Semenya to race again

After 11 months in exile Caster Semenya, South African 800-metre world champion, is reportedly set to be cleared to race against women.

According to a report in The Telegraph, the IAAF and ASA is preparing to make the announcement in the next few days, thus ending one of the biggest scandals to engulf sport.

Semenya has not run competitively since winning the 800m title at the world championships last August in Berlin. Her dramatic improvement in times and muscular build led the IAAF to order gender verification tests.

An announcement on Semenya’s status was expected to be made last month, but organisers abruptly cancelled the news conference. The sport’s governing body said her “procedure” had not yet been completed.

The news conference was supposed to have addressed the “outcomes” of the dispute over Semenya’s gender verification tests.

IAAF president Lamine Diack, who is in South Africa for the World Cup, said last month that a solution to the controversy would be found “not later than the end of June.”

And it appears that the outcome will be in favour of Semenya, who after almost a year on the sidelines, may finally get her wish and appear on the track to race once again.