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Caster Semenya does not want to give up his long legal battle after the landmark federal court ruling.
Will continue to rebel
Caster Semenya.
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“I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, on and off the track, until we can all run as freely as we were born,” Caster Semenya said in a statement.
The federal court had issued a ruling Tuesday night, according to which the South African’s complaint was rejected. The 29-year-old had taken action against a ruling of the International Court of Sports of the CAS. At the center of the legal dispute was a controversial World Federation of Athletics rule about the testosterone limit for middle-distance runners with intersex abilities.
Semenya, a two-time 800-meter Olympic champion, left open the question whether she would still try to file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
His lawyer Dorothee Schramm said: “This decision is a call to action – as a society we cannot allow a sports association to override fundamental human rights.”
Semenya refuses medication
The rule calls for Semenya to reduce her natural testosterone value through medication, which the three-time world champion rejects.
For the association, however, Semenya is one of the “biologically male athletes with female gender identities.” Therefore, it is not allowed to participate in competitions for distances between 400 meters and one mile.
