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Top European court favors South Africa's Caster Semenya

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In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo South Africa's Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the gold medal in the final of the Women's 800m during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday ruled in favor of Caster Semenya, a South African Olympian, after international sporting bodies required female athletes with high natural testosterone to take drugs to lower it.

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