Cape Town – South African Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800-meter champion, said on Sunday that the IOC’s reinstatement of gender verification tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was “a disrespect for women.”
The former athlete also expressed her disappointment that the measure was taken under the leadership of the new International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe.
“For me, personally, for her being a woman coming from Africa, knowing how African women or women in the Global South are affected by that, of course, it causes harm,” Semenya said during a news conference in Cape Town on the sidelines of a sports competition.
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