South Africa's Caster Semenya has launched a scathing attack on the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) in reaction to a document released by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday.
The 163-page document relates to CAS's decision which was first made known on May 1. CAS said all the parties concerned had agreed to make public the details contained in the document.
Shortly afterwards, Semenya issued a media release which read: “The IAAF used me in the past as a human guinea pig to experiment with how the medication they required me to take would affect my testosterone levels.
"Even though the hormonal drugs made me feel constantly sick, the IAAF now wants to enforce even stricter thresholds with unknown health consequences.
"I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my body again. But I am concerned that other female athletes will feel compelled to let the IAAF drug them and test the effectiveness and negative health effects of different hormonal drugs.
"This cannot be allowed to happen.”
Earlier this month on 3 June, Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court (SFT) temporarily suspended the new IAAF rules until 25 June.
African News Agency