Athletics South Africa Suspended by Governing Body

South Africa's Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya's gender tests.

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee said in a statement it was suspending the track organization immediately.

The action comes after Athletics South Africa's attorneys sent a letter saying the decision by the committee a day earlier to suspend the ASA president Leonard Chuene and board was "unreasonable" and "unfair."

The Olympic committee said the letter indicated ASA "will not respect (its) directives and/or resolutions."

Semenya won the 800-meters at the world championships at Berlin in August after the IAAF said it had ordered gender tests. Chuene later said he lied about his knowledge of the tests.

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