Sports sex test overhaul urged after Semenya case

[Shana A]

Sports sex test overhaul urged after Semenya case

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

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CAPE TOWN — The use of genetics in sports to test the gender of athletes must be revisited in the wake of the controversial case of South African champion runner Caster Semenya, an expert said on Wednesday.

"In the Caster case, everything went wrong from the beginning," University of Cape Town academic Ambroise Wonkam said at a conference of African societies of human genetics.