Track News

Ex-track star Marion Jones wants to play in WNBA

By theGrio

11:41 AM on 12/01/2009

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Disgraced track star Marion Jones is training for a comeback -- in the WNBA...

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...

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...

More drama from the running world

By theGrio

12:32 PM on 08/21/2009

MVP track club of Kingston takes another gold medal at the IAAF world track and field championships in Berlin! We need your help! Click here to sign up with a group that allows you to have a voice in the design of online and broadcast media. Then tell us how...

Track star's father: 'She is a woman and I can repeat it a million times'

By theGrio via AP

9:40 AM on 08/20/2009

BERLIN (AP) -- A day after winning her first 800-meter world title amid a gender-test controversy, the father of a South African teenager dismissed speculation his daughter is not a woman.

Track star tested to see if she is really a woman

By theGrio via AP

6:14 PM on 08/19/2009

BERLIN (AP) -- Facing questions about her gender, South African teenager Caster Semenya easily won the 800-meter gold medal Wednesday...

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."...