The International Athletics Federation announced Tuesday, March 25, having approved the introduction of a oral sampling test to determine if an athlete is biologically a woman. For Sebastian Coe, which chairs World Athletics, this decision is a “very important means of creating confidence and maintaining absolute attention on the integrity of women’s competition”. “It is important to do it because (…) that it is not only a question of talking about the integrity of women’s sport, but of guaranteeing it,” said Sebastian Coe at a press conference at the end of the indoor world championships that held last week in Nankin (China). The decision of the World Athletics council was taken after a large consultation, he added. It emerged that this measure was “undoubtedly (…) the path to follow” continued Coe, noting that this oral test was not considered to be too intrusive. The date of introduction of this measure has not been set, “but we expect it to be in place for the Tokyo World Championships this year (September 13-21, editor’s note),” said the organization.
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Athletics: The International Federation establishes the oral direct debit to determine the genre of athletes
