Johannesburg: South Africa's Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya's gender tests.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee said in a statement it was suspending the track organization immediately.
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The action comes after Athletics South Africa's attorneys sent a letter saying the decision by the committee a day earlier to suspend the ASA president Leonard Chuene and board was "unreasonable" and "unfair."
The Olympic committee said the letter indicated ASA "will not respect (its) directives and/or resolutions."
Semenya won the 800-meters at the world championships at Berlin in August after the IAAF said it had ordered gender tests. Chuene later said he lied about his knowledge of the tests.
