Kenya's Wambui fears testosterone rules will end career - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Wambui, who is tall and muscular, with braided hair and a shy smile, said she had never faced questions about her gender or appearance until the IAAF began cracking down on women with elevated testosterone.

Seated at a dirt-track stadium at the foot of the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi where she trains, Wambui has just returned from a disappointing sixth-place finish in the 800m at the Doha Diamond League. For about a decade Semenya has been the symbol of a furious debate worldwide about questions of gender, women with elevated testosterone, and physical advantage.

“Why, when you have a high level of testosterone in men, you are likely to perform well and we celebrate that? But when it comes to women we have to tell them to lower it and we draw them out of competition. Why?” asked Wambui.The new rule applies to distances from 400m to a mile, and includes the heptathlon, which concludes with an 800m race.

She said that maybe the idea of having different categories of runners – comparing it to boxing, where heavyweights don’t fight flyweights – might be “a good idea to make it fair.”Wambui grew up in Kenya’s central highlands in the town of Nyeri, and began running in primary school. She was thrust into the spotlight when she won a gold medal at the 2014 IAAF world junior championships and has since established herself as one of the world’s top two-lap runners.

This IAAF now is too much

This cannot be right. IAAF are eurocentric and anti African

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