Caster Semenya is having trouble finding sponsors after gender controversy
October 28, 2010 | 11:10 am

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/10/caster-semenya-is-having-trouble-finding-sponsors-after-gender-controversy.html

The investigation surrounding Caster Semenya's gender may be over, but her troubles have not ended.

After becoming the first black South African woman to win gold at a world championship in Berlin last August, and being labeled the country's "Golden Girl," companies are hesitant to back the 19-year-old whose reputation has been tarnished by a gender controversy and 11-month layoff from competition.

Semenya's competitors accused her of being a man, but after gender tests, she was cleared to compete as a female athlete. Still, her manager Tshepo Seema said she can't find a sponsor "because of the negative publicity."