"I read the IOC framework, it is in line with what we believe in, the principle of fair competition," said Sebastian Coe at a press conference following the World athletics Congress. .
“Our regulations will remain in place,” he repeated. sincerely believe that is the case ".
The IOC has given up on establishing uniform guidelines on the criteria for the participation of intersex and transgender athletes, leaving the hand to the international federations.
The body published on Wednesday a non-binding "framework" with 10 principles ranging from "inclusiveness" to the absence of "unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage", including the "primacy of health" and "law to privacy ".
Since April 2018, the International Athletics Federation has required women with a natural excess of male sex hormones to lower their testosterone levels through treatment in order to align themselves in certain international events.
A regulation denounced in particular by the two-time South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya, who refuses to comply, but has lost the appeals brought in particular before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The South African Caster Semenya, victorious over 800m, during the Diamond League meeting on May 3, 2019 in Doha Karim JAAFAR AFP / Archives
Semenya had also considered that her privacy had not been respected during the practice of femininity tests and had complained to the CAS of having been treated as a "laboratory rat" from 2010, when she had agreed to undergo hormonal treatment.
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