South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Gideon Sam has confirmed that the process to challenge the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in defence of Caster Semenya has begun. Legal experts‚ high-ranking officials from the Department of Sport and Recreation and members of Sascoc’s medical commission, led by Dr Phatho Zondi, met in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss the way forward. "The process is simple. As we speak now‚ there is a meeting taking place in Cape Town today between Sport Recreation SA‚ Sascoc medical commission and a group of lawyers looking into this matter‚" said Sam on Wednesday in Pretoria where Sascoc thanked the National Lotteries Commission for its support. "All those people are sitting around the table so that we have one voice going forward. We need to have a clear plan of how we are going to approach the IAAF and we want all related parties to engage. "We are getting our ducks in [a] row and after Wedne...
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