Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The case of South African runner Caster Semenya will not be discussed at this week's IAAF Council pending completion of tests on the athlete, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Wednesday.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has issued a formal apology to women's 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya for their handling of her gender verification tests.
South Africa reacted angrily on Friday to a report that tests on its world champion runner Caster Semenya had found she was a hermaphrodite, threatening a "third world war" over the affair. Athletics' governing body declined to confirm the report in Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said the 18-year-old runner had both male and female sexual characteristics.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Caster Semenya put aside the controversy over a planned rule change in athletics regarding hyperandrogenism to win the women's 1,500 metres
South African world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya's return to competitive athletics should be announced in less than a month, SAPA news agency reported on Thursday.
The head of South Africa's athletics body confirmed on Saturday that runner Caster Semenya was subjected to gender tests before her world championship victory and said he had lied about the tests to protect her privacy.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Hot favourite Caster Semenya qualified for the women's 800metres semi-finals at the Rio Olympics with supreme ease on Wednesday and will no doubt be braced for another wave of discussions about her gender should she go on to take the gold medal on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
South Africa's ruling ANC said on Sunday it was "disgusted" by the way international and South African athletics bodies had handled the case of world champion runner Caster Semenya, who is undergoing gender tests.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions.
Pendulum swings towards tighter measures against transgender athletes
Semenya has vowed to fight the regulations, but has already lost an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and another subsequent plea to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) asking for the CAS ruling to be set aside.
Sebastian Coe, the head of World athletics and twice Olympic champion over the distance, described the women's World 1,500 metres final won by Kenyan Faith Kipyegon on Monday as one of the best races he has ever seen.
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has installed a special strength-building German machine for the use of the country's elite javelin throwers like Olympic-bound Neeraj Chopa and Shivpal Singh at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports in Patiala.
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Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
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Social media applauded the team for their excellent efforts, appreciating the mind behind the eye-relaxing visuals.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
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World champion South African runner Caster Semenya, whose victory has been overshadowed by a gender testing row, returned home to a heroine's welcome on Tuesday.
South Africa's ruling party leapt on Thursday to the defence of a World champion runner undergoing a gender verification test, saying she was the country's "golden girl" and a role model for young athletes. Caster Semenya, whose rapid improvement over last year prompted the test, won the women's world 800 metres title with a crushing performance in Berlin on Wednesday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, Day 7.
Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah made Olympic history in Tokyo Tuesday, blazing to victory in the 200 metres to complete an unprecedented women's sprinting "double-double".
Rashmi Rocket suffers from overcrowding. Through its runtime of nearly two hours, it hints at too many issues without sinking its teeth into any, observes Deepti Patwardhan.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Behind sprinter Dutee Chand's rise is a hidden journey filled with pain and hardship.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
A round-up of all the results from the 16th World Athletic Championships in London
Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana ran the second fastest women's 5,000 metres in history as she missed out on the world record by just over a second at the Rome Diamond League in Rome, on Thursday.
alaika Mihambo of Germany snatched the Olympic gold in women's long jump with her final leap of 7.00 metres in an enthralling final at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday.
The London 2012 Olympics will be the first to have a set of guidelines for female athletes with excessive levels of male hormones, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on Tuesday.
'An athlete is never tension-free,' India's champion athlete tells Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi.
Olympic champions the United States reclaimed their women's 4x400m relay world title as Jamaica suffered more injury heartbreak in the World Championships final on Sunday.*
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