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Nine days after she won the women's 800-m world championship as an all but unknown in Berlin, Caster Semenya returned home to the plains of Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, to escape the uproar that had enveloped her since she'd crossed the finish line. Semenya, 18, finds herself as not only one of the world's best athletes but also among its most controversial, under investigation by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not for cheating or doping but for allegedly not being female. "Coach used to tell me there are many ways...
...women’s tennis team picked up right where it left off last season. The 2009 Ivy League champions posted impressive results this weekend at the 17th annual William and Mary Invitational, sending two players—sophomore Holly Cao and freshman Hideko Tachibana—to the championship match in Flight A Singles. “I’m really impressed with the way our team competed this weekend,” Crimson coach Traci Green said. “We’re a week and a half into school and our freshmen were terrific. They...
...IAAF spokesman Davies told the Associated Press on Friday that, whatever the test reveals, Semenya would probably keep her world championship medal. "Our legal advice is that if she proves to have an advantage because of the male hormones, then it will be extremely difficult to strip the medal off her, since she has not cheated," he said. "She was naturally made that way, and she was entered in Berlin by her team and accepted by the IAAF." (See pictures of South Africa...
...about whether he belongs. Never looking back after that fateful first game, he put together a stellar career at Bronxville, including a senior season in which he set school records with 44 regular-season and 15 postseason goals and led the Broncos to their first ever New York State championship. Rogers also excelled at a high level with the Albertson Soccer Club in Long Island, N.Y., one of the most elite club teams in the nation...
...South Africa Is She or Isn't She? It took just under two minutes for Caster Semenya to win gold in the women's 800-m race at the World Athletics Championship on Aug. 19, but it will be weeks before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether...