Mokgadi Caster Semenya photographed for Out magazine

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A color photograph of Mokgadi Caster Semenya captured by Dana Scruggs for Out magazine. The photograph of Semenya, taken in Seattle, Washington, depicts her standing on a running track. Semenya is shown from the waist up, facing the viewer, and standing with her arms resting at her sides. She is wearing a yellow, mesh, tank top with a chevron pattern at the center and a black Nike logo over her proper left breast. She has a protective hairstyle with her hair braided into thin cornrows, arranged in a wave patterns on the proper left side of her scalp. Her cornrow ends are braided into loose, neck length braids. She has a diamond stud in her proper right ear and she is also wearing a short, silver tone, metal chain necklace with a small, silver tone, Africa-shaped pendant. She is smiling widely with her tongue sticking out over her lower lip.

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