Caster Semenya: Has missed most of this season with a knee injuryOlympic silver medalist Caster Semenya looks likely to miss next month's World Championships.The 22-year-old 800m runner has been left off an initial list of an initial list of South African athletes to compete in Moscow, having only just run for the first time since the London Olympics because of a knee injury.
On Wednesday, Semenya won a race in Finland in 2 minutes, 6.58 seconds and has only 10 days to record a qualifying time of 2:00 or better to make the World Championships.
If Semenya does indeed miss the event she will be the latest star name to do so.
Algerian Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi has withdrawn having failed to recover from a viral infection to joins the likes of David Rushida - the Olympic 800m champion - and Yohan Blake in missing the Moscow event.
Makhloufi was a controversial figure in London last year. He was disqualified from the Games for not making a "boda fide effort" during his 800m heat in order to preserve his energy for the 1500m final.
He appealed and produced a doctor's certificate which said he had an injury, and he was subsequently reinstated and went on to win gold.
He was taken ill in January in Ethiopa and has struggled since, finishing in eleventh in a Diamond League meeting in Eugene last month.
Women's 1,500 metres champion, Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey, will also miss the world championships after failing a drugs test.
Leading sprinters Tyson Gay of the United States and Jamaica's Asafa Powell are also out after drugs test failures.
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