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Semenya rips IOC chief over transgender ban

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CAPE TOWN -- Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender athletes from competing at the Games. Semenya, who is South African, said she expected more from a woman leader such as Coventry, who is from Zimbabwe and a fellow African. "Personally, for her as a leader, she's an African, I'm sure she understands how, you know, we as Africans, we are coming from, as a global South, you know, you cannot control genetics," Semenya said at a news conference after a women's race promoted to celebrate female strength, unity and community support in Cape Town. "For me personally, for her being a woman coming from Africa, knowing how, you know, African women or women in the global South are affected by that." Semenya spoke three days after the IOC excluded transgender women athletes from competing in women's events at the Olympics or any IOC event.…

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