Swab test to determine female gender

World Athletics said on Tuesday it had approved the introduction of the swab test to determine if an athlete is biologically female.

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Sebastian Coe, the president of the international track and field federation, said the test, whose introduction was given the green lighting by the World Athletics Council, was “really important by way of protecting the female category”.

“It’s important to do it because it maintains everything that we’ve been talking about and particularly recently, about the female sport’s world, but also guaranteeing it,” Coe said in a press conference after the Council met over two days in Nanjing, China, following.

The World Indoor Championships.

“We feel this is a really important way of providing and feeling, and maintaining absolute focus on the integrity of competition,” he added.