"All that has been done is a redrafting of the text in guidelines regarding the start in a book called The Referee ... But to stress again, the IAAF Rule itself has not been changed." ...

A few hours earlier, however, IAAF president Sebastian Coe defended the new hyperandrogenism rule that could prevent Semenya precisely from competing in 800m and 1500m races by the end of the year.

The IAAF release comes in the wake of criticism from sports stars such as tennis player Rafael Nadal and a group of Olympic and world champion rowers claiming WADA's whereabouts rule is ...