internal male sexual organs, Australian newspapers reported Friday, triggering new outrage from South Africa and her father...
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Race was never a factor in track star's gender query
6:20 PM on 09/10/2009
OPINION - Recent reports by the Daily Mail of London and the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia state that the test has revealed that Semenya "is a hermaphrodite with no womb or ovaries." Some have argued that Semenya was the target of the investigation because she is black...
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South African track star is a hermaphrodite, report says
5:10 PM on 09/10/2009
SYDNEY (AP) -- World 800-meter champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has male and female sexual organs, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday, posing an ethical and political quandary for athletics' ruling body...
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South African track star gets a makeover
6:54 PM on 09/08/2009
The BBC is reporting that Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose looks and performance have ignited a gender query by athletic officials, has gotten a make-over...
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Results from track star's gender test expected to return soon
11:28 AM on 09/08/2009
LONDON (AP) -- The results of Caster Semenya's gender tests are expected to arrive at the IAAF headquarters any day, and its unlikely the world 800-meter champion will...
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Racism is another hurdle in track star's gender dispute
8:47 AM on 08/31/2009
OPINON - There is a long-standing history of gender testing in international athletics of women from various backgrounds, but the hyper-visibility in Semenya's case emerges from a difficult racial history.
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