World Athletics to Introduce ‘Pre-Clearance’ Sex Tests for Female Athletes

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Seb Coe, president of World Athletics, will introduce noninvasive “pre-clearance tests” for female athletes amid disputes over men’s participation in women’s sports.

The tests will include cheek swabs or dry blood tests and will only be used once in an athlete’s career. According to Athletics Weekly, tests could be introduced as early as September of this year for the World Championships.

“It’s important to do it because it maintains everything that we’ve been talking about, and particularly recently, about not just talking about the integrity of women’s sport, but guaranteeing it,” Coe said. “We feel this is a really important way of providing confidence and maintaining that absolute focus on the integrity of competition.”

“We will doggedly protect the female category, and we’ll do whatever is necessary to do it,” he added.

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