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Article: Semenya a hermaphrodite, Australian report says.(Sports)
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- September 11, 2009
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SYDNEY, September 11, 2009 (AFP) - Gender tests on South African athlete Caster Semenya have found she is a hermaphrodite, an Australian newspaper reported on Friday, as a senior official admitted she may not be "100 percent" female.Sydney'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 (IAAF), earlier told AFP that Semenya was "possibly between two sexes"."It is clear that she is a ...