South Africa plans to appeal ruling against Olympic champion Caster Semenya
Semenya's case has provoked a furious debate across sport worldwide about gender and"hyperandrogenic" athletes, those with"differences of sexual development".
Semenya's case has provoked a furious debate across sport worldwide about gender and "hyperandrogenic" athletes, those with "differences of sexual development" . Mhaga said the appeal, to be lodged at the Switzerland Federal Tribunal, would be based on complaints about the judges' past record on similar cases, lack of clarity over how the ruling could be implemented and how the evidence was handled."We feel that the scientific information that has been brought has been actually completely ignored and we've got a belief that a different court will arrive at a different determination.
Asked if she intended to take hormone-suppressing treatment, the three-time world champion said: "No way. The World Medical Association has urged doctors not to enforce the controversial new rules, warning that attempts to do so would breach ethics codes.
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