Johannesburg, Sep.16 (ANI): Sex test runner Caster Semenya is “completely shattered” by claims she is half male, her spokeswoman said.
The 800m world champion has shut herself away at her university amid claims that International Association of Athletics Federations gender tests proved she had internal testes and no womb, reports The Mirror.
Athletics South Africa official Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said she was struggling to come to terms with being humiliated on a global scale and has been placed on suicide watch.
She said: “Caster is completely shattered by all that has been said about her.
“She gets all the newspapers and reads them thoroughly. She has cable TV in her bedroom so there is no escape from all of this.”
The saga began four weeks ago at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin when the South African’s masculine looks and superb performances sparked talk that she might be male. (ANI)
Here is what Obama reads before he sleeps
Washington, May 18 (ANI): U.S. President Barack Obama has revealed that he is presently reading a book by Joseph O’Neill, titled ‘Netherland’.
He has revealed that reading the book for a half hour forms part of his daily schedule-which includes morning workouts, office work, and spending time with his family.
“I’m a night owl. My usual day (is): I work out in the morning; I get to the office around 9, 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.; work till about 6:30 p.m.; have dinner with the family, hang out with the kids and put them to bed about 8:30 p.m. And then I’ll probably read briefing papers or do paperwork or write stuff until about 11:30 p.m., and then I usually have about a half hour to read before I go to bed … about midnight, 12:30 a.m.-sometimes a little later,” News Week quoted the President as saying.
As to what the book is about, Obama revealed: “It’s about after 9/11, a guy-his family leaves him and he takes up cricket in New York. And it’s fascinating. It’s a wonderful book, although I know nothing about cricket.”
Obama also revealed that he did not watch cable news at all.
He said that the only thing he watched on TV was sports.
However, the President does enjoy films, with the latest seen by him being Star Trek.
“Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theatre on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good,” he said.
When asked whether he watched Star Trek when he was growing up, he said: “I used to love Star Trek. You know, Star Trek was ahead of its time. There was a whole-the special effects weren’t real good, but the storylines were always evocative, you know, there was a little commentary and a little pop philosophy for a 10-year-old to absorb.” (ANI)