Caster Semenya plans to play competitive soccer next year. Whether she races on the track again is unknown.
Semenya, the two-time Olympic 800m champion, said she signed with a South African club with the intent to play competitive matches in 2020. She played the sport in her youth before becoming a world champion in 2009 at age 18.
“I am looking forward to this new journey, and hopefully I can contribute as much as I can to the club,” she said, according to a press release.
Semenya made this move after a Swiss court ruled in late July that she can’t in her best events while she appeals a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision that upheld the IAAF’s new rule that bars her.