Monday, June 30, 2025

Will the New International Olympic Committee president and former athlete Kirsty Coventry reintroduce sex testing for Olympic athletes?

Hope and pray she will! To be fair, gender testing should be applied to both sexes!

Transgender individuals can have their own category at Olympic Games. How about that? Seems to be a reasonable compromise!

"... the IOC ended gender testing in 1999, punting the responsibility to individual sports bodies.

That status quo may be changing.

"On the protection of the female category, it was very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category, first and foremost," Coventry told a journalist. ..."

New IOC president strikes huge blow to transgender athletes | Blaze Media "Former Auburn swimmer Kirsty Coventry took questions from reporters after being named IOC president last week."


At her second Olympics, in 2004 in Athens, a successful appearance. Coventry collected a full set of medals in that Olympiad, claiming gold in the 200-meter backstroke, silver in the 100 backstroke and bronze in the 200 I.M.


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