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Bullies can’t stop Caster – not even IAAF ones

15 August 2019 - 07:00 By Alex Patrick
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Caster Semenya has likened her struggles at school with what she is going through now with IAAF.
Caster Semenya has likened her struggles at school with what she is going through now with IAAF.
Image: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images for IAAF

Caster Semenya had to start fielding questions over her gender when she was in school, playing football with the boys.

One day she had had enough – and walked naked into the boys’ changing room, she told a conference in Joburg.

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, who has been locked in a battle with athletics authorities over her testosterone levels, says she has not felt support from other women in sport.

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