The two-time South African Olympic champion

Caster Semenya

sent a message of serenity and assured that "

a man can change the rules but that man cannot rule"

his life after the rejection, by the Swiss Justice, of his

appeal against the rules on testosterone levels.

"Peace of mind, people. A man can change the rules but that man cannot rule my life," said the athlete on her Twitter account, given the outrage generated in her country, where the athlete is very loved, by the news.

"What I'm saying is that

I may have failed against them

, (but) the truth is that I won this battle a long time ago. Review my achievements and you will understand. The doors may be closed, but not locked," he added on that social network .

Through a statement released hours before by the lawyers who are taking their case in Switzerland against the

International Athletics Federation

(World Athletics), the runner declared herself very "disappointed" by the court decision, but "refused to let World Athletics" "drug" or prevents you from being who you are.

"Excluding female athletes or endangering their health because of our natural abilities alone puts World Athletics on the wrong side of history. I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, both on and off the track, until we all can. run free as we were born, "Semenya stressed.

Chronology of the case

The Supreme Court of Switzerland on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of the South African athlete in her long conflict with the International Athletics Federation, thus maintaining the rule that women who like her have hyperandrogenism (high levels of testosterone) should take medication to compete in women's mid-distance events.

In May of last year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had already ruled in favor of World Athletics in this dispute, for which Semenya had appealed before the Swiss Justice, which although in June 2019 ordered the

temporary suspension of That rule

has finally been aligned with the doctrines of the federation.

In the opinion of the highest Swiss court, the CAS has the right to uphold the rules dictated by the international federation "to guarantee fair competition in certain disciplines of women's athletics."

The conflict of more than two years began in April 2018, when the highest body in world athletics announced a new regulation that required

female

athletes to

keep testosterone levels below 5 nanomoles

per liter for a continuous period of at

least

less six months to compete in events of between 400 meters and a mile (about 1,600 meters).

If they did not do so, athletes "

with dysfunctions in their sexual development

", as World Athletics describes them, had to change tests or compete as men.

Of the cases of athletes with hyperandrogenism, the South African Semenya, double Olympic champion and 800-meter world triple, is the best known.

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