WHILE the debate continues to rage on the controversy surrounding her gender, South African middle-distance star Caster Semenya is putting it all behind her and returns to action this weekend.
Semenya will compete in South Africa on Saturday for the first time since winning gold in the women’s 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin last month – just days after it was revealed the IAAF had conducted gender verification tests on her.While she won’t be gunning for victory this weekend, Semenya will turn out in the women’s 4km race at the South African Cross Country Championships in Pretoria. The short race has been dropped from the schedule at the World Cross Country Championships and Semenya’s coach, Michael Seme, said she was under no pressure to perform – the important thing is for her to forget the controversy and get back into training for next year’s track season. ‘We’re just trying to recover from everything, so she’s going to jog nicely on Saturday and then we’ll see where we go from there,’ Seme said. – SuperAthletics
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