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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring trans women from competing in female sports, a move that could impact schools and professional competitions nationwide. The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” enforces penalties on institutions that fail to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will …

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ruled that Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games under neutral status. According to a statement published on the IOC website on Friday, Individual Neutral Athletes – which the organization’s Executive Committee defines as athletes who …

Russian teams and athletes have found unlikely support from a Canadian chief investigator at the Word Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who thinks they have been treated unfairly when handed bans by many sporting federations. Richard McLaren is a law professor who worked for WADA on alleged Russian state-sponsored doping, which Moscow …

Football’s main governing body FIFA has already outlined new regulations that will make it easy for transgender women to compete in elite female football, according to a report. The Mail on Sunday claim that the draft framework removes the testosterone threshold for transgender women and proposes that footballers should also be …

Only around 3 of 10 Americans believe that trans females should be permitted to compete in women’s sports, according to new polling data published by the Washington Post. The results of the poll, which was conducted last month and involved more than 1,500 people, found that 55% of respondees were …

Transgender athletes will no longer be able to take part in sports on girls and women’s teams in Louisiana after a bill was passed to become law there on Monday. Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards allowed the bill to pass despite previously saying he was opposed to the legislation and …

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has claimed sanctions were imposed on Russian sport partly for the good of its athletes, while cautioning any Russian stars against supporting their country’s military campaign in Ukraine. Speaking at an IOC session in Switzerland on Friday, Bach repeated the refrain that the …

One of the unspoken rules of human affairs is that ordinary citizens should never be personally harassed for the political actions of their leaders. That truism has never been properly observed enough, and went completely out of the window when Russia began its military operation in Ukraine. This week, Serbian tennis …

Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from competitions by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA), which announced a “very difficult and painful decision” on Wednesday. The IBSA confirmed the development through a statement on its official website written by president Sandro Di Girolamo. “With reference to the decisions issued by the …

With the Beijing Games now in full swing and the first round of events well and truly underway, it hasn’t taken very for a number of athletes ensconced in the Olympic Village to speak out against some of the conditions they are enduring in the Chinese capital – with some …