Caster Semenya won two Olympic gold medals in her preferred distance, the women's 800 metres, before being banned in 2019 over her refusal to take hormone-surpressing drugs.

Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending a seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field, her lawyers said Thursday, despite winning a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights in July that appeared to have reignited one of sports’ most contentious cases.

Patrick Bracher, a lawyer for Semenya, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that they wouldn’t take her appeal back to the Swiss supreme court, which was an option and what many presumed to be Semenya’s next step after the European rights court ruling.

“Caster’s legal challenge reached the highest possible court with a

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