“Semena should have retired a long time ago and not made a fuss about her” – Yolanda Chen

World Athletics Champion Yolanda Chen believes that the double Olympic champion in the 800m Caster Semene it is worth lowering the level of testosterone, because all athletes should be on an equal footing.

Semenya previously won an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. In court, she challenged rules requiring female athletes with high testosterone levels to reduce testosterone levels with medication.

“Caster waited a long time to stop and calm down. She should have finished her sports career a long time ago and not make noise around her. She sued World Athletics to no avail. But in the West, in recent years, there has been such a tendency that such people are pitied and try to indulge in everything. And it seems to me, basically, that this story has nothing to do with sport.

And the decision that Semyon should lower the testosterone level is correct. Because all athletes must be on an equal footing. Otherwise, all the interest of the competition is lost. Women with higher testosterone levels perform better. This can be equated with doping and removed. And it does not matter whether she was given to her by nature or resorted to an artificial increase in this hormone. After all, there are competition laws. They clearly state that women with high testosterone levels cannot participate. And this must be observed regardless of how this level has increased for you. If the semen has deviations, let her do something else.

And there is no violation of human rights. With the same success, all athletes who have an acceptable level of testosterone in the body can petition the ECHR to remove Caster from competition. Because Semenya obviously wins all the races. This is unacceptable,” Chen told RT.

Semenya is a double Olympic champion, triple world champion in the 800 meters. The last time she participated in the world championship in 2017, where she won gold and bronze. The athlete was suspended from the 2019 World Championships in Qatar after the Swiss Federal Court reversed its decision to suspend the IAAF (now World Athletics) rule allowing female athletes with high levels of testosterone.

RT