South African star Caster Semenya criticises World Athletics in scathing tweet

South African star Caster Semenya has called out World Athletics in a scathing post on Twitter.

The runner is unable to compete across a number of distances due to the World Athletics regulations for athletes with differences of sex development.

She is prohibited from competing in distances from 400 metres to mile, but can race across 100m, 200m and any event further than 1600m.

In her Twitter post, Semenya claimed there was a lack of logic in the regulations.

“So according to World Athletics and its members, I’m a male when it comes to 400m, 800m, 1500m and 1600m,” she wrote.

“Then a female in 100m, 200m, and long distance events. What a research. What kind of a fool would do that?”

The World Athletics regulations, implemented in 2018, prohibit athletes with DSD from competing between 400m and a mile unless they take hormone-reducing drugs.

Semenya, a two-time Olympic gold medallist in the 800m, refuses to take such drugs and was subsequently not able to defend her title at Tokyo 2020.

After unsuccessful appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court, the 30-year-old is currently awaiting a hearing at the European Court of Human Rights.

So according to World Athletics and it's members I'm a male when it comes to 400m,800m, 1500m and 1600m! Then a female in 100m,200m, and long distance events.