{"id":2972,"date":"2019-04-05T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T08:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.dinesh-ghimire.com.np\/wpthemes\/blogmag\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-04-05T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T08:01:54","slug":"sports-court-delays-caster-semenya-verdict-until-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"Sports court delays Caster Semenya verdict until April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday that it was delaying until next month its ruling on a challenge filed by South African double Olympic champion Caster Semenya against the IAAF. <br \/><br \/>A decision in the controversial case had been due next week, but the world&#8217;s top sport court said it would not issue a verdict &#8220;until the end of April&#8221; because both sides had filed additional material since the hearing in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended By Colombia<br \/><br \/>Semenya is challenging proposals by the International Association of Athletics Federations that aim to restrict female athletes&#8217; testosterone levels. <br \/><br \/>The IAAF is seeking to force so-called &#8220;hyperandrogenic&#8221; athletes or those with &#8220;differences of sexual development&#8221; (DSD) to seek treatment to lower their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount if they wish to continue competing as women. <br \/><br \/>The athletics governing body has argued the moves are necessary to create a &#8220;level playing field&#8221; for other female athletes. <br \/><br \/>A wide coalition has rallied behind Semenya&#8217;s cause, including the government in her native South Africa and rights activists worldwide. <br \/><br \/>Some scientific experts have argued that barring Semenya from competition due to naturally high testosterone levels would be like excluding basketball players because they are too tall. <br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,100,101],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-update","tag-caster-semenya","tag-sports","tag-sports-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairemag.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}