Tag: The Race To Be Myself

Caster Semenya shares more about her book

It could easily be considered the most important race multi-Olympic winner Caster Semenya has ever partaken in – ‘The Race To Be Myself’. The highly anticipated autobiography has been released this Tuesday. The book tells a story of the gender-based discrimination and dehumanization the athlete faced as well as her life growing up. Despite all […]

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Caster Semenya’s interview with Gayle King on her book

In 2009, the world witnessed one of the most humiliating sporting stories when South Africa’s 800-metres Olympic champion Caster Semenya’s femininity was questioned by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) due to her masculine body structure. Caster had to undergo medical tests to prove that she was born a woman and to determine her […]

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