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In the last two years, South African runner Caster Semenya hasn’t shown the 800m form that made her famous, when she took gold at the 2009 World Championships and silver at the 2011 Worlds and 2012 Olympics, and led to a gender-test controversy.
Semenya, 24, hasn’t registered an 800m time yet this year and ranked No. 139 in the world last year, clocking 2:02.66 for 10th place at a meet in Rome on June 5 (she won the 2009 World title in 1:55.45).
In 2013, she failed to qualify for the World Championships and has also dealt with injury and a coaching change since the London 2012 Games.