The court of arbitration for sport may have come down on one side of the debate over the athlete but its ruling contained enough holes and caveats to mean the dispute will continue
The crux of the Caster Semenya ruling, the line that cuts a path through the thicket of conflicting arguments and contrary opinions, is buried midway through the sixth paragraph of the summary of the verdict. It all turns on one little word: “but.” The paragraph explains that the court of arbitration for sport’s three-person panel found that the IAAF’s regulations requiring Semenya and other middle distance runners with Differences of Sex Development to lower their naturally high levels of testosterone are “discriminatory” but that “such discrimination is a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the IAAF’s aim of preserving the integrity of female athletics.”
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