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Gender test unlikely to affect Semanya's title - IAAF

BERLIN -- The South African teenager caught up in the gender-test flap bowed her head to receive the gold medal for winning the 800-meters at the world championships on Thursday, while officials and family came to her defense.

Caster Semenya won by a huge margin Wednesday in the face of revelations that the world track body asked her to undergo gender testing.

About three weeks ago, the IAAF asked the South African athletics federation to conduct the gender test after Semenya burst onto the scene by posting a world leading time of 1 minute, 56.72 seconds at the African junior championships in Bambous, Mauritius.



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