The Cast(er) Away.

Nicholas Tatham

Caster, Caster, Caster. I am very sure that everyone has heard more than enough about this whole issue and I couldn’t agree more. But yesterday I was browsing through the Times website and I came across a Zapirio comic, that for me summed up the whole issue. He showed in the comic that the people in charge of the whole issue seemed to look at Semenya not as a human but as something without feelings or anything else. Athletics South Africa looked at the whole issue from their perspective and nothing else because they saw a gold medal opportunity and nothing else. I am sure that they were fully aware of the consequences that were going to arise from the whole issue yet they still didn’t take that into consideration and went ahead with allowing her to compete. The reaction from the IAAF and the ‘western society’ was also outrageous. I couldn’t believe their reaction to the whole issue and they seemed to show a complete disregard for the competitor herself and for how she might react to the whole issue. And then finally I actually wasn’t that surprised actually when Julias Malema got his dirty nose involved and made the despicable comment that the word ‘hermaphrodite’ doesn’t exist in his native tongue so therefore the condition doesn’t exist! Throughout this whole issue no one seems to realise that a career has been destroyed even before it started, a bright young star is unable to compete. People should have realised this a long time ago and actually let her know before she had a taste of professional competition.

Yours in Sport
Tucky

Link:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/article39508.ece

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Let’s put it to bed, Caster you still a hero in our eyes!