The Court of Sports Arbitration (TAS) abandons Caster Semenya to his fate before an International Athletics Federation (IAAF) that wants to be meditated to be less her, to reduce the testosterone she was born with, and the cameras focus on her, and He wears a suit and denounces the outrage, but far, out of the spotlight, other athletes are affected by the decision. And they cannot afford to do as the 800-meter Olympic champion, leave everything, and make their absence a claim. They need to run for a living. And for that they change distance.
In another nonsense, the 'anti-Semenya' 'only' law affects the distances between 400 and 1,500 meters and, therefore, the preferred option of athletes with hyperandrogenism is to go down to 200 meters and try to stand out. They were expected to start appearing at a time, at least at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but they are already here: the Nigerian -de Niger- Aminatou Seyni , a 400-meter specialist, won this Monday in his 200-meter series and threatens to get on the podium next Wednesday. His departure was really slow, but on the straight he exhibited power for a brand (22.58 seconds) that places it next to the distance favorites, the British Dina Asher Smith or the Jamaican Elaine Thompson .
"My manager and the IAAF are in talks, but yes, they forbade me to participate in the 400 meters of this World Cup," said Seyni in the mixed zone, when asked why he had passed 200 meters: "I am obligated. it is due to the new IAAF rule for the Caster Semenya case. If it could, it would run 400 ".
Like Semenya herself, Seyni refuses to undergo medical treatment to reduce her testostorena and awaits the protection of the courts. The new regulations were denounced by Semenya, absent in this Doha World Cup, and the Supreme Court of Switzerland - where the IAAF headquarters are located - must rule on his appeal after the TAS ruling, which ruled in favor of the IAAF on 3 of June.
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