Caster Semenya on the cover of You Magazine in sexy garb
"I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me. God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself," South Africa's world 800m champion Caster Semenya told You Magazine (a popular South African magazine) after getting a sexy makeover for a recent photo shot.
"I don't want to talk about the tests -- I'm not even thinking about them," she added.
"When I was in Berlin, I called my parents and said I'd heard people were talking about me. I told them not to listen to any of it. They know me and they know who I am."
But the runners appearance in the magazine wearing stilettos and liquid skinny jeans only served to reignite the controversy that has many wondering if she'll be allowed to keep her world champion title.
As you may recall from THIS story,
The 18-year-old South African runner came out of nowhere and easily won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the recent World Championships in Berlin.
But even before she stepped onto the track insiders were questioning the runners gender, and now the runner is awaiting gender test results that could strip of of her top podium position and her world championship title.
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Comments
A chick no doubt. I would like to kick those punks teeth in! I mean the ones who said she is a boy!! Including her competitors!
she is very beautiful!
She cleans up well.
she is so not beautiful sorry but its the truth..disgrace to the female race
Andrejeama: Go and boil your head you muppet.
NSK, the test results say she's a hermaphrodite. Just sayin'... You can put a guy in a dress and make him look like a girl if you want to...but that said, I do feel bad for her. All of this media attention and having her private business out there must suck.
The media Want to bring someone down again..Like they brought Michael jackson down...
CASTER Dont Let them Bring you down Be strong!!
She Beautiful So Some people dont know what their talking about....
I Feel so bad for Her..The media Sucks!
They will bring you Up,,And then Take you down...
LEAVE HER ALONE!!
Gosh!!
They need leave her alone. She didn't try to cheat, she earned that medal with hard work. The rest is her business, she's a human being like everybody else, nobody should be treated as disrespectful as people have treated her.
They need to leave her alone. She didn't try to cheat anybody, and she worked hard for that medal. The rest is her business. She's a human being like everybody else. We all deserve to be treated with respect. The media is just trying to drag her through the mud. She deserves that medal ... you go Caster, good for you girl!
God bless her and her family. But her condition is an unfair advantage over the other runners.
May she find peace.
Clearly a guy.
This human race is a very cruel scientific experiment of the ancient alien civilization. They just made sure we will fight against each other and vaporize ourselves in vain. No one wants to loose and no one wants to stand defeated. There are much greater things happening in this world but our useless human race here is trying to rip off one poor individual in envy of the championship title.... And this is how rebels are born!
Wat ever happened to doctor patient confidentiality?
the poor child shud be happy over her achievements.clearly this is not her first race, why now?
Looks like a dude in a dress to me. If the aligations are true, it's hard to say she doesn't have an unfair advantage. I'm all for an individuals privacy but sports competition should be on an even playing field.
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