Athletics body delays new gender rules over CAS appeal of Semenya
MONACO: The IAAF announced on Tuesday it had agreed to postpone by five months the implementation of controversial new rules on high testosterone levels in female athletes to avoid further delay in proceedings brought by South African track star Caster Semenya challenging their legality.
World track and field’s governing body had scheduled November 1 as the date they wanted to introduce the rules that have split opinion: many female athletes welcome the new rules as a way to create a fairer playing field while others such as Semenya argue it is discriminatory. “A contested application to stay the implementation of the DSD regulations would have caused additional delay and created new uncertainty for athletes seeking to compete in women’s category,” the IAAF said in a statement. Semenya, with the backing of the South African athletics federation (ASA), has turned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in her challenge of IAAF rules.
UKRAINIAN BROTHERS GIVEN TENNIS LIFE BANS
LONDON: Ukrainian twin brothers Gleb and Vadim Alekseenko have been banned from tennis for life and each fined $250,000 for multiple match-fixing and corrupt betting. Independent anticorruption hearing officer Richard Mclaren found the brothers guilty on Monday based on an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit. The 35-year-old brothers committed offences in Romania, Russia, Germany, and Turkey from June 2015 to Jan. 2016, and they solicited a third party to wager on matches in which they contrived the outcome.