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

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.