Athletics federation will not back down on female athletes with higher testosterone
London — The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not soften its stance on new regulations for female classification and is ready to defend it in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), its president Sebastian Coe has said. Coe’s comments follow Tuesday’s meeting in London with Athletics SA (ASA) president Aleck Skhosana in which the concerns of ASA over the new ruling were discussed. ASA and South African double Olympic and triple world 800m champion Caster Semenya have both separately appealed to CAS to have the new regulations, which limit the levels of naturally occurring testosterone in female athletes, set aside. Coe and Skhosana met to clarify their positions and with neither side willing to budge they have declared that CAS is the best body to rule on the dispute.
"We will support our athletes on the grounds that the regulations discriminate against certain female athletes on the basis of natural physical characteristics and/or sex," Skhosan...
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