JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Runner Caster Semenya was subjected to humiliating tests in South Africa even before a gender row erupted over her world championship victory last month, a South African newspaper reported.
South African athletics officials have accused the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, of creating controversy by ordering gender tests on Semenya, who crushed opponents in the women's 800 metres at the world championships in Berlin.
"The tests took almost two hours and Semenya became frustrated and even angry over the humiliating nature of the tests," Afrikaans daily Beeld quoted Athletics South Africa's (ASA) former head coach Wilfred Daniels as saying of the tests carried out in South Africa (see report).
Beeld said Semenya was "bitterly upset" when photographs of her private parts were taken during the examinations.
"Her feet were in stirrups when the photographs were taken," Daniels said.
ASA officials were not immediately available for comment on the report.