JOHANNESBURG – Caster Semenya was invited on Friday to run in an 800m race in Morocco on Sunday – after previously saying she had been denied the right to participate in the event – but the invitation came too late for her to get there, her agent said.
Speaking to Reuters by phone on Friday, her agent Jukka Harkonen said the lateness of the invitation made it impossible for Semenya to travel to Rabat in time for the race, because it was a journey of more than 20 hours from her home country South Africa.Semenya became the centre of heated international debate after a controversial ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport .
The Swiss Federal Tribunal later ordered the IAAF to immediately suspend implementation of the regulations on Semenya, allowing her to compete without restriction, while she appealed against the decision.— Caster Semenya June 14, 2019 On Thursday, Semenya said the tribunal had rejected an IAAF request to re-impose the rules, but she had nevertheless had a request to race in the Rabat event denied by the Royal Moroccan Athletics Federation, with no reasons being given.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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