CASTER SEMEYA AS OLYMPIC CHAMPION OFFERED TO SHOW HER PRIVATE PARTS TO OFFICIALS TO PROVED THAT SHE WAS FEMALE
Olympic champion Caster Semenya was willing to display her private parts to athletics officials to prove that she was female
Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya offered to show her v*gina to athletics officials when she was 18 to prove she was female.
The controversial South African middle-distance runner revealed this shocking information an interview with HBO’s Real Sports, which aired last night in the United States. Semenya, now 31, burst onto the scene in 2009 when she won the women’s 800m world title by a stunning margin hours after the sport’s world governing body said she would undergo gender verification tests.
Reuters reported that gender tests on Semenya reportedly showed the runner had no womb or ovaries but that she had internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone, and her levels of the hormone were three times that of a “normal” female.
Semenya has a condition known as hyperandrogenism, which is characterised by higher than usual levels of testosterone, a hormone that increases muscle mass and strength and the body’s ability to use oxygen, as per Times of India.
She took medicine after the first ruling in 2011 by World Athletics – then the International Association of Athletics Federations – that all female athletes with hyperandrogenism had to medically lower their testosterone levels
“It made me sick, made me gain weight, panic attacks, I don’t know if I was ever going to have a heart attack. It’s like stabbing yourself with a knife every day. But I had no choice. “I’m 18, I want to run, I want to make it to Olympics, that’s the only option for me.”
As report by Sports Brief, the superstar South African athlete is proving that she can be a champion across numerous distances as she now tackles the longer-distance events.
Semenya won the 3 000m event at Athletics South Africa’s Grand Prix in Cape Town, smashing her personal best time in the process.
