Supporting Caster Semenya means more than embracing her as an athlete
The new rule, which will become active from November 1 this year, directly impacts South Africa’s double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya
The IAAF announced new rules would be put in place to ban female athletes from competing if their testosterone levels are deemed unnaturally high
A new study says higher testosterone levels give women athletes advantage
Calls for an independent global drug-testing agency are growing as it becomes clear many nations’ procedures fall well below expected standards.
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Olympic champion Sally Pearson fears the 2016 Rio Games will be tainted by drug cheats, as the sport faces explosive allegations of mass doping.
After three years of bannings, power struggles, suspensions and restructuring, Athletics South Africa is still a mess.
Athletics South Africa has appointed a seven-member ad hoc committee to run the sport for the next three months.
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/ 11 November 2011
London or Doha will be named 2017 world athletics championships hosts by the International Association of Athletics Federations on Friday.
Despite his trailblazing success at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, Oscar Pistorius knows he still has lots to prove to his critics.
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/ 4 September 2011
Despite the furore that surrounded the disqualification of Usain Bolt from the world 100m final, the IAAF refuses to change the false start rule.
After finishing eighth at the World Championships 400m, Oscar Pistorius admits he has a lot of work to do before next year’s London Olympic Games.
Oscar Pistorius will have to run the first leg of the 4 x 400m relay at the World Championships to "avoid danger to other athletes", says the IAAF.
With his final attempt, double amputee Oscar Pistorius has qualified for August’s world championships by smashing his 400m personal best
Oscar Pistorius has only 12 days left to get the all-important qualification time that would allow him to compete in the world championships.
The normally shy Caster Semenya opens up on life in the public eye and her goal of retaining her world title.
Caster Semenya has bucked the controversy over her gender and has now targeted a successful Diamond League campaign to defend her world 800m title.
Caster Semenya achieved a notable double by claiming the 800m and the 1 500m titles at the South African championships on Sunday.
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/ 19 November 2009
Caster Semenya faces another delay over her future after it was revealed on Wednesday that medical testing is still not complete.
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/ 12 September 2009
SA athletics officials met on Saturday to decide how to respond to the latest revelations surrounding the gender of world champion Caster Semenya.
The mayor of 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya’s home town was among the first at OR Tambo International Airport to welcome her home on Tuesday.
SA unions and political groups have criticised the IAAF following controversy around athlete Caster Semenya’s gender verification test.
An examination to verify the gender of champion sprinter Caster Semenya would involve multiple tests, a sports medicine doctor said on Thursday.
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/ 8 September 2008
Equipment used by Paralympians has seen remarkable improvements in recent years, enabling them to close the gap on their able-bodied counterparts.
Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, is cautious about the implications of ”blade runner” Oscar Pistorius’s successful appeal. Speaking at the athletics grand prix in Dakar, in his native Senegal, Diack said that it was important to monitor any changes to Pistorius’s prostheses.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal on Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration (CAS) for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will learn in two weeks whether a ban on him competing at the Beijing Olympics will be overturned, his manager said on Friday. Pistorius (21), who runs with carbon-fibre blades attached to both legs below the knees, took the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport this week.
South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius should know within three weeks if he can compete at the Beijing Olympics, an official for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Wednesday. ”We have been asked to deliver a decision as soon as possible,” CAS secretary general Mathieu Reeb said on the last day of Pistorius’s two-day hearing.
Appeals by South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this month and next, the Lausanne-based court said. Pistorius’s hearing will take place on April 29 and 30 and Gatlin’s will follow on May 28 and 29, CAS said.
With just four months to go before the Beijing Olympics only eight South African track and field athletes have achieved qualifying times. Athletics South Africa says there is nothing to worry about. This is despite the fact that South Africa won no medals at the last two International Association of Athletics Federations world championships in Finland and Japan.
Running on a track filled with stones, while simultaneously ducking footballs and learner drivers, are some of the daily challenges the sensational middle-distance runners, Lebogang and Lebo Phalula, face in their bid for the 2008 Beijing Olympics this August.
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/ 14 February 2008
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has asked world sport’s highest court to overturn a ruling that he is ineligible to compete in the Olympics. The International Association of Athletics Federations ruled last month that the South African cannot participate in the Beijing Games because his prosthetics give him a clear competitive advantage.