The next chapter in the prolonged battle to secure the professional future of Caster Semenya is about to be written
Sports minister urges South Africans to support Caster Semenya against ‘discriminatory’ rules
Presidents from Athletics South Africa and the IAAF met to discuss their positions on the latter’s new eligibility regulations
The new rule, which will become active from November 1 this year, directly impacts South Africa’s double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya
She seems a shoo-in to clinch the 800m gold in Rio. But the only certainty is yet more controversy.
President Jacob Zuma says SA has lost a true hero and disciplined athlete in Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, who died in a car crash on Friday.
Financially crippled ASA has been asked to reassess the team selected for the African Championships, less than two weeks before the event.
Instead of starting afresh with this weekend’s leadership elections, most of the candidates put forward have a tarnished history. Denial is rife.
After three years of bannings, power struggles, suspensions and restructuring, Athletics South Africa is still a mess.
An ASA palace coup finds itself on the wrong side of the IAAF and with no local sports authorities rushing out to support it.
A doyenne of South African athletics is caught up in a David and Goliath battle over the ASA’s 2009 Caster Semenya debacle.
Despite efforts by Athletics SA to obtain an exemption, Caster Semenya will not be part of a 27-member team at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.
Sascoc’s decision to suspend ASA is all about positions and egos, angry sportspeople claim.
South Africa’s athletes will attend the world championships in Moscow, despite the country’s Olympic committee cutting ties with Athletics SA.
The country’s elite athletes will be affected most, says ASA president James Evans after the federation was suspended from the Olympic movement.
Athletics South Africa has been placed under administration for the second time in less than four years, Sascoc has said.
South Africa must appoint a national coach and develop grassroots performance if we hope to compete internationally, writes Richard Mayer.
Newly elected vice-president of ASA, Hendrick Ramaala, says he hopes to grow athletics to match and outplay major sports such as rugby and cricket.
Sprinter Simon Magakwe has equalled the 24-year-old national men’s 100 metres record at the SA Student Athletics Championships in Johannesburg.
Caster Semenya’s future could become clearer on Thursday when she holds a news conference to discuss the "outcomes" of her gender dispute.
