The International Association of Athletics Federations is reviewing gender test results to determine whether Semenya is eligible to compete as a woman.
Caster Semenya will have to wait a little longer before learning whether she will be allowed to compete again after undergoing a gender test.
Semenya had hoped to challenge for gold at the Commonwealth Games after being cleared to run by the IAAF in July following a gender test dispute.
We had the same row over the runner Caster Semenya who made phenomenal improvements on her time at 800m and 1500m and had to undergo a humiliating gender test before being cleared by the IAAF in 2010.
The teenage Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport against her indefinite ban from competition, imposed after she failed a controversial "gender test".
Walsh was beaten to second place in the 100 metres at the 1936 games, where her rival, the American Helen Stephens, was accused of being a man and underwent the first at-event gender test (which she passed).
The world track and field body is expected to release her gender test results in June, and Semenya says she will return to competition on June 24 at a meet in Zaragoza, Spain.
To the Sports Editor: Re "No Clear Option for Testing," June 18: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, a sportscaster said, in reference to the figure skater Johnny Weir, "We should make him pass a gender test".
A preliminary gender test administered by South African authorities before the world championships raised enough concerns that Dr. Harold Adams, one of the South African medical experts who reviewed it, recommended that she not be allowed to compete.
In historical context, the ensuing furore was utterly predictable, even though the decision to allow Fox to compete was based upon the International Olympic Committee's guidelines for transsexual athletes, ratified in 2004 and revised after the gender test row around Caster Semanya.
