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Re: Runner's Gender Test Results....
Semenya's Gender Test Results Are In
Posted Sep 10, 2009 8:09 PM By The Associated Press(AP)Print Text Size A AA(Sept. 10) -- The IAAF has received the results of gender tests on Caster Semenya, winner of the women's 800-meter world title last month, and will meet with the South African runner before completing its report.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Thursday he couldn't confirm a story in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper stating that tests show Semenya has male and female sexual organs.
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2009, file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2009, file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, South Africa's gold medal winner Caster Semenya displays her medal after the ceremony for the Women's 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. . (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 7: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African National athletics coach, Wilfred Daniels, poses during an interview with a local newspaper, September 7, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Daniels has quit Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the "repulsive handling" of the Caster Semenya gender debacle. Daniels resigned from all South African Athletics bodies in a letter sent to the ASA. He has been the head coach of SA teams since 1993. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Wilfred Daniels
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African National athletics coach, Wilfred Daniels, poses at an athletics stadium, July 30, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Daniels has quit Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the "repulsive handling" of the Caster Semenya gender debacle. Daniels resigned from all South African Athletics bodies in a letter sent to the ASA. He has been the head coach of SA teams since 1993. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Wilfred Daniels
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African National athletics coach, Wilfred Daniels, poses at an athletics stadium, July 30, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Daniels has quit Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the "repulsive handling" of the Caster Semenya gender debacle. Daniels resigned from all South African Athletics bodies in a letter sent to the ASA. He has been the head coach of SA teams since 1993. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Wilfred Daniels
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African National athletics coach, Wilfred Daniels, poses at an athletics stadium, July 30, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Daniels has quit Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the "repulsive handling" of the Caster Semenya gender debacle. Daniels resigned from all South African Athletics bodies in a letter sent to the ASA. He has been the head coach of SA teams since 1993. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Wilfred Daniels
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POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) Caster Semenya greets the crowd during the street parade to celebrate her return to her home town of Masehlong village on August 30, 2009 in Polokwane, South Africa. South Africans have rallied behind Semenya in a national show of support sparked by an announcement last week by the governing body of athletics that she would have to undergo a battery of tests to verify her gender. (Photo by City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Caster Semenya
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POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African athlete Caster Semenya gestures outside a hut at her home town of Masehlong village on August 30, 2009 in Polokwane, South Africa. South Africans have rallied behind Semenya in a national show of support sparked by an announcement last week by the governing body of athletics that she would have to undergo a battery of tests to verify her gender. (Photo by City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Caster Semenya
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) South African athlete Caster Semenya poses outside the ASA offices in Rosebank on August 24, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africans have rallied behind Semenya in a national show of support sparked by an announcement last week by the governing body of athletics that she would have to undergo a battery of tests to verify her gender. (Photo by City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Caster Semenya
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POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 30: (SOUTH AFRICA, UAE, BRAZIL OUT) Caster Semenya waves to the crowd during the street parade to celebrate her return to her home town of Masehlong village on August 30, 2009 in Polokwane, South Africa. South Africans have rallied behind Semenya in a national show of support sparked by an announcement last week by the governing body of athletics that she would have to undergo a battery of tests to verify her gender. (Photo by City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Caster Semenya
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"I simply haven't seen the results," Davies said. "We have received the results from Germany, but they now need to be examined by a group of experts and we will not be in a position to speak to the athlete about them for at least a few weeks.
"After that, depending on the results, we will meet privately with the athlete to discuss further action."
The Australian newspaper reported in its Friday edition that medical reports on the 18-year-old Semenya indicate she has no ovaries, but rather has internal male testes, which are producing large amounts of testosterone.
Davies said the newspaper's report "should be treated with caution."
After dominating her race at the world championships in Berlin last month, Semenya underwent blood and chromosome tests, as well as a gynecological examination.
The IAAF has said Semenya probably would keep her medal because the case was not related to a doping matter.
"Our legal advice is that, if she proves to have an advantage because of the male hormones, then it will be extremely difficult to strip the medal off her, since she has not cheated," Davies wrote to the AP. "She was naturally made that way, and she was entered in Berlin by her team and accepted by the IAAF. But let's wait and see once we have the final decision."
The South African Press Association reported that the country's president of athletics hadn't been informed of any reports by the IAAF.
"These are insulting words that the media are using, but we are in the dark," SAPA quoted Leonard Chuene as telling The Star newspaper. "We just don't know what affect this information will have on her deep down. This process is not correct."
AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich in New York contributed to this report.
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