Some women’s sporting dreams are being crushed by World Athletics’ rules on testosterone levels. Here's how these women are battling for acceptance.
s an ambitious, determined teenager, Annet Negesa urged her body to run faster, and her body, always loyal, obliged her.
She says he explained that the blood samples revealed levels of the hormone, testosterone, in her blood that IAAF considered too high and that at the recommendation of the athletics governing body, she would need to get further tests. “I woke up finding myself having cuts under my belly and really, I was asking myself, ‘What happened to me? What they did to me?’”
World Athletics told CNN it "had no involvement in Ms. Negesa’s treatment" and that CNN would "have to ask [the doctor in Kampala] to explain the reference in this letter." At a track in Berlin, in the shadow of the 1936 Olympic stadium, Negesa is still visibly stung by her experience. She tells CNN about feeling confused at the discovery that her body was different from what she understood it to be, and feeling powerless and completely unsupported as her life unraveled. “I was still a teenager, had no choice because I had a love of the sport ... and they knew all the consequences which would come out from them.
“I just wanted to run good so that I can feed them,” Imali says of her family: Her mother, two siblings, and two orphans she also provides care for. “I was so motivated.” Consistent with Negesa’s account, Imali says she was given little information about the procedures or their consequences. Referring to the hospital’s physicians, she says: “They did not tell me anything concerning my body. After we did every examination, they were just putting the results in the envelope. Then they take that envelope to Athletics Kenya."
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