South African 800m runner, Caster Semenya won the Olympic 2016 gold and the other women in the field have cried out that it was hard competing against her.
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Following the controversy, she did an interview with YOU magazine and said: “God made me the way I am and I accept myself”.
She has three sisters and one brother and started running while training for soccer.
But higher levels of testosterone, which occur naturally in many people because of a condition called hyperandrogenism, may not offer more of benefit than say, good coaching, or long legs or training in a high altitude, reports the Times, pointing out that “all Olympians have some exceptional traits”.
Violet was at the airport in Jo’burg to welcome home her “husband” when she touched.
Despite Semenya facing those restrictions, she still won silver in 2011 and 2012 at the London Olympics.
The two lovebirds drove away for merrymaking after mingling with fans at the airport.
In 2010, the International Association of Athletics Federations had Semenya sidelined while she underwent gender testing.
As a gold medallist Semenya also received a specially struck a medal from the South African Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula amidst the airport celebrations.
“The field was fantastic and full of great runners and the best that you can be is to be in control and pace yourself better and visualise how you can do better”. “So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun”.
Semenya wins her first Olympic title, with her victory coming two hours after IAAF President Sebastian Coe, who was at the Olympic Stadium, says the worldwide athletics body will go back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in an attempt to have the testosterone-limiting rules reinstated.
Semenya’s breakthrough world title seven years ago pushed the IAAF to introduce rules limiting testosterone in female athletes. I enjoyed London but I wasn’t really proud of that moment as my Olympic moment. “I had no idea who or what was there until I’d done with the last hurdle and, at that point, the race was over”.
Earlier this year she set a new personal best of 1min 55.33secs, the fastest time in the world since 2008, and she bettered that in Rio by 0.05s.
The South African only moved up one spot from 12th to 11th on the world all-time list, and is more than a second off Kenyan athlete Pamela Jelimo’s continental record of 1:54.01.
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It’s been a tough week for the athlete, who’s found herself under global scrutiny – as is the case every time she competes on this level.
