P.T. Usha calls for a separate category for DSD athletes

Feels there are a few cases in the Indian circuit too

She is the fastest quartermiler this year and when Namibia’s Christine Mboma came up with that amazing 48.54s in a meet in Poland recently, many felt that the 18-year-old would be the favourite at the Tokyo Olympics. But the other day, World Athletics removed Mboma and another Namibia quartermiler Beatrice Masilingi, the world’s third fastest this year, from its Tokyo list. The Namibian National Olympic Committee also explained through a media release that the World Athletics’ rules pertaining to ‘Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development’ required the two to undergo medical tests and since they were found to have high testosterone levels they would not be eligible to compete in events ranging from the 400m to the mile. The two will now be running the 200m in Tokyo.