What Is Fairness In Sports? with Caster Semenya

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Self-improvement, Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week’s guest has not one, but TWO Olympic gold medals. Middle-distance runner Caster Semenya joins Jonathan to discuss what fairness in athletics really looks like. From her experience undergoing public scrutiny to her favorite sport to watch on TV, we learn all about this amazing Olympian and her fight to be allowed to compete. Caster Semenya, OIB, is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women’s 800 meters. The Race to Be Myself is her debut memoir. She lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with her wife, Violet Raseboya, and their children. You can follow Caster on Instagram @castersemenya800m and Twitter @MightyCaster. You can follow W.W. Norton on Instagram @w.w.norton and Twitter @wwnorton. Caster’s memoir The Race to Be Myself is available now via W.W. Norton or wherever books are sold. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious In Curious
0:06.1	I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:10.3	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:15.0	Now if you've been listening to getting curious or if you just know me at all,
0:18.0	you will know that I love the Olympics.
0:21.0	I love the Olympics so freaking much. I literally don't know what to do with my gay
0:24.5	self. We've covered gymnastics, we've covered figure skating, we've covered diving, and today we're taking a lap around the
0:31.6	track to talk about middle distance running,
0:34.4	sportsmanship, and gender regulations with an Olympian who needs no introduction.
0:39.4	But we're going to do one anyway.
0:41.2	Welcome to the show, Kaster Semenya, who is a middle distance runner from South Africa.
0:46.4	She earned a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships for the Women's 1500 meter and is a not
0:52.0	one but two-time Olympic gold medalist in the women's 800
0:57.7	meter. Her new memoir The Race to Be Myself is out now.
1:01.3	Kaster, welcome to getting curious, how are you?
1:04.0	Thank you, thank you for having me.
1:06.0	I'm doing great, fantastic.
1:08.0	I'm in a happy space.
1:10.0	Thank you.
1:12.0	I love you being in a happy space. Now I have to tell you, I really am a rabid Olympics
1:19.1	super-fan. I think it's because in South Africa on like TV before like a sporting event,
1:27.2	do they do those little like videos where it'll be like it'd be like a video of you
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