Back in May, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland ruled in favour of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to compel hyperandrogenic athletes or those with differences of sexual development (DSD) to lower their testosterone levels if they wished to compete as women.
The judgment was that female athlete such as Semenya must take testosterone suppressants like the contraceptive pill to stay under the permitted level to continue competing as a woman in any running event between the 400m and the mile. But the South African will now be allowed to compete without medication to limit her testosterone levels in 400m to 1500m races after she appealed successfully against the controversial IAAF change.
