The father of women's world champion athlete, Caster Semenya insists: "She is my little girl."
Caster Semenya, 18, is undergoing a gender test to prove she is female after beating her rivals by a huge margin to win the gold medal in the world championship 800 metres in Berlin.
Family, friends and teachers at her home in South Africa recalled how Semenya played football with boys, wore trousers instead of skirts and endured teasing by her peers. But all asserted that she is definitely a woman.
Semenya, who has a muscular build and deep voice, aroused suspicions recently with a dramatic improvement in performance. She went from a virtual unknown to the world's fastest woman over 800m this year when she clocked 1:56.72 at the African junior championships in Mauritius. She sliced more than a second off that with her winning time of 1:55.45 in Berlin on Wednesday.
It's a fair decision by officials to put Semenya through the gender test as I was as shocked as most others when I saw her clocking the winning time on TV.
When her parents and admirers are so confident of Semenya being a girl, why worry and cry about the gender test?
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