{"id":9333,"date":"2019-05-01T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:52:39","slug":"no-more-man-power-semenya-loses-appeal-on-testosterone-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/no-more-man-power-semenya-loses-appeal-on-testosterone-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"NO MORE MAN-POWER! Semenya Loses Appeal On Testosterone Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics&#8217; governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African&#8217;s challenge against the IAAF&#8217;s new rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Cas said it had &#8220;serious concerns as to the future practical application&#8221; of the regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Semenya, 28, had said the rules were &#8220;unfair&#8221; and that she wanted to &#8220;run naturally, the way I was born&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion at 800m &#8211; and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) &#8211; must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory &#8211; but that the discrimination was &#8220;necessary, reasonable and proportionate&#8221; to protect &#8220;the integrity of female athletics&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;<\/li><li>Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;<\/li><li>The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Semenya would still be eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics&#8217; governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African&#8217;s challenge against the IAAF&#8217;s new rules. But Cas said it had &#8220;serious concerns as to the future practical application&#8221; of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,102],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-sports","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}