Follow and field to be the first Olympic event to require DNA tests to prove sex Athletics News

The world’s athletics head says that the rules will support the safety of women’s sport amid a discussion about the inclusion of transit athletes.

The path and the field are scheduled to become the first Olympic sport to ask the participants in women’s events to undergo a DNA test to prove their biological gender after a decision of global athletics.

Sebastian Ko, head of World Athletics, said on Wednesday that the ruling authority for the path and the field agreed to provide the test to maintain “the absolute focus on the integrity of the competition.”

Ko said on Tuesday after a two -day meeting of the ruling body council in Nanjing, “

“This, as we feel, is a really important way to provide confidence and maintain this absolute focus on the integrity of competition.”

Ko, a former runner -up to the Olympic Medal, said that the authority took the decision after a “comprehensive review” and consultations with more than 70 sports and invitation groups.

“With an overwhelming majority, the scene returned to this is the way at all.”

Ko, who earlier this month, said a failed attempt to lead the International Olympic Committee, that competitors will be subject to non -invasive cheeks and dry blood stain tests and will not be examined only once in their career.

He said: “We will protect the female category greatly and we will do everything necessary to do this, and we are not only talking about it.”

The decision is the latest in a hot discussion about the participation of sexually transformed women and the non -gender -matching mathematics in women’s sport.

World Athletics announced in 2023 a ban on sexually transformed women who have gone through males, pending a review of the eligibility requirements for female participants in the female competition.

This step canceled the previous rules that allowed sexually transformed women to compete if they maintain the level of testosterone in the blood, no more than 5nmol/L for the previous 12 months.

Although it is widely aimed at athletes who changed their gender, global athletics test requirements will also affect small numbers of competitors who were born with unconventional sex chromosomes.

The world’s athletics decision also comes following similar movements by many major sports bodies, including the water world and the National Sports Association, which is the main governing body for university sport in the United States.

The International Olympic Committee, which will oversee the management of the 2028 games in Los Angeles, allowed the transgender athletes to compete since 2004, but eventually wandering in the civil rules set by individual sports bodies.

Besides the world of sports, the issue has become a stunning rod in the broader cultural wars that occur in the United States and other Western countries.

Last month, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to refuse to finance the federal government of educational institutes that allow girls and women transformed to participate in female sport and use female changing rooms.

In a survey in the New York Times/Ipsus published in January, 79 percent of Americans said that women converted to participate in female sports, an increase of 62 percent in 2021.