South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya is reaching out for help to fund her ongoing authorized battle towards rules requiring feminine athletes with excessive testosterone ranges to take medicine.
Semenya, who received a big authorized victory final July, faces one other problem on the European Court docket of Human Rights in Might, the place hearings are set to start on Might 15. Regardless of the earlier ruling in her favor, Semenya nonetheless wants monetary assets to cowl the prices of authorized illustration and skilled witnesses.
“We lack funds. We’ve a number of specialists that are available that we have to pay,” Caster informed a press convention in Johannesburg. “Something that you could be contribute, it makes an enormous distinction”.
The rules, launched by World Athletics in 2018, have prevented Semenya from competing in her most popular occasion, the 800 meters. Whereas the earlier court docket ruling was symbolic, Semenya hopes to proceed her battle for the precise to compete with out present process hormone-reducing therapy.
Semenya received Olympic gold on the 2012 London Video games and at Rio in 2016 and picked up world titles in 2009, 2011, and 2017.
