Off the Record takes on gender

11-19-2009

Contact:
Jill Geer
Chief Public Affairs Officer
USA Track & Field
508-520-1529

On Wednesday, the IAAF announced that Caster Semenya is "still undergoing gender tests," which means that one of the most talked-about stories in all of sport, since it first made headlines at the World Championships in Berlin, is still without an ending. USATF Chief Public Affairs Officer Jill Geer wades into the political minefield that is the Caster Semenya affair in her latest Off the Record blog, entitled "The myth of fairness meets the question of gender".To read the blog, or to sign up to receive at RSS feed of all "Off the Record" blogs, visit https://www.usatf.org/about/leadership/OffTheRecordBlog/