Semenya criticizes IOC chief Coventry after transgender athletes barred

Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with International Committee President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender athletes from competing at the Olympics. Semenya, who is South African, said she expected more from a woman leader like 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 press conference after a women’s race promoted to celebrate female strength, unity and community support in Cape Town.