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The race to be myself : a memoir / Caster Semenya.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781324035770
  • 1324035773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.42092 B 23/eng/20231018
LOC classification:
  • GV1061.15.S37 A3 2023
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--
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"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--

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