Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has accused the global athletics governing body of using her as a human guinea pig as it emerged that the IAAF had sought to have her declared a “biological male” in proceedings before sport’s highest court.
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If it had been news about the former sports minister who had defiantly sat on $150,000 mistakenly paid into the ministry’s account by the IAAF, I might have found it easier to believe.
World athletics body IAAF said on Tuesday it will fight a Swiss court decision to suspend its rules obliging athletes, including double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in certain events.
Caster Semenya is once again free to run the 800m without having to take medication – at least for the time being – after the Swiss supreme federal court ordered the IAAF to suspend its testosterone regulations for athletes with differences in sexual development with immediate effect.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has been given two weeks to return an overpayment of $134,000 (£104,000/€120,000) to the International Association of Athletics Federations or risk being sanctioned by the worldwide governing body.
Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics’ governing body, meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.
Omatseye Nesiama, an International Association of Athletics Federations licensed Manager, on Sunday said that Nigeria and the West African have the potentials to excel in cross-country race.
The International Association of Athletics Federations says it will elect its first female Vice-President this year.
The International Association of Athletics Federations says it has launched a new official world rankings system.A statement on the association’ s website said it was designed to provide a more effective way of identifying the top athletes in each discipline by rewarding consistency and competition among the world’s best.
The Confederation of African Athletics had on Tuesday selected 77 athletes from across the continent to represent Africa at the competition scheduled for September 8 to September 9 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Russia will remain banned from world athletics until December at the earliest, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced.
Law professor, Steve Cornelius, was appointed to the International Association of Athletics Federations tribunal late last year.
Ebewele, who made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Benin, said there were innovations introduced in the 6th edition of the race that has been upgraded to a Silver Label road race by the IAAF.
The House will also look into the threat of banning the country from IAAF activities if the money was not recovered.
Rune Andersen, an independent chair of the International Association of Athletics Federations Russian Taskforce, gave the warning on Tuesday.
Despite Russian athletes being allowed back into Olympic competition, the IAAF said the country’s anti-doping body RUSADA had met some requirements for reinstatement, but not all of them.
The Poles broke the record for a stunning finish to the final track event of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the championships is scheduled to hold from Thursday to Sunday.
Amusan will feature in the women’s 60m hurdles alongside Lindsay Lindley, while Okon-George will feature in the women’s 400m and the 4x400m relay.
“It feels like a blur,” said the 21-year-old Coleman, who won the 100-metres silver medal at last year’s world championships in London.
Olopade said that immediately after the race, the marathon office would apply for the race which, within two years, attained the rank of a Bronze-label race.