APDouble Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was 18 to prove she was female, the South African middle-distance runner said in an interview with HBO's Real Sports that will air on Tuesday. "They thought I had a dick, probably, Semenya said in the HBO Real Sports interview that will air at 10:00 p.m. She took medication after the first ruling in 2011 by World Athletics - then the International Association of Athletics Federations - that all female athletes with hyperandrogenism had to medically lower their testosterone levels. "It made me sick, made me gain weight, panic attacks, I don't know if I was ever going to have a heart attack," Semenya told HBO Real Sports. In 2020, Semenya lost her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal to set aside a 2019 Court of Arbitration ruling that female athletes with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce it.

Source: Standard Digital May 25, 2022 00:32 UTC