LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Caster Semenya arrived at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday for a hearing in a landmark case that will challenge science and gender politics. The scheduled five-day appeal case is among the longest ever heard by the sports court. Semenya wants to overturn those rules. “The core value for the IAAF is the empowerment of girls and women through athletics,” Coe said. Reeb said the case was “unusual and unprecedented” and said the decision “will be important.”Norman Arendse, a lawyer for Semenya, called it “a highly confidential process.”——More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP–Sports

Source: National Post February 18, 2019 09:57 UTC