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Pace and power: Caster Semenya won her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge whether her rights had been infringed in terms of requiring women with high testosterone to reduce those levels through drugs. (Olivier Morin/AFP)
2016 OLYMPICS

‘Caster Semenya is just like you and me; she deserves kindness, not vitriol’

‘Caster is made of dust just like you and me. Few others have endured the public scrutiny and undeserved humiliation she has,’ writes Andy Merrick.

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