Category Archives: Ethics & Sports

La vicenda di Caster Semenya, Capitolo #2: la IAAF e il tentativo del 2011 di porre un limite ai livelli di testosterone nella categoria femminile

La vicenda di Caster Semenya è una vicenda estremamente complessa che va avanti da Berlino agosto 2009 quando la sua medaglia d’oro negli 800 metri viene revocata e inizia un’indagine della IAAF sul suo genere.

La medaglia le viene riconsegnata dopo 11 mesi, ma nell’aprile del 2011, la IAAF introduce le Regole sull’iperandrogenismo. Queste regole affermano che livelli di testosterone endogeno superiori a 10 nMOl/Lit in atlete forniscono un vantaggio iniquo .

Quindi, alle atlete che hanno livelli di testosterone maggiore di 10 nMOL/lit , compresa Caster Semenya (e che non hanno resistenza agli androgeni) viene richiesto di assumere una terapia farmacologica mirata a sopprimere gli androgeni almeno due anni consecutivi, prima di poter essere considerate idonee a rientrare in competizione nella categoria femminile.

Queste regole, dopo essere state sospese nel 2015, furono poi reintrodotte nel 2018 in una versione modificata (ne parleremo in altro post), e sono ancora in vigore. L’onere della prova di dimostrare di non ricevere un vantaggio da livelli elevati di testosterone ricade sull’atleta che, senza un supporto finanziario forte, non può fare appello al Tribunale di Arbitraggio per lo Sport (TAS) con sede a Losanna, che dirime le questioni di diritto sportivo internazionale.

Caster Semenya, priva del supporto economico necessario per appellarsi al TAS, assume farmaci e rientra a competere. È nel 2014 che un’altra atleta, la velocista indiana Dutee Chand, farà appello al Tribunale per Arbitraggio dello Sport.

Stay tuned: ne parleremo nel prossimo post.

#castersemenya #duteechand #testosterone #iperandrogenismo #hyperandrogenism #humanrights #ECHR #IAAF #World Athletics #SebCoe #fairness #ethics #sport

IMPORTANT!

Here you can download the original IAAF documents on Hyperandrogenism Regulations (they have been taken off website since suspension of regulation in July 2015 following CAS ruling)

IAAF guidelines Eligibility Hyperandrogenism May 2011

IAAF Hyperandrogenism Regulations – Appendices

Keynote at Leuven EAPS/BPSA Conference:”Uses and abuses of the concept of race in sports genomics: epistemological and ethical considerations”

…for those of you interested in philosophy, ethics and sport, the joint EAPS/BPSA annual conference is going on in Leuven. the full conference programme is available here.

I gave a keynote lecture yesterday on the ‘Uses and abuses of the concept of race in sports genomics: epistemological and ethical considerations” and the presentation can be found here.

#keynote #philosophyofsport #epistemology #ethics #race #genomics

Keynote talk & Call for Abstracts European Philosophy of Sport/British Philosophy of Sport Annual Conference: KU Leuven March 30th-April 1st, 2023

Delighted to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers at the 2023 joint EAPS/BPSA annual conference in Leuven March 30th-April 1st

I’ll be speaking about epistemological and ethical issues of the use of biological concepts of race in sports genomics

#philosophyofsport#race#ethics&sport #genomics#humanperformance#mismeasure

Conference announcement 

European Association for the Philosophy of Sport, in association with the British Philosophy of Sport Association 

Venue:  KU Leuven, Belgium https://www.kuleuven.be/english/kuleuven   

Date: 30th March to 1st April, 2023

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: 

Dr Irena Martinkova, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in https://ftvs.cuni.cz/FTVSEN-241.html  

Prof Thomas Schramme  Dept. of Philosophy, Liverpool University 

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/thomas-schramme/

Dr Silvia Camporesi Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Vienna 

https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/visiting-scholars/

Call for Papers 

Presentations will be twenty minutes with ten minutes for questions and discussion. 

Guidelines for Abstract Submission 
• Send abstract (200-300 words) as soon as possible – final submission date: 15th Jan 2023 (Sunday) 
• Decisions communicated by 1st February 2023 
• Required format is MS Word Times New Roman 12pt, single spacing, no auto-formatting, ‘normal’ margins – as per attached example – with name, institution, abstract, max 5 keywords. 3-5 items of indicative bibliography; brief personal details – all to fit on one side of A4. 
 
• Abstracts to be submitted to s.j.parry@leeds.ac.uk with the formulaic filename as follows:   <ABSTRACT – surname – title> 

For further information regarding the academic programme contact Dr. Andrew Edgar, edgar@cardiff.ac.uk 

For further information regarding the conference logistics see here:

http://philosophyofsport.org.uk/events/http://philosophyofsport.org.uk/events/