According to SEBASTIAN COE, 90 %of the players were tested ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September. The SRY test identifies the Y chromosome to develop male characteristics.
Last update: 29/08/25 12:05 am
SEB COE said more than 90 % of the players to compete in the women’s category at the upcoming World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.
Sebastian COE, the world’s athletic chairman, says more than 90 percent of the players who are competing in the women’s category have received a new genetic test at the upcoming World Athletics Championship.
Tests known as SRY tests identify Y chromosomes and generate male characteristics.
If a player returns negative results, you can compete in the women’s category in the World Ranking Event, including the World Championships, which will begin September 13.
In March, the World Athletics approved the use of tests, and at the end of July, the players needed a one -time test to compete after September 1.
In fact, the test is non -invasive, including blood tests or cheek swabs. SRY tests are called ‘sex tests’, and some have been considered controversial and divided, but others need to claim greater protection of female athletes.
Sir coe said:
“The goal would have been tested until we had the championship, but the period was tight. We knew it.
“The athletes are overwhelmingly supported and have helped everything. Membership had to set a very supportive and most effective test.”
Member Union is initially responsible for providing SRY tests. For example, in the UK, it is a UKA/British activist who supervises the test.
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The world’s athletic chairman, COE Chairman, said that after approving the introduction of cheek swabs to determine whether the player is biologically female, the driving institution will do everything necessary to protect the female category of sports.
In France, this process is complicated by the French law. The SRY genetic test was illegal in France in 1994, and in 1994, it was illegal due to the law of banning DNA tests for non -medical and non -legal purposes to protect the integrity of the family, so French players had to perform SRY tests by traveling outside France.
The COE said that the goal is to test all athletes when the world athletes start next month, but the results are not known for the tight time.
In the case of athletes who could not provide SRY tests by the National Federation, the World Athletics will provide tests when holding a camp in Japan used by athletes before competing in Tokyo.
CoE said, “This process has been very smooth, but there was no challenge.” Most of them were very simple and we contributed about $ 100 (£ 74) per exam. “
Athletics often led other sensitive problems in sports, such as genetic testing problems, DSDs (DSDs) and transgender policies, but not the only sports that introduced SRY tests.
COE believes that the World Movement Policy will meet legal investigation.
World Boxing, a recently recognized global management agency, has been tested for boxers who want to compete in women’s categories, including the upcoming World Boxing Championship, which will begin in Liverpool in May.
IMane Khelif, an Algeria Olympic boxing champion, who was at the center of the qualification dispute last year in the Paris match, is not entering the welterweight category next week, but is expected to enter Lin Yu-Ting, a other boxer at the center of Paris.
The coach of the Featherweight Gold Medalist in Paris said: “She did not consider withdrawal in the competition because of the new gender test. We will submit all the documents requested by the organizer as part of the normal process.
Khelif and YU -TING were estimated to have failed to meet the gender qualification standards in the 2023 World Championships, but if the boxer test was completed by the previous International Union of Boxing, there was no evidence of the boxer of the boxer, but it was widely indescribable IBA.
IBA was expelled from the Olympic Movement with concerns about the body’s civil servants and transparency.
