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Caster Semenya (176) is running the 5,000m race at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, on April 15, 2021.
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya said she once suggested showing her vagina to officials She walked off the race track when she was 18 to show she was a woman.
In an interview with HBO’s Real Sports, Semenya accused In addition, the world athletics organization forced her to take medication that “tortured” her. and she made him fear that she was going to have a heart attack.
Real Sports broadcast on Monday part of his interview with the South African runner in a promotional short. The complete interview will be aired Tuesday in the United States.
In the interview, Semenya pondered. about the 2009 world championships in Berlin, where he won. At 18, he won the world title in the 800 meters in dominant form in his first major athletics competition.
However, due to his performance and musculature, the world governing body provoked a a strong controversy when he ordered the teen to submit to sex testing.
Semenya said officials on the governing body track “possibly” they thought she had a penis.
“I told them, ‘ good. I am a woman. No problem, if you want to confirm that I’m a woman, I’ll show you. my cunt Okay?’”, he declared.
After she won the world title, Semenya was forced by the world body to take medication to artificially lower her naturally high levels of testosterone if she wanted to compete in other women’s races.
Although the agency never said in what way. consisted of Semenya’s medication is believed to have been birth control pills or something with similar properties to lower her testosterone levels.
“They made me feel sick, they made me gain weight, I had I had panic attacks, I didn’t know if I would ever have a heart attack,” Semenya about her medication.
“It’s like stabbing yourself every day, but I had no other choice.”
“I’m 18 years old. I want to run, I want to participate in the Olympics; that is the only option I have. But I have to get it to work”.