World Athletics approved Tuesday cheeks tests to check if an athlete is a woman, like Sebastian Coe, the organization of the organization, has promised to protect female sports.
COE said that pre-authorization tests will be for athletes who wish to participate in the female category. He called the “very simple” process and an “important” problem for him. He added that the tests are not invasive and were ready for any criticism that could appear to him.
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Sebastian Coe speaks at a press conference after a presentation in front of their colleagues member of the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, January 30, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini / Pool Photo via AP)
“None of these elements are invasive. They are necessary, and they will be made to absolutely international medical standards,” he said during media availability. “I would not have triggered this path in 2016, 2017 to protect the female category in sport if I had been something other than prepared to take up the challenge.
“We went to the court of arbitration for sport on our [difference of sexual development] DSD regulations. They were confirmed, and once again, they were confirmed after the call. We will stubbornly protect the female category and we will do everything you need to do so. And we are not only talking about it. “”
Coe stressed the importance of keeping women sportswoman female.
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“It is important to do it because it maintains everything we have talked about and, in particular recently, not only to talk about the integrity of women, female sport, but to guarantee it and that we think that we think we are a really important way to provide confidence and maintain absolute concentration on the integrity of competition,” he said.
Officials said in February that the test was looking for Gene Sry, according to Sky News. The specific gene “provides instructions to make a protein called protein Y of the sex determination region. This protein is involved in the development of male sex, which generally follows a certain diagram based on an individual’s chromosomes”, according to Medline Plus.
The test is carried out via the swallowing of the cheeks with possibly a sample of dry blood if necessary.
Coe, who was in the running to become the head of the International Olympic Committee, said in November that the Olympic Games needed a clear policy to protect female sports.
Sebastian Coe arrives in the mixed zone during a break from the 144th session, which will elect the new president of the IOC, in Costa Navarino, Western Greece, Wednesday March 19, 2025. (APTO Photo / Thanassis Stavrakis)
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