In April, the IAAF announced new rules requiring hyper-androgenous athletes to take medication to lower their testosterone levels, starting in November 2018. Rio 2016 Olympic 800 meter winner Caster Semenya was caught in the eye of the storm after some claimed, because of her body's biology, she had an unfair advantage, and this new rule is thought to be specifically aimed as her. The move was discussed at a conference in Pretoria, and that's where CGTN's Sias Du Plessis was.

The Caster Semenya case is not just about sport or gender, it is about ethics and science. It is by no means a simple case of science being the determining factor either, because if the science used by the IAAF is wrong and in fact manipulated to suit them, then the new regulations implemented are not only cruel, but discriminatory and need to be changed.

SHANI BARTLETT CONFERENCE ORGANIZER "As we know 1st of November regulations are coming in to act so this conference is there to start up a conversation again and get people talking again when the regulations were first announced."

The 27-year-old has been a dominant force since bursting onto the scene in 2008, but despite her success, the girl from Limpopo was shunned and calls grew for the IAAF to ban her from competing because she clearly had an unfair advantage.

MADELEINE PAPE FORMER 800 METER RUNNER "I am ashamed to say that I didn't respect her as I should have in 2009 when I competed against her but now I just have such enormous and unreserved respect for Caster Semenya, because I think what she has achieved as athlete given the pressure she is under is absolutely extraordinary and she is an amazing role model for our sport."

The 800m world champion's legal team which includes Professor Steve Cornelius who resigned from the IAAF's Disciplinary Tribunal as a result of the new regulations will need to have a unique approach at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

DR. SEEMA PATEL NOTTINGHAM-TRENT UNIVERSITY LECTURER "We need to differentiate legal with sport, CAS are a sport court not a law court so the approach is going to be different if she was bringing it in a law court, but I think she should have a proper look at the previous precedent of Dutee Chand perhaps also the previous case of Oscar Pistorius who also challenged his right to compete as well because it is about discrimination."

It is unclear who is responsible for monitoring the members of the IAAF who devised the controversial new regulations as they are prejudicial to athletes and clearly fall into a legal loophole as it is the third life line the IAAF has been granted on the hyperandrogenism matter.

BIANCA KAPP PRACTICING CANDIDATE ATTORNEY "No one is regulating the legislators of this legislation and policies so in time if no one takes the steps to do that it is going to be continuous cycle so yes, my short answer is yes, it will come to an end because it is obviously prejudicial but it is not the end of it."

SIAS DU PLESSIS PRETORIA "The IAAF's new regulations have certainly raised eyebrows and with Caster Semenya at the centre of the storm has prompted discussions like these, the big talking points why is the IAAF targeting athletes like Caster Semenya and is the Court of Arbitration for Sport in fact the right place for this matter to be decided, Sias du Plessis, CGTN, Pretoria."