Cape Town ¨C South African Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800-meter?champion, said on Sunday that the IOC¡¯s reinstatement of gender verification tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was ¡°a disrespect for women.¡±
The former athlete also expressed her disappointment that the measure was taken under the leadership of the new International Olympic Committee?president, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe.
¡°For me, personally, for her being a woman coming from Africa, knowing how African women or women in the Global South are affected by that, of course, it causes harm,¡± Semenya said during a news conference in Cape Town on the sidelines of a sports competition.
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