Honestly, I don’t understand all the confusion surrounding the sex status of that poor little South African athlete Caster Semanya who has hit the international limelight since her gold winning show in the 800 metres event in the recent world athletics championships.

The high-tech people who can tell us the mortals what is inside the belly of an ant say 18 year- old Semanya has some of the primary sex characteristics of both men and women.

An investigation has been conducted to find out the truth of the matter and now the talk in some quarters is the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) has violated Semanya’s rights and privacy. I don’t buy this argument.

The young girl is now a public figure just like any of those international athletes who undergo random drug tests by the IAAF and she should be treated as such.

To my mind, this is a straight forward case. Semanya has been brought up over the years as female and she acknowledges that she is a woman. Indeed, that explains why she has been running in her favourite women’s 800 metres event. If moon age science has detected that she has some additional features of a man and this could be worked on to make her a complete woman, why should we waste time debating the issue and making the poor girl feeling insecure?

The media has quoted some experts as saying that Semanya can be treated in some way if she consents to it and in time she can return to competition. I am all in support of this treatment. From all indications, one can deduce that the young lady would like to be a famous athlete. I am therefore forming immediately a Semanya Fan Club. The club is going to launch an international crusade to get Caster Semanya agree to undertake any treatment that would make her return to the tracks. We love Semanya and we will fight against any veiled attempt by anybody to rob Africa of such a talented athlete.

It is time the IAAF made a definite statement on this matter. It should be devoid of flowery language and straight to the point just like the way Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been speaking of late.

The other day when Rooney was fouled in the box during the Manchester United- Arsenal premiership football match, Wenger said there was something Old Traffordish about the penalty. Quite a loaded statement if you ask me.

And defending Eduardo for diving in an European league qualifying match against Celtic, the adroit manager said when a player goes down it is not always because he wants to cheat, it could be a foul but he just makes more of it.

Having put up such a good defence, Arsene Wenger adds rather sarcastically, “I feel in England the personality of the player who does it is more important than the importance of the foul and the cheating”.

When Eboue was punished for deliberate handling of the ball in the match against Wigan, Wenger’s reaction was “some players get away with things and others don’t”

I admire the way Wenger is shielding his players these days very much like Sir Alex of Manchester United who hardly faults his players. But the veteran manager would be the first to admit that Rio Ferdinand’s pathetic show against Manchester City last Sunday, giving away two cheap goals is definitely beyond pardon. I can bet with my last Ghana cedi that a repeat of such sordid show could cost Rio an England shirt for South Africa 2010 just as a repeat horrible show by Kumasi Asante Kotoko on the last day of the just ended Top 4 tournament could have led to a massive shake up in the club.

Kotoko’s hard fought 1-0 revenge victory over traditional rivals Accra Hearts of Oak at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra has given the team a new lease of life and supporters can conveniently ignore the poor off season record of losing five matches on the trot.

The pundits will tell you it is such inconsistencies by highly rated performers that make sports an exciting pastime. So cheers everybody and keep loving sports.