Caster shares intimate details about what effect the media had on her personally, as well as on her athletic career. Sports Illustrated also reveals the shocking treatment she was subjected to by Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) in order to establish her gender, in repeated violation of the Olympic Movement Medical Code.
This is the real Caster Semenya story, as told by Caster Semenya herself. For the first time, by reframing the narrative from the athlete's perspective, Sports Illustrated takes the reader on a journey into what it means to be a teenage global sportswoman whose private life was ripped apart when her human rights were trampled underfoot in the frenzy that followed her world championship gold medal, and how Semenya has rebuilt her life and rejoined international competition.
The November issue of Sports Illustrated is on sale now and also features this year's Swimwear shoot in Mauritius with gorgeous Candice Boucher on the cover. Also in this issue is a special feature on the sport of mixed martial arts, and how its popularity in South Africa is growing at a rapid rate.
