PT Usha was bestowed with the award in the 52nd IAAF conference held in Doaba. Further, she was one of the three Asian athletes who were given the honour. The award was presented to her by the President of IAAF, Sebastian Coe.
Caster Semenya was elevated for the gold medal position two years ago when Russian athlete Mariya Savinova was later disqualified for doping violations.
In June, it was announced that Semenya was free to run the 800m without having to take medication. But later, she was denied participation in her favoured 800 metres race in Morocco, following a rule change by the IAAF, athletics’ governing body.
Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya has accused the world athletics’ governing body, the IAAF, of using her as a ‘human guinea pig’.
Caster Semenya is once again free to run the 800m without taking medication as in a surprise news Swiss Court overrules IAAF ruling over testosterone levels in female athletes.
On Wednesday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne dismissed Caster Semenya’s appeal against International IAAF’s rules over testosterone levels in female athletes. Two days after she lost appeal, the South African runner on Friday won her last 800m race. The victory came before new testosterone-limiting rules come into effect for women’s middle-distance track events. Semenya, […]
On Wednesday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne dismissed Caster Semenya’s appeal against International IAAF’s rules over testosterone levels in female athletes, making it compulsory for female athletes with high level of testosterone to take suppressant if they wish to compete with the other women participants in international sporting events such as Olympics. […]
The Court Of Arbitration for Sport, highest court in International Sports, has issued a judgement, which makes it compulsory for female athletes with high level of testosterone to take suppressant, in order to compete with the other women participants in international sporting events such as Olympics. The ruling of the court came both as a […]
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will finally be electing its first female vice-president this year, in order to ensure that women are represented at the highest levels of the sport. The federation is aiming to minimize gender gap, by trying to match the number of female members to that of men in the […]
The new sensation in World Athletics tracks, Assam girl Hima Das, has just bagged funds to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics under the Government’s Target Olympics Podium Scheme (TOPS). Sports India (erstwhile SAI) DG Neelam Kapur quoted by a Times of India report said, “Under the scheme, in addition to the Rs 50,000 per month as out […]
