Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic champion at 800 meters from South Africa, won a temporary reprieve on Monday from testosterone regulations meant to apply to intersex athletes in certain track events. A final resolution of the case may not come for a year or more, with the Tokyo Summer Olympics set to begin in July 2020. Semenya, 28, won an interim appeal before a Swiss federal court, which ordered track and field’s world governing body to suspend the implementation of the rules governing permissible limits of testosterone for athletes competing in women’s events from 400 meters to the mile. Monday’s court decision freed Semenya, apparently at least until late June, to run her signature event, the 800, at which she has been unbeaten since 2015, without having to undergo hormone therapy. But a full appeal before the equivalent of the Swiss supreme court, known as the Swiss Federal Tribunal, could take a year or more, The Associated Press reported.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2019 18:13 UTC