‘I still have 10 years or more in athletics’
Even the official Diamond League starter seemed unsure of what was about to unfold when he held the athletes under orders seemingly for an eternity before releasing them in the 800 metres in Doha on Friday night.
“Caster Semenya’s future is 800m, thank you” came the reply as well as a swift, firm “hell no” to whether she would be taking medication. And the 5,000m she won at the recent South Africa National Championships? Just a training exercise, she said, designed just to help her fitness for the 800m. Anyone would have understood if Semenya had not felt able to compete just two days after the Cas ruling. But while her dominant performance on the track was impressive, it was the manner in which she held herself afterwards that deserves particular credit.
Live sporting action has a way of generating emotions that the dry corridors of law courts cannot. The immediate aftermath of Friday’s race was proof of that. It is hard not to feel sorry for Sharp, who says she has received death threats. She was targeted again by some South African news outlets on Friday. Yet she has more reason than most to understand the debate, having written a dissertation on the subject while studying law at Edinburgh Napier University.
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