Semenya Gender Debacle Deepens

Caster Semanya's gender fiasco manages to get worse. E-mail correspondence found by the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian shows that her team doctor Harold Adams and athletics boss Leonard Chuene did indeed know that Semenya was tested in South Africa before the World Championships in Berlin but kept Semenya in the race even after they found out that her test results were "not good."

Semenya crossed the 800-meter finish line a full minute before her competitors. Her time, coupled with her supposed virile looks, prompted championship officials to order a gender test.

Allegedly, after arriving in Berlin on Aug. 9 with Semenya, Adams received a call from the Medforum Medi-Clinic, saying that Caster's gender test results were problematic. Adams supposedly instructed Chuene and other ASA officials to pull Semenya from the competition, but they refused.

This latest news from the Guardian is quite controversial, because Chuene originally insisted that Semenya had not been tested before Berlin. When evidence came out that she was tested, he insisted that he had no knowledge of it.

According to a Guardian source:

Mlangeni-Tsholetsane [ASA events manager] said they couldn't withdraw Semenya, because they needed a medal at all costs. Chuene didn't even bother to brief the athlete about the developments around the tests and the implications. They destroyed an innocent girl because of a medal.

By now, everyone knows that Semenya was reportedly found to be a hermaphrodite. The 18-year-old star is supposedly on suicide watch.

For more of the story, read 'Semenya Saga: Chuene's Trail of Lies.'

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