He won the 800 meters at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Of the 800 in Tokyo according to the new rules, she sought to run the 5,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, but did not achieve a qualifying time in the event.
“It is surprising that World Athletics did not disclose this evidence before the recent Tokyo Olympics and did not allow Castor to defend his 800m title,” Semenya’s lawyer Knott told The Telegraph.
Roger Pilke Jr., a University of Colorado professor who has for many years criticized the science used by World Athletics to ban Semenya and Other Intersex Athletessaid in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the DSD rules should be suspended until an independent review.
“This is a test for world athletics to show that they are really listening to the evidence and the science, versus trying to bend the science to some predetermined decision,” Pilke said.
before he wrote his substack The correction was “the admission of an error by World Athletics into the only empirical analysis that outlines its eligibility rules for female athletes.”
“The effects are massive,” he said.
World Athletics on Wednesday tried to downplay the importance of reform. It said criticism of the 2017 study was addressed in a 2018 article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The correction was made, the World Athletics scientists wrote, to clarify persistent questions raised by independent observers about a causal relationship between high testosterone levels and female athletic performance.
A 2017 research paper had “no impact” on a decade of research conducted before World Athletics implemented eligibility rules for female athletes, the governing body said in a statement.