Di two Namibian athletes drop down from di m event wey dem want after World Athletics bodi bin tell dem say their testosterone level pass di limit dem fit allow for female athletes to compete over that distance, unless dem medically lower their testosterone for like six months. Nigeria's Blessing Oborududu celebrates winning her semi-final in the women's freestyle. Nigeria Blessing Oborududu win silver as she lose to USA Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah for di final of di women 68kg freestyle event to gbab her nation first ever Olympic wrestling medal.
Di year-old lose on points to di American for di bout. Di year-old medal na di first one for Ghana since di men football team win bronze for di Games in Barcelona.
Ghana other three Olympic medals all come in boxing wit Clement Quartey winning a silver in , Eddie Blay and Prince Amartey claim bronzes at di and Games. Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei right and his compatriot Jacob Kiplimo left both reached the final of the men's 5,m at the Tokyo Olympics. Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda wey dey right and im kontri man Jacob Kiplimo for left both reach di final of di men 5,m at di Tokyo Olympics.
Joshua Cheptegei jeje enter final of di men 5,m as im dey reason e second medal for Tokyo games, after e win silver in di me 10,m on Friday. Im kontri man Jacob Kiplimo, di bronze medallist from di 10,m, finish just ahead of Cheptegei as dem both progress finish for top five of di second heat. Ethiopia Milkesa Mengesha be sixth for di same heat, e gbab place of fastest loser but Lesiba Mashele of South Africa no dey quick enough to advance while Kenya Samwel Masai no even start.
Kenya's Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli win di first heat as e qualify automatically for di final, wit Uganda Oscar Chelimo also progressing in fourth. Liberia American-born Joe Fahnbulleh set new national record as e qualify automatically for Wednesday men m final. Di year-old pip USA world champion Noah Lyles on di line for second place for photo finish in their semi-final, di two men given Nigeria Divine Oduduru manage third for di first semi-final just ahead of Ghana's Joseph Amoah but di two men no record enough time to progress as fastest losers.
Bronze for Ese Brume. It was also the fastest time in the world this year ahead of all the event's big names, and the fastest time in the world since Masilingi's The Namibian Olympic body said it was in close contact with World Athletics' medical officer Stephane Bermon, one of the architects of the testosterone rules, "with regards to the way forward in the interest of our two sprinters.
The situation is reminiscent of the highly controversial sex verification tests conducted on a teenage Semenya when she broke onto the international scene at the world championships in Berlin.
World Athletics' latest testosterone regulations have been fiercely debated since they were introduced in They have resulted in Semenya, the two-time Olympic champion, being unable to run in her favorite event and defend her title in Tokyo. She has launched legal appeals in various courts, calling the rules unfair and discriminatory, but has lost two of those appeals and is waiting for a third to be heard. The rules have also affected two other high-profile African athletes, Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and Margaret Wambui of Kenya, who won silver and bronze behind Semenya at the Olympics, where the testosterone issue became a dominant story.
If we're willing to extend benefits of doubts, we can view the trend as an unfortunate coincidence. Otherwise, we can view the testosterone rule as one more half-baked regulation created in the toxic place where sexism and racism overlap. Its mechanism is different, but its spirit is the same as the FINA rule outlawing swim caps designed to fit Black women's hair , or the IOC cracking down on podium protests and Black Lives Matter gear.
Run fast, but not too fast, lest you exceed some gatekeeper's expectations, trigger their suspicion and move them to act against you.
Show too much speed and officials might ask you to take drugs to slow yourself down. But not marijuana. They'll ban you for that, too. Big picture, spectators lose. We won't get to see how teenage prodigy Mboma stacks up against established pros like Allyson Felix and Shaunnae Miller-Uibo in their preferred event. The sport loses. Olympic finals should pit the best against the best, and that can't happen if the owner of the world's fastest time can't even line up.
And Mboma and Masilingi lose the most. Even World Athletics would acknowledge neither of them has cheated. They were simply written out of the rules, which is even more demeaning. In he won the National Newspaper Award for "Long Shots," a serial narrative about a high school basketball team from Scarborough. Later created, hosted and co-produced "Sportonomics," a weekly video series examining the business of Sport.
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