FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Diamond League - Monaco - Stade Louis II, Monaco - July 20, 2018 South Africa's Caster Semenya wins the Women's 800m REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Double Olympic 800-metres champion Caster Semenya is "optimistic" of success in her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over eligibility regulations in athletics for female classification.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) contends that Semenya and other female athletes that are classed as having differences in sexual development (DSDs) gain an unfair advantage due to their higher testosterone levels, but only in races between 400 and 1,000-metres.
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