REUTERS: Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has lost her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal to set aside a 2019 Court of Arbitration ruling that female athletes with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it.
Testosterone increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance. Some competitors have said women with higher levels of the hormone have an unfair advantage. "Excluding female athletes or endangering our health solely because of our natural abilities puts World Athletics on the wrong side of history."I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, both on the track and off the track, until we can all run free the way we were born.
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