Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Caster Semenya

Caster Semenya wants to inspire resilience with memoir published by Merky Books

She won the 2009 World Championships in Berlin at the age of 18.

The Independent UK

Transgender track and field athletes can't compete in women's international events

World Athletics Council said they prioritize fairness and the integrity of female track and field competitions, rather than inclusion. The ruling could hinder several Olympic medalists.

WEKU

Attorney-general responds to Lidia Thorpe incident, school shooter's parents may face trial, and TikTok CEO grilled — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

World Athletics bans transgender women athletes

World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty.

The New Daily

Track bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Semenya

Track and field has banned transgender athletes from international competition while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing

The Independent UK

World Athletics Council excludes transgender women from female events

World Athletics has confirmed that its council has voted to exclude transgender women from female events

The Guardian - UK

Semenya, Coburn join XC regulars at world championships

South Africa's Caster Semenya has won Olympic and world titles on the track over 800 meters but can’t run that distance competitively now so she’s running cross-country on a world championship course more synonymous with an iconic Australian auto race

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

World track body proposal: No ban on transgender athletes

Track and field’s governing body is facing renewed criticism from some for a proposal to allow transgender athletes to continue competing in top female events with stricter rules

The Independent UK

World Athletics’ transgender regulations see scientific rigour give way to a fudge

Sebastian Coe promised to be ‘guided by science’ when it comes to sport’s most divisive issue. But World Athletics’ solution is clearly designed to protect it from legal action too

The Guardian - UK

Transgender athletes to be allowed to compete against women in new World Athletics rules

World Athletics have reportedly sent a 'confidential consultation' to member federations with the preferred option to tighten rules around trans women athletes but not ban them from female events

Daily Mirror

World Athletics Championships: Norah Jeruto storms world steeple, Feng Bin clinches women’s discus gold

Jeruto clocked the third fastest time in history and a championship record of 8min 53.02sec for the steeplechase victory in Eugene

The Hindu

Jeruto claims steeplechase gold, Feng Bin wins women’s discus

Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase gold while China’s Feng Bin outdid Olympic champion Valerie Allman in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday

The Hindu

‘Biology trumps gender’: Athletics could ban transgender and DSD women from female events

World Athletics will review its policies on transgender women and DSD athletes and president Sebastian Coe has hinted the sport will follow swimming in tightening its regulations

The Independent UK

Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules

Caster Semenya’s first appearance in the world championships since 2017 saw her knocked out without fuss or fanfare after finishing 45 seconds off qualifying for Saturday’s 5,000m final

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Caster Semenya returns to world athletics championships, but not in her pet event due to rules around testosterone levels

Caster Semenya switches to 5,000m because of hormone-treatment rules imposed upon her that she calls "an affront to the spirit of the sport".

The Independent UK

Caster Semenya is back, so is her sport's thorniest problem

South African runner Caster Semenya's surprise return to the world championships this week coincides with a new reckoning over the rules in track and field that regulate the participation of women with high natural testosterone in female events

The Independent UK

Athing Mu on Keely Hodgkinson 800m rivalry: ‘We’re always gonna be here, we’re changing the game’

Exclusive interview: As the US and British Olympic stars meet again at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Mu discusses their friendly rivalry, running 400 and leaving a legacy

Sports Illustrated

Reports: Zambia’s Banda Out of WAFCON Due to Gender Eligibility Tests

The star striker will not participate in the tournament after the controversial ruling.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Coe hints athletics may bar transgender women from female competition

Sebastian Coe suggested his sport may follow swimming’s lead, saying ‘biology trumps gender’ and World Athletics’ policies will reflect this

The Independent UK

Title IX's next battle: The rights of transgender athletes

The law known as Title IX has influenced athletics in the United States for 50 years

Daily Record

Olympic champion Caster Semenya 'offered to show vagina' to athletics bosses in gender test

The South African runner should by right be regarded as one of the greatest competitors on the track, winning gold at two consecutive Olympic Games - London 2012 and then Rio 2016.

ABC News

Caster Semenya says taking testosterone-lowering medication was like 'stabbing yourself with a knife'

The dual Olympic champion speaks about the impact of taking hormonal medication, as well as being subjected to invasive "gender verification" testing by World Athletics.

ABC News

Trans women in sport politicised and weaponised in election campaign as other issues ignored

Focus has once again turned to the issue of transgender women in sport, leaving more significant issues unchallenged, writes Tracey Holmes.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.