Caster Semenya

Two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya has joined a South African women's football team.

The 28-year-old is unable to compete without taking testostorone-reducing drugs following a rule change by IAAF, athletics' governing body.

It means she can't defend her 800m World Championship title in Doha this month - though she is fighting the courts.

She is now training with Gauteng-based women's football club JVW.

The three-time World Champion, who announced in July that she would not defend her 800m world title, cannot start playing for JVW until 2020 season, having joined outside the South African transfer window.

"I am looking forward to this new journey, I appreciate the love and support I already get from the team," Semenya told the club website.

SOURCE: https://www.tori.ng