The South African, three Olympic gold medals and two world championships, can no longer run her 800 and closes with the 28th time of the day out of 35 classified
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All we need is the heat (33-34 degrees) that oppresses Hayward Field: Caster, at the beginning at the bottom of the group, after irremediably detached, slipper, dangles, caracolla, puffs. Where did the athlete who ruled the world go? Where is the middle distance runner with three Olympic and two world gold medals? There is no more. Also because then she ran the 800 and now she is forced to do the 5000, given that the regulations of the international federation, since 2018, prohibit her and those in her natural condition (excess of testosterone) from competing in women’s trials between 400 and The mile. Caster – Caster Semenya – returns to the world championship scene after five years and a thousand battles (lost) for the recognition of his rights as an intersex athlete. And she is the sad stand-in for herself. She aged (she turned 31 in January) and weighed down. The features, those, have not changed: they are always masculine. Not even sportsmanship: before and after the race she goes to greet the opponents.
The race
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He is in the first of two batteries: the audience is on his side. When her name is announced and her face is framed, there is a small roar. She ready-off and gets in the middle of the group. She holds up just over a km (2’57 “). Then she queues up. Then, before the transition to 2000 (3’04 ”), he loses contact. The action, compared to that of the others, is heavy. It’s a surrender: the South African does the 3rd km in 3’15 “and the 4th in 3’17”. In the last one (3’13 ”) she loses a couple of more positions: she has no change of pace, she no longer has basic speed. She closes (anonymous thirteenth) in 15’46 “12, 54” from the winner, the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay. And about fifteen seconds more than the personnel obtained in April in Cape Town, a time that contributed to increasing its international ranking and thus ending up in the group of fished out for Eugene after the various sacrifices of those who preceded it.
Stages
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The feelings are opposed. On the one hand, despite everything, there is the (very human) “pleasure” of finding the athlete and the person again in an environment that is still dear to her. “It’s nice to have raced here – admits Caster, with extreme humility, in the mixed zone -: just finishing this 5000 was a blessing for me. I am having experiences and I am willing to make others. The heat here, however, prevented me from doing better. I tried as long as I could ”. On the other hand, the regret of having seen it like this, out of condition and out of context, prevails. The di lei is the 28th time trial of the day out of 35 classified. It is easy to imagine that, on an international track, it was her last performance. Those of another type will continue: in the courtrooms in defense of their rights.
July 21 – 03:57
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