South Africa’s Castor Semenya scales back schedule ahead of Olympics

Semenya’s training is geared towards the London Olympics, which start in July, and Harkonen said that as long as his charge stayed fit she had every chance of winning gold in the 800m.

“Anything is possible as long as she stays healthy. Last year Caster had a few small problems in Daegu and we were very lucky she ran such great times. She had a lower back problem that we kept quiet.”

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