Hyderabad: Caster Semenya has made it clear that she is not going to retire from athletics despite signing for South Africa football club JVW.
The two-time Olympic 800-metre champion signed for JVW this week and will make her debut in the SAFA Sasol Women's League in 2020.
But the 28-year-old categorically ruled out any possibility of her retirement from track and field.
"Being a footballer doesn't mean I'm no longer a track and field athlete," she wrote on Twitter. "Just making things clear."
Semenya will miss the World Athletics Championships scheduled to take place later this month after a Swiss court reversed prior rulings that allowed her to compete while she appealed against controversial IAAF regulations.
The South African is the defending champion in women's 800m. But she will not be able to participate in track and field event due to the new verdict.
Semenya was allowed to race without restriction after filing an appeal with the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (SFT) against the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) verdict in her case against the IAAF.
CAS' verdict stated that IAAF could implement a regulation that would require Semenya to take medication to lower her testosterone levels to take part in women's track events ranging from 400m to a mile.
In July, a judge overturned the SFT's decision to allow Semenya to compete while it assessed the case.
