Questions have been raised about the gender of an African sprinter. Her mother tries to clear the air.

Speaking from her home in the rural village of Seshego, near Polokwane in South Africa's Limpopo province, the mother-of-six told South Africa's Star newspaper: "If you go at my home village and ask any of my neighbours, they would tell you that Mokgadi is a girl... They know because they helped raise her.