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FILE - South Africa athlete Caster Semenya, center, answers reporters with lawyers Gregory Nott, left, and Shona Jolly KC after Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on in her seven-year legal fight against track and field's sex eligibility rules, Thursday, July 10, 2025 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Antonin Utz, File)

Semenya criticizes IOC chief Coventry after transgender athletes barred

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IOC President Kirsty Coventry speaks during the Olympic opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (Yves Herman/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Aug. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) **FILE**

Caster Semenya’s sex eligibility battle has confounded sports for 16 years and still isn’t over

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Aug. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) **FILE**

Semenya sex eligibility battle still isn’t over after confounding sports for 16 years

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South Africa's Caster Semenya, center, answers reporters with lawyers Gregory Nott, left, and Shona Jolly KC after Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on in her seven-year legal fight against track and field's sex eligibility rules, Thursday, July 10, 2025 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Antonin Utz)

Human rights court rules Olympic champ Semenya did not get a fair hearing in sex eligibility case

By Graham Dunbar and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif., June 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Upcoming ruling in Caster Semenya case could reignite fight over sex eligibility in sports

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019 file photo, South Africa's runner Caster Semenya arrives for the first day of a hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Champion runner Caster Semenya has won what might turn out to be a landmark legal victory. The European Court of Human Rights has decided she was discriminated against by sports rules that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels if she wants to compete in major competitions. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Olympic champion Semenya says she is ‘elated’ after ruling in testosterone case but has ‘suffered’

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Caster Semenya, of South Africa, competes during a heat in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on July 20, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon. The European Court of Human Rights is expected to deliver what could be the final word Tuesday in Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya's yearslong legal challenge against rules that force her and other female athletes to lower their natural hormone levels through medical intervention to be allowed to compete in women's track and field races. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins human rights case, but testosterone rules may remain for years

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - South Africa's Caster Semenya is shown at the Diamond League athletics event in Doha, Qatar, May 3, 2019. The European Court of Human Rights is expected to deliver what could be the final word Tuesday in Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya's yearslong legal challenge against rules that force her and other female athletes to lower their natural hormone levels through medical intervention to be allowed to compete in women's track and field races. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Ruling expected Tuesday in runner Caster Semenya’s human rights appeal against sex eligibility rules

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Brazil's Rafaelle, left, and Zambia's Babra Banda battle for the ball during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A player’s mistreatment exposes flawed sex eligibility rules used by FIFA at Women’s World Cup

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Christine Mboma, of Namibia, competes in a semifinal of the women's 200-meters at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Teenagers make 200 final in Olympic testosterone controversy

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. USA. Caster Semenya's lawyer said Tuesday Nov. 17, 2020, they will take her case against the world track and field federation to the European Court of Human Rights in what's likely to be a last-ditch legal challenge against regulations that require the South African and some other female athletes to artificially lower their natural testosterone levels to compete. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Semenya taking case to European Court of Human Rights

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya is shown during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Caster Semenya finally lost her long legal battle Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, against track and field’s rules to limit female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court over testosterone rules

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya crosses the line to win the gold in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Olympic champion Caster Semenya has run her first public race in eight months and says she will be back in top-level track despite currently being banned from competing in her favorite event. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Semenya switches to 200, still aiming to turn up in Tokyo

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Not done: Caster Semenya runs again, says ‘I’m here to stay’

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif.. Caster Semenya has signed for a South African soccer club and may be considering giving up track and field, it was announced Friday, Sept. 6. The Olympic 800-meter champion is currently in a legal battle with the IAAF over her right to compete without taking testosterone-suppressing medication. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)

Analysis: Caster Semenya may finally have had enough

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif.. Caster Semenya has signed for a South African soccer club and may be considering giving up track and field. The Olympic 800-meter champion, who is currently in a legal battle with the IAAF over her right to compete without taking testosterone-suppressing medication, said she has joined women's club JVW FC. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Quitting track? Semenya signs for South African soccer team

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 3, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya crosses the line to win the gold in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Caster Semenya won’t defend her title in the 800 meters at the world championships this fall after a Swiss court overturned a temporary ruling that allowed her to run without taking testosterone-suppressing drugs to compete in international events. Tuesday, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File) **FILE**

Caster Semenya won’t defend 800 world title after court setback

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FILE - In this May 3, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Court documents released publicly for the first time this week reveal previously hidden details of Caster Semenya's 10-year battle with the international track body. In them, the two-time Olympic 800-meter champion said the IAAF accused her of intentionally running slowly at times to mask the alleged advantage she has from her elevated natural testosterone. She angrily denied the accusation. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Documents reveal new details in bitter Semenya-IAAF battle

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 13, 2018 file photo, Women's 800m silver medal winner Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui, left, shakes hands with gold medla winner South Africa's Caster Semenya on the podium at Carrara Stadium during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Margaret Nyairera Wambui has criticized the IAAF’s testosterone regulations and is refusing to take hormone-reducing medication. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) **FILE**

Defiant Caster Semenya appeals testosterone ruling

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press