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Caster Semenya has lost an appeal against IAAF and must now use medications to compete. Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Caster Semenya’s appeal against regulations to limit naturally-occurring testosterone levels in athletes.
    South African middle-distance runner and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya has been ordered by the Court of Arbitration for Sports to take medications before competing in any event. This comes after the 28-year-old Olympic gold medalist challenged a controversial International Association of Athletics Federations rule targeting women who naturally produce high levels of testosterone. The Court of Arbitration for Sports however ruled on Wednesday, May 1, that Semenya will have to take medications that suppress her testosterone output to continue competing. Semenya is believed to have an intersex condition that causes her body to naturally produce testosterone at levels much higher than most women.