In prelude to the 2012 Olympic Games, the South African champion in the 800m I have decided to reduce to a minimum her participation in the numerous meetings and competitions organized each winter in South Africa. She will certainly play   the national championship to keep her title and that's it. Her agent, Juka Harkonen, in agreement with the Mozambican Maria Lurdes Mutola which have been training her since the 2011 autumn, has justified this choice: "Last year, he acknowledged, she ran a lot in South Africa and had to make many trips with a new coach, there are also new training techniques and new ideas. And we must not forget that Caster is still young. " As reminder, the world champion in the 800m in 2009 in Berlin, Semenya had to content herself with the silver medal in Daegu (South Korea) in 2011.