BENGALURU - Female athletes will soon have to undergo a one-time genetic test to compete in women's events, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Tuesday, after proposals to tighten ...

requiring athletes who compete in the female category to submit to a cheek swab or dry blood-spot test for the presence of a gene that indicates whether the athlete has a "Y" chromosome present in ...

said the test, whose introduction was given the green light by the World Athletics Council, was a "really important" way of protecting the female category. "It's important to do it because it ...

So we will doggedly protect the female category, and we’ll do whatever is necessary to do it." A World Athletics working group on gender diverse athletes said in February that the required test ...

PARIS — World Athletics said on Tuesday it had approved the introduction of a cheek swab test to determine if an athlete is biologically female. Sebastian Coe, the president of the international ...

from the 30 second Wingate anaerobic test (WAnT)) in female university standard games players. Methods: Data came from three phases using a total of 72 players (mean (SD) age 20.3 (1.5) years, body ...