Semenya says she offered to show track officials her body

Published May 23, 2022 2:17 PM

By GERALD IMRAY
AP Sports Writer

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya says she offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. The South African runner also says in an interview with HBO Real Sports that the hormone-reducing medication that world track and field authorities forced her to take to compete “tortured” her and made her fear that she was going to have a heart attack. HBO Real Sports broadcast parts of its interview with Semenya in a promotional clip on Monday. The full interview is due to air in the United States on Tuesday.

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