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30-07-2025
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Track and field sets Sept. 1 deadline for female eligibility gene tests ahead of worlds in Tokyo
MONACO (AP) — Clarifying promised rules on female eligibility, track and field's governing body set a Sept. 1 deadline Wednesday for athletes to pass a gene test for competing at the world championships. World Athletics said in March it would require chromosome testing by cheek swabs or dry blood-spot tests for female athletes to be eligible for elite-level events. The next worlds open Sept. 13 in Tokyo and Sept. 1 is 'the closing date for entries and the date the regulations come into effect,' World Athletics said in a statement. The latest rules update gives certainty for the 2025 championships in an issue that has been controversial on the track and in multiple courts since Caster Semenya won her first 800 meters world title as a teenager in 2009. Semenya won a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights three weeks ago in Strasbourg, France, in the South Africa star's years-long challenge to a previous version of track and field's eligibility rules affecting athletes with medical conditions known as Differences in Sex Development. That legal win because she did not get a fair hearing at the Swiss supreme court did not overturn track's rules. World Athletics drew up rules in 2018 forcing two-time Olympic champion Semenya and other athletes with DSD to suppress their elevated natural testosterone levels to be eligible for international women's events. Semenya refused to take medication. Now, the Monaco-based track body requires a 'once-in-a-lifetime test' to determine athletes it says are biologically male with a Y chromosome. 'We are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female,' World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said. The governing body is covering up to $100 of the costs for each test with the protocol overseen by its member federations at national level. Test results should be ready within two weeks. 'The SRY test is extremely accurate and the risk of false negative or positive is extremely unlikely,' World Athletics said. World Athletics has combined its eligibility framework for DSD and transgender athletes, with transitional rules that let 'a very small number of known DSD athletes' continue competing if they are taking medication to suppress natural testosterone. 'The transitional provisions do not apply to transgender women as there are none competing at the elite international level under the current regulations,' World Athletics said. Now age 34, and her track career effectively over, Semenya should now see her legal case go back to the Swiss federal court in Lausanne, where she lost her original appeal against track and field's rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. ___ AP sports:
Associated Press
30-07-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Track and field sets Sept. 1 deadline for female eligibility gene tests ahead of worlds in Tokyo
MONACO (AP) — Clarifying promised rules on female eligibility, track and field's governing body set a Sept. 1 deadline Wednesday for athletes to pass a gene test for competing at the world championships. World Athletics said in March it would require chromosome testing by cheek swabs or dry blood-spot tests for female athletes to be eligible for elite-level events. The next worlds open Sept. 13 in Tokyo and Sept. 1 is 'the closing date for entries and the date the regulations come into effect,' World Athletics said in a statement. The latest rules update gives certainty for the 2025 championships in an issue that has been controversial on the track and in multiple courts since Caster Semenya won her first 800 meters world title as a teenager in 2009. Semenya won a ruling at the European Court of Human Rights three weeks ago in Strasbourg, France, in the South Africa star's years-long challenge to a previous version of track and field's eligibility rules affecting athletes with medical conditions known as Differences in Sex Development. That legal win because she did not get a fair hearing at the Swiss supreme court did not overturn track's rules. World Athletics drew up rules in 2018 forcing two-time Olympic champion Semenya and other athletes with DSD to suppress their elevated natural testosterone levels to be eligible for international women's events. Semenya refused to take medication. Now, the Monaco-based track body requires a 'once-in-a-lifetime test' to determine athletes it says are biologically male with a Y chromosome. 'We are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female,' World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said. The governing body is covering up to $100 of the costs for each test with the protocol overseen by its member federations at national level. Test results should be ready within two weeks. 'The SRY test is extremely accurate and the risk of false negative or positive is extremely unlikely,' World Athletics said. World Athletics has combined its eligibility framework for DSD and transgender athletes, with transitional rules that let 'a very small number of known DSD athletes' continue competing if they are taking medication to suppress natural testosterone. 'The transitional provisions do not apply to transgender women as there are none competing at the elite international level under the current regulations,' World Athletics said. Now age 34, and her track career effectively over, Semenya should now see her legal case go back to the Swiss federal court in Lausanne, where she lost her original appeal against track and field's rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. ___ AP sports:
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17-07-2025
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Women's marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich provisionally suspended for positive doping test
MONACO (AP) — Women's marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich provisionally suspended for positive doping test.
Associated Press
17-07-2025
- Sport
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Marathon world record-holder Chepngetich suspended for positive doping test
MONACO (AP) — Women's marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich was provisionally suspended for a positive doping test, track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday. Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent in March and 'opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU's investigation was ongoing,' the investigators said. The Kenyan runner set the world record by almost two minutes at the Chicago Marathon last October in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 56 seconds. The AIU gave no timetable for a disciplinary case. ___ AP sports:
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24-05-2025
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Bad Bunny's Steamy Underwear Selfie Leaves Little to the Imagination
Originally appeared on E! Online Bad Bunny is making you look. The "MONACO" singer—real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—got hearts racing May 23 when he stripped down in a steamy underwear selfie on Instagram. In the pic, Bad Bunny ditched his clothes and solely rocked a pair of white Calvin Kleins, showing off his tattooed chest and thighs. While the skimpy snap revealed plenty of skin, he kept his face covered with the phone camera. The 31-year-old captioned the carousel of pics, "fotos." Other images showed Bad Bunny prepping for the 2025 Met Gala earlier this month—an occasion that certainly required a bit more fabric. For the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style'-themed charity gala—which was co-chaired by Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and Vogue's Anna Wintour—he sported an all-brown custom Prada suit, completing his ensemble with a woven hat, floral lapel pin and giant leather duffel bag. 'We started planning the look since at least January,' he told Vogue on May 5. 'When we found out that it was about Black fashion we got really excited because we felt like we could really connect it to Puerto Rican Afro-Caribbean culture.' More from E! Online Alexis Bledel Makes Rare Comments About The Handmaid's Tale Exit Ahead of Series Finale Vanessa Hudgens Reveals First Photos of Her Baby Nearly a Year After Giving Birth OnlyFans' Annie Knight Shares Update From Hospital After Sex With 583 Men in 6 Hours Though Bad Bunny isn't afraid to show a little skin, he's not the only celeb who has embraced their body in sexy snaps. Read on for more stars who've stripped down on social media. But the artist isn't only prepared to take fashion risks at the Met Gala, frequently showing up and showing out on the red carpet. 'I'm taking advantage of this moment in my life when I can do whatever I want and wear what I want, so I get to live life more authentically,' he told Harper's Bazaar in 2022. 'I don't do it to become more famous or to call attention or to disrespect anyone. People on the outside can think that I have a strategy or I wear this to call for attention, but in reality I just know who I am.' Though Bad Bunny isn't afraid to show a little skin, he's not the only celeb who has embraced their body in sexy snaps. Read on for more stars who've stripped down on social Cyrus
