The Ferrero Group will acquire United States cereal brand WK Kellogg for roughly $3.1bn as the latter struggles with weakening consumer demand and inflationary pressures.
Kellogg and Ferrero announced the deal on Thursday.
Deal making in the snack industry has picked up pace as food brands battle muted sales in the wake of price hikes owing to higher input costs and a shift in consumer preference for healthier options.
Ferrero has offered WK Kellogg’s shareholders $23 per share, representing a 31 percent premium over the stock’s last close. Shares of the cereal maker were up 30.4 percent at $22.84 in early trading on Thursday.
The deal, which is Ferrero’s biggest acquisition in recent years, will bring legacy brands such as Nutella, Kinder, Tic Tac, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Special K under one roof.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025.
WK Kellogg was spun off from Kellanova and holds the North American cereal business of Kellogg, the original parent. Cheez-It maker Kellanova is also in the process of being acquired by the candy giant Mars in a nearly $36bn deal.
WK Kellogg and other packaged food companies such as JM Smucker, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo have flagged subdued demand due to cautious consumer spending in the US after consistent price increases by firms trying to navigate higher input costs.
The Raisin Bran owner said it expects second-quarter net sales to be in the range of $610m to $615m, below analysts’ average estimate of $653.7m, according to data compiled by LSEG. It also projected adjusted core profit of $43m to $48m.
Packaged food makers are also under pressure from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again Commission to eliminate the use of synthetic dyes.
Ferrero, the maker of the Nutella hazelnut spread, has turned into a global group, boosted by an aggressive acquisition campaign launched by Executive Chairman Giovanni Ferrero. In North America, Ferrero has 14,000 employees across 22 plants and 11 offices.
In 2018, Ferrero bought Nestle’s US confectionery business for $2.8bn.
The group reported turnover of 18.4 billion euros ($19.2bn) in the financial year ending on August 31 and said it had increased its investments to boost manufacturing capabilities and expand across categories.
An inspired Amanda Anisimova has torn up the script and soared into her maiden Wimbledon final by outclassing world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 with a display of fierce determination and fearless shot-making.
Anisimova’s victory on Thursday extended her win-loss record over her equally big-hitting rival to 6-3 and kept alive American hopes of a third women’s Grand Slam champion this year after Madison Keys won the Australian Open and Coco Gauff the French Open.
“This doesn’t feel real right now, honestly,” a beaming Anisimova said in an on-court interview.
“Aryna is such a tough competitor, and I was absolutely dying out there. Yeah, I don’t know how I pulled it off. I mean, she’s such an incredible competitor, and she’s an inspiration to me and I’m sure so many other people.
“We’ve had so many tough battles. To come out on top today and be in the final of Wimbledon is so incredibly special. The atmosphere was incredible. I know she’s the number one, but a lot of people were cheering for me. Huge thanks to everyone.”
On a Centre Court where the temperature climbed to 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), Sabalenka twice rushed to the aid of ill fans by supplying bottles of cold water and an ice pack before she cracked under pressure from her opponent in the 10th game.
The 23-year-old Anisimova, playing in her first major semifinal since her 2019 French Open run as a gifted teenager, made her opponent sweat for every point and wrapped up the opening set when Sabalenka produced a double fault.
With her back against the wall, Sabalenka roared back like a tiger, the animal that has become her totem, and broke for a 4-3 lead en route to levelling up the match at one set apiece after some sloppy errors from 13th-seeded Anisimova.
Having matched each other’s decibel levels in a cacophony of grunting, the duo swapped breaks at the start of the decider, but Anisimova pounced again when Sabalenka sent a shot long and went on to book the final with either Iga Swiatek or Belinda Bencic.
Anisimova plays a forehand in the semifinal against Sabalenka [Shi Tang/Getty Images]
Anisimova, who took a mental health break in 2023, expressed disbelief in making the final of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon.
“It’s been a year turnaround since coming back and to be in this spot, … I mean, it’s not easy, and so many people dream of competing on this incredible court,” Anisimova added.
“It’s been such a privilege to compete here, and to be in the final is just indescribable.”
Watching Thursday’s second semifinal, which will determine her next opponent, was very much on Anisimova’s mind despite her nearly three-hour battle in testing conditions.
“It’s going to be an incredible match, and whoever comes out on top, it’s going to be a battle in the final,” she said.
Sabalenka, who was beaten in the title match of the Australian Open and French Open, was left to lick her wounds after missing the chance to become the first woman since Serena Williams in 2014-2015 to reach four straight major finals.
Anisimova, right, and Sabalenka embrace at the end of their semifinal match at Wimbledon [Peter van den Berg/ISI Photos via Getty Images]
United States President Donald Trump has threatened Brazil with a 50 percent tariff, citing the criminal charges against its former president and his political ally Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of plotting a coup.
In a letter to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s current president, Trump said on Wednesday that the treatment of Bolsonaro, who refused to publicly concede the presidential election that he lost to Lula in 2022, “is an international disgrace”.
The letter was one of 22 tariff notices Trump sent this week to various countries. On Monday, the president extended a pause on his sweeping global tariffs from Wednesday to August 1.
For the most part, Trump says he is trying to rebalance large trading deficits, whereby the US imports more from a country than it exports there.
But the US has a trade surplus with Brazil, and the tariff threatened against South America’s largest economy was higher than those received by other countries, which have mostly fallen in the range of 25 to 40 percent.
The escalation in tensions between the US and Brazil came as Lula hosted representatives from China, Russia, Iran and other nations for a BRICS summit of emerging economies in Rio de Janeiro this week.
Leaders attending the summit criticised Trump’s tariffs and the recent US and Israeli bombing of Iran, drawing threats from Trump of a 10 percent additional tariff for “anti-American” BRICS-aligned countries.
What has Trump announced in relation to Brazil?
Trump has continued to publish letters informing US trading partners of tariffs planned to begin on August 1 if they can’t reach trade deals with his government before that. So far, he has sent 22 letters to heads of state. More could still come.
While the letters have mostly denounced trade between those countries and the US as “far from reciprocal”, Trump’s letter to Lula was stronger.
He wrote that “due in part to Brazil’s insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans”, he planned to levy a 50 percent tax on Brazilian goods exported to the US.
“Please understand that the 50 percent number is far less than what is needed to have the Level Playing Field we must have with your Country,” Trump added. “And it is necessary to have this to rectify the grave injustices of the current regime.”
He said: “The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace.”
How has Brazil responded?
Lula promised to hit back with tariffs of his own if Trump follows through with his threat.
“Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions and will not accept any form of tutelage,” Lula said in a post on X.
He added that the criminal case against Bolsonaro, who challenged the outcome of Brazil’s 2022 election, is a matter solely for the justice system and “not subject to interference or threat”.
Lula won a tight presidential race against Bolsonaro in 2022 [Adriano Machado/Reuters]
Why is Trump targeting Brazil when the US has a trade surplus?
According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the US imported $42.3bn of goods from Brazil in 2024 and exported $49.7bn.
In short, Brazil’s purchases from the US amounted to roughly $7.4bn more than US purchases from Brazil.
Ever since the announcement of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, on April 2, Trump has consistently stated his desire to reduce America’s trade deficits with its trading partners.
In Trump’s view, deficit countries, such as the US, import goods that could have been produced at home, harming domestic employment and economic growth in the process.
However, “Brazil has historically run a small trade deficit with the US”, said Elizabeth Johnson, an economic analyst at TS Lombard, a strategy and political research firm. “It is very much political. … It is part of the Bolsonaro family’s effort to get Trump to weigh in on the ongoing trial of Jair Bolsonaro.”
Indeed, this is not the first time Trump has used the threat of tariffs to try to alter other countries’ domestic policy decisions.
Since returning to office in January, he has threatened a 25 percent tariff on Colombian goods and said he would double that if the country refused to accept deportees from the US. Colombia ultimately accepted his terms.
What trade does the US do with Brazil?
In 2023, the balance of trade (imports plus exports) between the US and Brazil amounted to $104bn, making Brazil the US’s 15th largest trading partner.
Top US exports to Brazil last year included aircraft and spacecraft (amounting to about $7bn), fossil fuels ($9bn) and industrial machinery such as nuclear reactors and electrical equipment (roughly $10bn), according to US Census Bureau data.
Brazil’s exports to the US in 2023 were led by crude oil and fossil fuels (about $8.8bn), iron and steel products ($5bn) and soya beans ($3.3bn).
What impact could a 50 percent tariff have on Brazil’s economy?
It could severely hurt companies highly exposed to the US market. In particular, firms in the base metals and agricultural sectors could be badly hit.
According to Johnson, Trump’s tariff threat could be a drag on economic growth because the US is Brazil’s second largest export market after China.
Indeed, Goldman Sachs has calculated that Brazil’s exports to the US represent 2 percent of its gross domestic product and Trump’s tariffs could cut its economic growth by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points.
What impact could this have on the US economy?
If the tariffs are implemented, US firms that buy Brazilian goods would most likely have to find alternative sources for those products, and this could take time.
In the meantime, “the semifinished steel products from Brazil used in American manufacturing mean [that higher tariffs would be] a negative,” Johnson told Al Jazeera.
In addition, “beef, orange juice, coffee” and other farm products travelling from Brazil into the US would become much more expensive, she said.
On the other hand, Johnson suggested, “There’s room for Trump to score a win with Brazil by allowing more ethanol exports into the US, which would help [American] farmers.”
What charges is Bolsonaro facing in Brazil?
Bolsonaro, who was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, refused to concede his presidential election loss to his left-wing rival in 2022.
Bolsonaro raised questions about the accuracy of the election result, claiming that some electronic voting machines had been faulty.
Shortly after Lula took office in January 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters angered over the election result stormed the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court in the capital, Brasilia.
Now, Bolsonaro is facing criminal charges for allegedly plotting a coup and for alleged actions he took to overturn the 2022 election result.
Bolsonaro and 33 other people were charged this year, and the ex-president’s case is being heard by the Supreme Court. He could face 40 years in prison if found guilty.
Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing and has framed the trial as a politically motivated attack.
Trump, who also falsely claimed he had beaten Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, had faced criminal charges related to seeking to overturn that election. His supporters also stormed the US Capitol before Biden took office, seeking to stop the certification of the election results.
Trump has highlighted what he regards as parallels between himself and Bolsonaro. On Monday, he wrote on social media that he empathised with what was happening to Bolsonaro: “It happened to me, times 10.”
Which other countries were notified of new tariffs?
Other than Brazil, recipients of tariff letters on Wednesday included the Philippines, Moldova, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Libya, Algeria and Iraq. They were notified of tariffs as high as 30 percent.
The rates Trump said would be imposed on Sri Lanka, Moldova, Iraq and Libya were lower than those he initially announced in early April.
Tariffs on goods from the Philippines and Brunei were higher. The rate for goods from Algeria remained the same.
Trump has said companies that move production to the US will be exempt from tariffs. But he also warned that if countries retaliate, they could face even higher US duties.
The US and its largest trading partners have been negotiating trade deals since Trump announced the tariffs. But so far, only Vietnam and the United Kingdom have reached new deals while a partial agreement has been reached with China.
As Russia heavily bombarded Ukraine’s cities during the past week, Kyiv’s two most cautious wartime allies appeared to overcome their inhibitions in helping Ukraine defend itself.
US President Donald Trump on Monday [July 7] said he would resume military aid shipments to Ukraine after his defence secretary suspended them last week.
“We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to,” Trump told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting. “They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now.”
Observers have claimed that over the past week, Russia has twice broken its war record for the largest combined strikes against Ukraine.
On Friday, Russia launched 550 air strikes overnight, Ukraine said, including 539 drones and 11 missiles – its biggest strike to date. Ukraine’s Air Force said it neutralised 478 drones and two Iskander-K cruise missiles.
Then on Wednesday, Russia launched 741 air attacks on Ukraine overnight, comprised of 728 Shahed kamikaze drones and a lethal cocktail of missiles. Ukraine claimed to have repelled 711 drones and seven Iskander-K cruise missiles.
The success rate could suggest that Ukraine is far from running out of critical components in its air defence.
That impression was strengthened on Thursday, when Russia launched 397 drones, eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles, six Kh-101 cruise missiles and four S-300/400 guided missiles.
Ukraine’s Air Force neutralised or shot down all the Iskanders, all the Kh-101s, and 382 drones.
(Al Jazeera)
The only weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal that can knock ballistic missiles out of the sky is the US-made Patriot system.
But Moscow’s rising aggression is not the only factor in Trump’s apparent change of heart.
The US leader had suspended all military aid to Ukraine in February, fulfilling a Russian condition for peace talks.
Although that did not work, for months, Trump insisted on appeasing Moscow. But after at least two disappointing phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his tone has changed.
Putin on Friday told Trump by phone that “Russia will achieve its goals” in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters, “We get a lot of b******* thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Last month at The Hague, during the annual NATO summit, Trump said he found Putin “misguided,” after a phone call, adding he was “very surprised” the Russian leader had not agreed on peace terms.
Putin’s right-hand man, the deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, this week said Trump was “riding his favourite political roller coaster again”, oscillating between helping Ukraine and not helping it.
“How should we treat this?” he asked on his Telegram messaging service channel. “Business as usual.”
Ukrainians, too, seemed unimpressed by Trump’s u-turn.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to sense that Trump’s conversion may be real.
On Tuesday, Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, “Today, I instructed the minister of defence and the commander-in-chief to intensify all contacts with the American side.”
“We currently have all the necessary political statements and decisions and we must implement them as quickly as possible to protect our people and positions,” he said.
What does Zelenskyy want?
Zelenskyy has launched a programme called Build with Ukraine, which has secured co-production of critical systems with various European partners, including Norway and the United Kingdom.
Ukraine supplies battlefield testing, and partners provide finance. Both sides supply technology and production capacity.
Ukraine sees this as an ideal marriage of money and technology that enables Ukraine to acquire effective weapons quickly and cheaply.
Zelenskyy now wants to extend such partnerships to US weapons companies, which supply 43 percent of the world’s defence exports.
On Friday, Zelenskyy signed a contract with US drone manufacturer Swift Beat to produce “hundreds of thousands of drones” this year and more next year.
(Al Jazeera)
Ukraine has begun to make strides in downing Russian Shahed kamikaze drones using interceptor drones.
“Interceptor drones demonstrated important performance today,” Zelenskyy said on Friday following Russia’s barrage. “Dozens of Shaheds were taken down specifically by interceptors. We are scaling this up to the hilt.”
Zelenskyy has also said he wants more Patriot launch systems, more Patriot interceptor missiles, and long-range attack missiles that can reach deep inside Russia.
Germany, Ukraine’s other cautious ally, may be stepping in.
Axios reported on Tuesday that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in talks with Trump to co-finance a Patriot battery for Ukraine. There is not yet agreement. Merz wants to pay for a new battery to be shipped from the US to Ukraine. Trump suggests shipping a German one and splitting the cost.
Merz has also overcome his predecessor’s caution about sending Ukraine 1,000km-range (621-mile-range) Taurus cruise missiles, which carry large 450kg (992lb) warheads and are hard to intercept because they travel at high speed.
Ukraine wants them to destroy Russian weapons factories, such as the one at Alabuga that manufactures Shahed drones, and is currently being expanded.
Merz said on Tuesday that he discussed with Zelenskyy the issue of training the Ukrainian military to handle Taurus cruise missiles.
(Al Jazeera)
Russia has repeatedly threatened Germany with consequences if it supplies Ukraine with Taurus missiles.
Germany last week also signed a contract to finance the production of more than 500 Antonov-196 long-range drones for Ukraine, part of a 9-billion-euro ($10.6bn) military aid package this year – the largest in Europe.
Zelenskyy also wants increased sanctions against Russia, and Merz is assuming a leading role in overcoming the objections of two European Union members, Hungary and Slovakia.
The EU has proposed an 18th package of sanctions that would eliminate its last remaining $23bn of energy purchases from Russia.
Slovakia vetoed it last month.
“The entire Slovak industry, including many German companies, depends on Russian energy supplies, as there are currently no alternatives. We are working to solve this problem, and I am involved in these efforts,” Merz said in a TV interview last week.
Despite Merz’s assurances, Slovakia’s permanent EU representative again vetoed the package on Wednesday, diplomats said. The package was to be discussed again on Friday.
Yet this front-and-centre posture to help Ukraine marks a change of policy for Germany, which under its former chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was loath even to raise its own defence spending to 2 percent of GDP.
With Scholz’s support in the Bundestag, Merz has now pledged 3.5 percent by the end of the decade.
Russia’s travails
On the front lines, Russia continued its creeping advance, taking the villages of Puddubnoye and Sobolevka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Sunday, and Tolstoy on Wednesday. But its most telling move was the occupation of Razine on July 3.
“Russian advances west and northwest of Razine most immediately support the envelopment of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad – an operational objective that Russian forces have been pursuing over the last 18 months,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
Russia also occupied the village of Melovoye in Kharkiv last week.
Russian officials are likely to be worried about manpower losses, however.
(Al Jazeera)
Ukrainian commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Russian casualties amounted to 32,420 last month alone.
Medvedev said the pace of recruitment was satisfactory, with 210,000 people signing contracts with the Russian military this year, and another 18,000 signing up as volunteers.
Both losses and recruitment balanced at roughly a thousand people a day, but Russia is looking to boost the number of its forces.
On Monday, Putin signed a law allowing non-Russian citizens to serve in the Russian military. It was expedited “in order to take urgent additional measures to restaff the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, according to TASS.
CNN, citing Ukrainian and Western intelligence, reported that North Korea may send an additional 25,000 to 30,000 troops to Ukraine, in addition to the 11,000 it sent last year.
Nigeria’s military and security forces have killed dozens of armed men in separate operations in the northwest and the northeast of the country, authorities have said.
Security forces killed at least 30 gunmen after armed attacks in the restive northwest, Nasir Mua’zu, Katsina state’s commissioner for internal affairs, said on Thursday.
He claimed “criminals” were raiding three villages on Tuesday when they were killed by government forces.
A joint police and military operation was launched on Wednesday after hundreds of armed men attacked several villages, Mua’zu added in a statement.
He said a civilian, two soldiers and three policemen were also killed.
“Our gallant security forces successfully repelled the attackers … Thirty of the criminals were neutralised through coordinated air strikes as they attempted to escape,” Mua’zu said.
“We are working tirelessly with federal security agencies to ensure the safety of all citizens.”
Separately, in Nigeria’s northeast, the military “neutralised” 24 armed fighters in days of coordinated operations, an army statement said on Thursday.
TROOPS OF OPERATION HADIN KAI NEUTRALIZE 24 BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS AND RECOVER WEAPONS IN OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS BETWEEN 4 – 9 JULY 2025
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Nigerian troops backed by air support and local forces killed several fighters from Boko Haram and the ISIL affiliate in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in operations between July 4 and 9, the army wrote on X.
The operations were carried out in restive Borno state and surrounding regions, said the statement by Reuben Kovangiya, an army spokesman for the military operations.
“The neutralisation of 24 insurgents with close air support underscores the determination, collaboration, and concerted efforts by the troops of OPHK [Operation Hadin Kai], to ensure terrorists are placed on the back foot, thereby creating conducive environment for socioeconomic activities to thrive in the North East region,” Kovangiya said.
Northeast Nigeria has faced attacks since the 2000s from armed gangs as well as groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP.
The Boko Haram insurgency has killed some 35,000 civilians since 2009, and more than two million people have been displaced, according to the United Nations.
Meanwhile, in the central and northwest regions, criminal gangs and banditry are rife.
Katsina is part of an area that has for years been terrorised by gangs who stage deadly raids and kidnappings and burn homes after looting them.
The gangs maintain camps in forests straddling Zamfara, Katsina, and Kaduna states in the northwest, and Niger in the country’s centre, and have carried out mass kidnappings of students from schools.
Last month, state officials signed a peace pact with a dozen bandit leaders, hoping to bring lasting respite ahead of the planting season.
Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.
The court’s 17-judge highest chamber said in a 15-2 ruling on Thursday that Semenya had some of her rights to a fair hearing violated before Switzerland’s Supreme Court, where she had appealed against a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). It had ruled in favour of track’s international governing body, World Athletics.
Her case should now go back to the Swiss federal court in Lausanne – and will be watched closely by other sports that have passed or are reviewing their own rules on eligibility in women’s events.
The original case between Semenya and Monaco-based World Athletics was about whether female athletes who have specific medical conditions, a typically male chromosome pattern and naturally high testosterone levels should be allowed to compete freely in women’s sports.
Europe’s top human rights court in Strasbourg, France, dismissed other aspects of the appeal filed by Semenya, who was in court Thursday to hear the judgement read. It awarded her $94,000 from the state of Switzerland “in respect of costs and expenses”.
The European court’s ruling does not overturn the World Athletics rules that in effect ended Semenya’s career running the 800 metres after she had won two Olympic gold medals and three world titles since emerging on the global stage as a teenager in 2009.
The key legal point in Semenya’s win was the Swiss Federal Court had not carried out a “rigorous judicial review” that was required because Semenya had no choice but to pursue her case through the CAS’s “mandatory and exclusive jurisdiction”, the judges in Strasbourg ruled.
Governing bodies of sports oblige athletes and national federations to take their disputes to the sports court in the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) home city of Lausanne.
“The court considered, however, that the Federal Supreme Court’s review had fallen short of that requirement,” the European Court of Human Rights said in a statement.
Semenya last competed in the world championships in 2022 [File: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images]
In dismissing other elements of the South African runner’s case, including if she had been discriminated against, the court judged it “did not fall within Switzerland’s jurisdiction in respect of those complaints”.
World Athletics, led by its president, Sebastian Coe, has said its rules maintain fairness because Semenya has an unfair, male-like athletic advantage from her higher testosterone. Semenya argues her testosterone is a genetic gift.
World Athletics and the CAS did not immediately respond to the ruling. The IOC declined to comment on a case it is not directly involved in.
Thursday’s win followed a legal victory from the same court two years ago for Semenya.
That judgement, which found she had faced discrimination, opened a way for the Swiss Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to dismiss her appeal against the CAS verdict in favour of World Athletics.
The CAS in 2019 ruled 2-1 that discrimination against Semenya was “necessary, reasonable and proportionate” to maintain fairness in women’s track events.
World Athletics drew up its rules in 2018, forcing Semenya and other female athletes with differences in sex development to suppress their testosterone to be eligible for international women’s events.
Semenya last competed internationally in the 800 in 2019, winning at the Prefontaine Classic on the Diamond League circuit in Eugene, Oregon. It extended her winning streak to more than 30 consecutive races before the rules made her ineligible.
Her winning time then of 1 minute 55.7 seconds was faster than the gold medal-winning time at the 2024 Paris Olympics but not the 1:55.21 run by Athing Mu of the United States at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.
Semenya returned to Eugene in 2022 to race in the 5,000-metre world championship but did not advance from the heats.
