Caster Semenya condemns gender ‘stigma’ that still haunts Olympics, a decade after her first Olympic gold
CNN
For two-time Olympic track and field champion Caster Semenya, Paris 2024’s boxing was unusually poignant.
For two-time Olympic track and field champion Caster Semenya, Paris 2024’s boxing was unusually poignant. Watching Algerian fighter Imane Khelif weather a firestorm of abuse over allegations about her gender, she couldn’t help think back to the similar trials she suffered from her teenage years in sport. “Is there anyone out there who’s, you know, besides them? While I was alone, I had to figure it out myself,” the South African told CNN. “It’s quite emotional.” Paris 2024 has been a story with a happy ending for Khelif. She took light welterweight gold on Friday night, besting her Chinese opponent in a dominant performance. It was a redemption of sorts. But her Olympics have been marred by allegations over her gender, citing a 2023 decision by a now-discredited boxing regulator to bar her from a women’s tournament. “As people, we tend to forget that we cannot control nature,” said Semenya, who missed out on a chance at a third Olympic gold over 2019 rules enforcing testosterone levels in women athletes. Semenya had the regulations overturned last year in the European Court of Human Rights.
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