World Athletics Games to introduce women’s genetic tests

World Athletics President Sebastian Ko said on Tuesday that the ruling body of the cut and the field has agreed to introduce cheek swabs and dry blood stain tests for mathematics in order to maintain the “integrity of competition”.

Scheduled changes include a copy of the suspended chromosome test in the 1990s, which requires athletes who compete in the female category to undergo mucus cheek or dry blood test of a gene that indicates whether the athlete “Y” is present in males.

Ko told a press conference that athletes will have to take the test only once during their career.

“It is important to do this because it maintains everything we were talking about, especially recently, about not talking about the safety of female sport, but in reality it guarantees it,” said Ko after a two -day meeting in the World Athletics Council in Nanjing. “We feel that this is a really important way to provide confidence and maintain this absolute focus on the integrity of competition.”

It is not clear whether the tests will work before the World Championship in September. Co said that the new regulations will be formulated and a test provider will be confirmed within the next few weeks.

COE, the twice Olympic champion who did not succeed last week in his attempt to become the head of the Latin state of the state, was vocal for the “female group protection” in the path and the field. He said that the International Olympic Committee needs to play a leading role in the discussion of the transgender people instead of allowing every individual sport to report its own regulations.

These recommendations came just days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that the transgender athletes prohibit the competition in girls’ sports in the United States and pressed the Olympic Games to do the same. Los Angeles will host the 2028 summer games.

In response to a question about whether the world of athletics feels that politics will carry legal challenges, Ko said that he is confident after a comprehensive review.

“I wouldn’t stop this path in 2016-2017 to protect the female category in sport” without preparation “to enjoy the challenge face to face.”

He added: “We have gone to the arbitration court of the DSD regulations (differences in sexual development). They have been supported, and they were supported again after the appeal. So we will protect the female category brilliantly, and we will do everything necessary to do so.”

Olympic Champions Awards to increase

Ko said that world athletics are also committed to increasing the prize money for the Olympic Champions. She awarded the Paris Games for the first year for the first time, giving gold medals $ 50,000 each, and promised that at the Los Angeles 2028 games there will be silver and bronze money as well.

“This is something you always thought: wherever you can, you make financial security for the athlete one of your priorities,” Ko said, adding that the total prize money on the events in the next four session will reach 51 million dollars.

The world of athletics said that there will be no change in sanctions against Russia and Belarus, who are still prohibited from international competitions since 2022 after Moscow invaded Ukraine.