Caster Semenya 800m world champion is a hermaphrodite

Gender tests on South African athlete Caster Semenya have found she is a hermaphrodite, an Australian newspaper reported, as a senior official admitted she may not be "100 per cent" femaleSydney's Daily Telegraph, citing an unnamed source involved in the tests on the world 800m champion, said she had both male and female sex organs and no womb or ovaries.

"There certainly is evidence Semenya is a hermaphrodite," the source was quoted as saying.

Pierre Weiss, secretary-general of the International Association of Athletics Federations, earlier told AFP that Semenya was "possibly between two sexes"."It is clear that she is a woman but maybe not 100 per cent," Weiss said, adding that the case would be decided by the IAAF executive council in November.

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