Caster Semenya isn't training - may not compete in 2013

Wow. I thought she would fade away after the 2009 World Champs but she ran well in London despite her somewhat controversial finish... In the makeover pictures she looks a bit like Serena Williams but more like the disco singer Sylvester...good post. thank you..

You gotta wonder if she's having her balls removed...

You gotta wonder what hormone balancing drugs she has to take in order for the IAAF to let her compete...

Hope "she" retires.

she looks like serena williams? really? wanna check that again.

Looks like a tranny.

These posts on Ms. Semenya have been more coherent and less offensive than typical on Letsrun.com.

someone posted this news 4 hours before the Bros Jo 'broke' the story.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5195330

Castor Semenya is a lesbian- who wouldda thunk...

that is not a chick it's a dude

Yer not so smart wrote:

You gotta wonder if she's having her balls removed...

You gotta wonder what hormone balancing drugs she has to take in order for the IAAF to let her compete...

Hope "she" retires.

Now that is hilarious lmao

That make-over magazine article is from 2009.

She isn't less femenine than other emergent 800m runner from Burundi, Francine Niyonsabo. Take a look.

If I were Caster, I'd have a baby to shut up all the hermaphrodite talk, unless of course, its true.

Fairly obvious she's xxy.

Really sucks for her because that's just a confusing mess in life and on the track.

Not really fair to her competitors though when the sport is broken down by sex. Is it sexist or insensitive? No, the sport is broken down by sex, what do they expect the participants to do about it when it's such a muddled version of that line between man/woman.

Those trying to deflect and claim she's all woman really aren't doing her any favors. I wish people were more honest and open with the issue so that they wouldn't have to treat her like an outcast or some sort of leper. It is what it is, why not talk about it and why sometimes it's difficult to assign gender...?

unexpected results noted here wrote:

Castor Semenya is a lesbian- who wouldda thunk...

You can't be lesbian if you're a man.

winning strategy wrote:

Fairly obvious she's xxy.

Really sucks for her because that's just a confusing mess in life and on the track.

Not really fair to her competitors though when the sport is broken down by sex. Is it sexist or insensitive? No, the sport is broken down by sex, what do they expect the participants to do about it when it's such a muddled version of that line between man/woman.

Those trying to deflect and claim she's all woman really aren't doing her any favors. I wish people were more honest and open with the issue so that they wouldn't have to treat her like an outcast or some sort of leper. It is what it is, why not talk about it and why sometimes it's difficult to assign gender...?

Quite simple really. If you gots ovaries, you be female. If you gots testicles (descended or not), you be male. Semenya gots undescended testicles.

Chippper wrote:

Quite simple really. If you gots ovaries, you be female. If you gots testicles (descended or not), you be male. Semenya gots undescended testicles.

All this is true.....in 99.9% of cases. Seymenya seems to be one of those tragic 0.01% where the simple definitions just don't work. I think the solution that she was made to have hormone treatment was the right one and we will have to accept that in some cases we have to check these things out and allow a solution. Given her post 2009 performances it does appear that we have managed to allow a happy medium. She has the treatment (possibly an op too) and now competes on a more even level with the girls.

Forget Semenya

The new person ready to dominate the "womens" 800m is Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi who makes Semenya look like Miss America.

She's biologically intersex. Her gender is female. I don't understand why people have so much trouble with this.

winning strategy wrote:

Fairly obvious she's xxy.

Really sucks for her because that's just a confusing mess in life and on the track.

Not really fair to her competitors though when the sport is broken down by sex. Is it sexist or insensitive? No, the sport is broken down by sex, what do they expect the participants to do about it when it's such a muddled version of that line between man/woman.

Those trying to deflect and claim she's all woman really aren't doing her any favors. I wish people were more honest and open with the issue so that they wouldn't have to treat her like an outcast or some sort of leper. It is what it is, why not talk about it and why sometimes it's difficult to assign gender...?

Agree with most of this. A few things are mysteries. Did the confidential deal with the IAAF require her to take hormones to lower her testosterone?

She's a college student, right?

Why has it seemed impossible for her to realize she had a totally unfair advantage over "other" women?

How many of us in college would have wanted to compete against high school kids all the time?

I have no doubt that if the IAAF hadn't interceded that she could have just crushed every competition she wanted.

Strong bet the SA Federation folks wanted to use her to make the money for themselves.

Sad situation for her, but also not fair for the women in her event.