Caster Semenya News

Semenya will compete despite ongoing gender investigation

By theGrio

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...

South African track star Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal

By theGrio

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...

South African track star ready for university exams

By theGrio

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...

Stop hating on black female athletes

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

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.

Track star's father outraged at hermaphrodite reports

By theGrio via AP

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...

Race was never a factor in track star's gender query

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

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...

South African track star is a hermaphrodite, report says

By theGrio via AP

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...

South African track star gets a makeover

By theGrio

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...

Results from track star's gender test expected to return soon

By theGrio via AP

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...

Racism is another hurdle in track star's gender dispute

By Marlo David

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.

Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes

VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to "yes."...