Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in female track and field events regardless of their levels of testosterone, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said Thursday, citing fairness…
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The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has charged Belarusian coach Yury Maisevich for for alleged breaches of the World Athletics’ Integrity Code of Conduct regarding the withdrawal of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya…
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Double Olympic women’s 800m champion, Caster Semenya has slammed the World Athletics (WA) in a scathing post on her social media page. Semenya is not allowed to compete across a…
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Athletics
Sebastian Coe warns transgender athletes pose risk to women’s sport
by correspondent March 22, 2022World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe has warned ‘gender cannot trump biology’ as the transgender debate threatens to engulf sport. Coe spoke after the American swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman…
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The Diamond League of track and field competitions has banned Russian Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) and Belarusian athletes from its events “for the foreseeable future”, organisers said, following Russia’s invasion…
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World Athletics has banned Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) and Belarusian athletics federation athletes “for the foreseeable future” from World Athletics competition in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, with immediate…
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Athletics
Athletes will be free to protest on the podium at Commonwealth Games
by Sky Sports February 22, 2022Athletes will be free to protest on the podium and send respectful messages at this summer’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is set to reveal that…
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AthleticsFeatures
38 Medical Scientists appeal to IOC over transgender Rule
by correspondent January 19, 2022A lineup of 38 medical experts and sports insiders have signed a statement criticizing the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new framework on transgender athletes, issuing a warning over fairness as…
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IOC president Thomas Bach on Thursday warned that the continued inclusion of weightlifting, boxing and modern pentathlon in the Games was in doubt but that skateboarding, climbing and surfing would be kept on the programme…
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Athletics
AIU begins investigations to probe Belarus officials removed from Olympics
by James Koech September 30, 2021Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has launched investigation into two Belarus coaches who allegedly tried to force an athlete to fly home from the Tokyo Olympics. Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she was…