The most recent news regarding the controversy of Caster Semenya still goes on. The International Association of Athletics Federation has not come to a conclusion whether to strip Semenya of her medal, or to allow her to compete in future races. As of November 20th, there have been numerous meetings to make a deal regarding Semenya’s earnings from the August race and gold medal title.
A big dilemma they Federation ran into was prior to the race. Semenya had a gender test, but the South Africa Federation President, Leonard Chuene lied about his knowledge that she has a test. The Federation is now investigating whether or not this would have affected her entering the race if they had known this information. Chuene has since been suspended from the Federation.
The Association as a whole is now looking over the rules and procedures, and analyzing whether this is an ethical, legal, or medical issue that needs to be dealt with. The most prominent answer from the board is that all three issues are related. Since this hasn’t been a problem in the past, they are reviewing whether the rules need to be modified on order to adapt to the upcoming dilemmas in regards to gender amongst male and females. It is reported that the rules could change depending on the ruling of Caster Semenya’s case.
--Lexi Burchmore
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