The South African biolympic has revealed: “It happened at the 2009 World Cup: the match officials said I had a penis and I told them I would show them my body if they didn’t believe me”
Biolympic Caster Semenya revealed that she told some match officials that she would consent to an examination of her body in order to prove she was a woman. The 800 champion also accused the IAAF of forcing her to take drugs that “tortured” her and made her fear she had a heart attack. This is what a report from the English newspaper Telegraph revealed, which took up part of an interview that the athlete gave to Hbo Real Sports, a US TV broadcast, which will be broadcast today in its full version.
2009 in berlin
–
Semenya said that at the World Championships in Berlin 2009, where she won by dominating the 800, some officials “probably thought I had a penis. I told him: ‘I don’t care, if you want I can show you my vagina’ – said the athlete – I drugs I had to take to lower my testosterone levels made me sick, gain weight, gave me panic attacks. It was like hurting yourself with a knife every day. But I had no alternative if I wanted to run. I was 18, I wanted to go to Olympic Games…”. Jonathan Taylor, a lawyer for the IAAF, spoke to HBO denying the allegations. “Jonathan should cut his tongue and throw it away” was Semenya’s reply.
May 24 – 00:47
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED