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 …
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Ukrainian former world judo champion Georgii Zantaraia has said he will renounce his titles if Russians are permitted to compete at an upcoming tournament in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. The International Judo Federation (IJF) is standing by its policy to allow Russians and Belarusian to appear under neutral status. …
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has waded into the growing furore surrounding the fairness of trans athletes competing against women as he says that it is “sensible” that biologically born men shouldn’t be permitted to compete in female sporting categories. Johnson’s comments come days after transgender cyclist Emily Bridges was …
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is free to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected demands to impose a suspension on the teenager, in a case involving a positive doping sample taken in December. The decision comes just one day before the …
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Australia’s Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt will be able to compete in the curling mixed double tournament at the Winter Games in Beijing after the Medical Expert Panel (MEP) ruled that Gill could compete despite a positive Covid-19 test. Gill was placed in isolation in the Chinese capital after several …
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When transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon (now Veronica Ivy) took to the podium after winning the 2018 women’s world track championships, the differences between the competitors were clear to see. McKinnon is taller, broader and more muscular than the women lining up for silver and bronze medals. Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard …
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How do you solve the controversy over sports competitions between female and transgender athletes? When the two compete in the same events, the latter can ruin things for the former. Young girls are deprived of the medals, honors, and scholarships they would otherwise have earned. But should transgender athletes be banned …
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The Tokyo Olympics get underway this week but the women’s weightlifting competition is already mired in controversy. Laurel Hubbard will represent New Zealand in the 87kg+ class and become the first male-born transgender athlete to compete against women at the Olympic Games. The 43-year-old’s eligibility followed a 2015 ruling by …
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CeCe Telfer will not be able to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles due to World Athletics guidelines which set requirements for athletes to be eligible for the summer Olympics, according to the Associated Press. In 2019, the organization closed international women’s events from 400 meters to a mile to any …
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Feminists have been up in arms of late about the intervention into women’s sports of males who declare themselves to be females. And this is not an unreasonable concern. For if encouraged, or even allowed, this will spell the death knell for distaff athletic competitions. The biological truth is that …
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