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Indian gender challenged athlete Santhi prays Semenya doesn't get suicidal like her |
Considering her bitter experience after
she failed her gender test, Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan prays that South
Africa's champion runner Caster Semenya doesn't considers suicide. Soundarajan
failed a gender test after finishing second in the women's 800-meter race at the
2006 Asian Games and was forced to return her silver medal. Semenya, the 800-metre
world champion who is also going through the same type of test to prove that she
is eligible to compete as a woman, is facing the same future. "I pray that Semenya
does not go through what I've been through, it almost drove me to committing suicide,"
the Sunday Express quoted Soundarajan, as saying. "I've suffered immensely due
to the stigma of the failed gender test," she added Soundarajan, who came from
a poor family, was forced to drop out of competitive athletics after she failed
the gender test. Finding a job and earning enough money to eat then became a daily
struggle. Semenya also comes from a poor background, but she managed to win the
world 800m in one minute 55.45 seconds. "With so much of the workload athletes
go through, there will be hormonal changes. It's bound to happen. The authorities
should bear this in mind. I cannot forget what I had to go through after my medal
was taken back. I hail from a poor family and no one would give me a job," Soundarajan
said. "My entire family suffered as people began looking at me with a jaundiced
eye," she added. |
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