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Runner Semenya, SAfricans dismiss gender uproar

BERLIN (AP) — A day after winning her first 800-meter world title amid a gender test controversy, South African teenager Caster Semenya's father dismissed any speculation his daughter is not a woman.

The 18-year-old runner's father, Jacob, tells the Sowetan newspaper: "she is my little girl. ... I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million...

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