Sports law chatter this week has been dominated by the decision of the IAAF — the world governing body of athletics — to release its regulations on Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development, writes Jack Anderson.

Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels or move up to longer distances as a result of new rules announced today.

Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels or move up to longer distances as a result of new rules which will be announced on Thursday, it's understood.

It was predicted. That didn’t make it any less impressive, or any less contentious.

South African police may have altered the scene and planted weapons after they shot dead 34 striking miners near Lonmin’s Marikana mines in August, according to a lawyer reviewing photographic evidence presented at a commission of inquiry into the killings.

Usain Bolt brought the track action at London 2012 to a fittingly brilliant close tonight, anchoring the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to gold in a new world record.

Caster Semenya is looking forward to running in the London Olympics with the controversy that dogged her 2009 World Championships win behind her.

South Africa’s athletics chief Leonard Chuene has been dismissed after being found guilty of financial corruption and mishandling the gender case of world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya.

THE South African athlete forced to undergo a gender verification test after taking the 2009 World Championships by storm has set her sights on a comeback.

World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been named in the South Africa team for October’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Caster Semenya is relishing the prospect of returning to Berlin’s Olympic Stadium after “11 really hard months” in which she was left out in the cold after doubts about her gender.

Caster Semenya will return to Berlin’s Olympic Stadium later this month – the venue where the furore over her gender began almost a year ago.

CASTER SEMENYA has spoken of her delight at being able to return to the track after the International Association of Athletics Federations gave her the all-clear to resume her career.

South African athlete Caster Semenya can return to competition with immediate effect, the IAAF have confirmed.

World 800m champion Caster Semenya will have to wait a little longer before learning whether she will be allowed to compete again after undergoing a gender test.

Caster Semenya is expected to finally learn whether she can resume her athletics career when South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation hosts a press conference in Johannesburg this afternoon.

International Association of Athletics Federations president Lamine Diack today confirmed there will be a resolution to the gender row surrounding Caster Semenya by the end of June.

WORLD 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been left out of a preliminary South Africa squad to compete at the African Athletics Championships in Kenya later this year.

World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has confirmed she will return to competitive action on June 24 in Spain.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) have reiterated their position that Caster Semenya cannot compete until the results of her gender tests are known.

Caster Semenya's future in athletics remained under a cloud today after it was revealed no further progress had been been made in ascertaining her gender status.

Caster Semenya’s lawyers have described as “nonsense” media reports they are planning to sue the International Association of Athletics Federations and Athletics South Africa for multi-million-euro sums.

THE International Association of Athletics Federations insist no deal has been struck allowing Caster Semenya to keep her World Championships 800 metres gold medal.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has insisted no deal has been struck allowing Caster Semenya to keep her World Championships 800 metres gold medal.

Caster Semenya has received an unconditional apology from Athletics South Africa for their role in the row regarding the athlete's gender.

Three-time British Olympian Christina Boxer hopes athletics will learn some hard lessons from the Caster Semenya affair.

South African athletics chief Leonard Chuene insists he will not "jump ship" after admitting he knew Caster Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the World Championships.

SOUTH AFRICA’S sports minister, Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile, has threatened a “third world war” should the International Association of Athletics Federations ban world champion Caster Semenya.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has urged caution over reports emanating from Australia which suggest 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite.

NEW 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya arrived back in South Africa to fresh controversy yesterday over levels of testosterone in her body three times higher than considered normal for women.

New women's 800m world champion Caster Semenya arrived back in South Africa to fresh controversy today over levels of testosterone in her body three times higher than normal for women.

South Africans were today showing their support for the champion runner embroiled in a gender controversy, as they gathered to greet her return flight.

As far as Semenya’s father is concerned, Caster is his girl, writes Dan Buckley.

NEW WORLD 800 metres champion Caster Semenya faces further scrutiny over her gender, with one of her competitors yesterday saying bluntly: “She’s a man.”

The mother of new 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya has no doubt over her child's gender and claims she is not worried despite an official IAAF investigation being launched to look into the matter.

SOUTH AFRICA’S Caster Semenya, the subject of an official investigation into her gender, last night won gold in the 800 metres at the World Championships in Berlin.