Caster Semenya quits athletics for football

South African gold medallist and 800m and 1500m World Champion, Caster Semenya, has joined a female football team, JVW Football Club, based in Gauteng, South Africa.

The Olympic hero has literally been frozen out of the tracks following the new rules put in place by the International Athletics body, IAAF, which does not allow Semenya to run alongside female colleagues.

According to a statement by her representatives, Semenya has always had a love for football, having played soccer at school and trained every day while growing up.

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