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Indian sprinter Dutee Chand: 'I lost my honour in gender case'

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand reveals that she suffered regular "abuse" after she was banned for failing a 'gender test'.

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has revealed that she suffered regular "abuse" after she was banned last summer for failing a 'gender test'.

Earlier this week, Chand's ban was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which has suspended the "hyperandrogenism" rules.

The 19-year-old has now been cleared to race and is already targeting a spot at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

"I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man," BBC Sport quotes Chand as saying. "All the honour I earned, I lost.

"My friends used to start asking what's wrong with me, and started to avoid me. In training centres, where girls used to share rooms, I was kept separately.

"When I got to know the judgement, I can't tell you how I felt. I am happy that no-one else will have to hear all the abuse that I had to hear."

CAS will scrap the 'gender test' altogether unless the International Association of Athletics Federation can find new evidence.

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Dutee Chand waves to the crowd after their race on the fifth and the final day of the Asian Athletics Championship 2013 at the Chatrapati Shivaji Stadium in Pune on July 7, 2013
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