FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18,2019 file photo, South Africa's runner Caster Semenya, current 800-meter Olympic gold medalist and world champion, arrives for the first day of her hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Caster Semenya will find out Wednesday, May 1, 2019 if she has won her appeal against IAAF rules to curb female runners' high natural levels of testosterone.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport's panel of three judges gave a complex verdict and"dismissed both requests for arbitration" from Semenya and the governing body of track and field. "I know that the IAAF's regulations have always targeted me specifically," the South African runner said in a statement released by her lawyers."For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of the CAS will not hold me back. I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.
That is a"special transitional provision" because the IAAF rules require women to lower their testosterone levels below 5 nanomoles per liter of blood for at least six consecutive months to be eligible for top-level events. That could give Semenya a route to compete at the world championships without taking medication, such as birth control pills.
Wednesday's verdict followed a five-day hearing in February that was among the longest in the court's 35-year history. Semenya spent the week in Lausanne attending sessions, and IAAF president Sebastian Coe was at court on the opening day.
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