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IAAF seeks gender definitions

Associated Press

Saturday, October 10, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, England -- World track and field's governing body will start examining next week how to determine gender in an athletics context, an initiative spurred by the case of 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya. The IAAF's medical commission, which begins meeting Friday, could take a year to deliver that definition and the judicial commission will also be asked to consider future regulations, general secretary Pierre Weiss said Saturday. "We are obliged to react. It would have been bet ...

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