09 August,2017 09:54 AM IST | London | PTI
There is no one better than Caster Semenya who can relate to the plight of Dutee Chand and the South African says the Indian sprinter should focus more on training while describing the discussion on her gender test as boring and nonsense
Dutee Chand
There is no one better than Caster Semenya who can relate to the plight of Dutee Chand and the South African says the Indian sprinter should focus more on training while describing the discussion on her gender test as "boring and nonsense".
Asked what she told Dutee when they met in Rio, Semenya said: "We did not talk much. We just exchanged ways and greetings and said, 'how are you?' That is it. She is a nice girl. She just needs to focus more on training and doing better for herself. I feel sorry for her, she is still young. But we are not the same, I do my things my own way."
The Hyperandrogenism Policy of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) bars female athletes with high levels of testosterone from competing on the ground that they have an unfair advantage over their peers. Dutee was banned by the Athletics Federation of India in 2014 under this policy but she challenged it in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In July 2015, the CAS overturned the ban.
