Current world silver medallist, Caster Semenya, had an easy first run in her debut Olympic Games on Wednesday.
Semenya, 21, finished second in the 800m heat in a time of 2:00.71. Alysia Johnson (US) was fast out the start and held a comfortable lead for the entire race, slowing down in the last 50m to finish in 2:00:47.
According to Road2London, Caster thought “The pace was OK…but I think we’ll have to go quicker than two minutes in the semi.”
Semenya will compete in the semi-finals on Thursday evening at 20:30.
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What an outrageous fraud. Did you see how “she” Caster Semenya performed at the London Olympics. “She” could have won gold at that 800 m final easily. Any runner can tell that. “She” kicks like only a male athlete can kick which was demonstrated both in the 800 m Semi Finals and Final. You can clearly see “she” generates far greater power from the hips than all the 800 m finalists. Can’t you see how quickly she can accelerate ? in a field of top level women 800m athletes.
You can also see that she was just jogging around the track at a leisurely pace and then was able to turn on the power at will. That’s the power of testosterone of a male. Women aren’t designed like that and generally can’t output power like that. I bet the only reason “she” did not win gold, was be cause it would be too controversial, so “she decided to limit her performance.
Allowing this along with that other athlete Oscar Pistorius ( who has technology not available to other abled body competitors that can be tweaked to get the performance as desired ) to compete in the main events, is not only unfair to other athletes, but it will destroy athletics if it’s allowed to continue.