{"id":13621,"date":"2023-07-11T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=13621"},"modified":"2023-07-11T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:36:34","slug":"semenya-wins-case-against-swiss-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2023\/07\/11\/semenya-wins-case-against-swiss-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Semenya wins case against Swiss court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/caster-semenya-594x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South African Double Olympic 800m champion, Caster Semenya, has won the case at the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled she was a victim of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old, who was classified as &#8220;having differences in sexual development\u201d, has refused to take testosterone-lowering drugs as mandated by the sport\u2019s international federation, World Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Semenya approached the European court in 2021 after losing an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Switzerland\u2019s appeals court.<\/p>\n<p>The decision could see the re-examination of regulations that force some female athletes to artificially reduce naturally high testosterone levels in order to compete top positions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a developing story.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Olympic champion, Caster Semenya, has won her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the infringement on her rights after the ruling that she, &amp; other athletes with naturally higher testosterone, must take testosterone-lowering medication to be able to compete. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/epVkwstwVF\">https:\/\/t.co\/epVkwstwVF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J9oZIMsHoB\">pic.twitter.com\/J9oZIMsHoB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @AmnestySAfrica (@AmnestySAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmnestySAfrica\/status\/1678719458720858115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Double Olympic 800m champion, Caster Semenya, has won the case at the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled she was a victim of discrimination. The 31-year-old, who was classified as &#8220;having differences in sexual development\u201d, has refused to take testosterone-lowering drugs as mandated by the sport\u2019s international ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/caster-semenya-594x400-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13635,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions\/13635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}