Caster Semenya's absence casts shadow over 800m as Halimah Nakaayi wins gold at World...

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At the Rio Olympics, the event produced an exclusively intersex podium, with Semenya taking gold ahead of Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui of Kenya. Here in Doha, the terms of engagement were medically and politically redrawn, as the International Association of Athletics Federations sought to show that they had levelled the playing field. This time, it was Uganda's Halimah Nakaayi who profited from the changes, the 24-year-old contriving a stunning late burst to outrun the American duo of Raevyn Rogers and Ajee Wilson.

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