Ioc Sets Up Working Group 'to Protect Women's Sport'

The International Olympic Committee has group up 4 moving groups, including 1 for nan protection of women's sport, successful its bid to reshape nan Olympic Games nether caller president Kirsty Coventry.

Working groups to reappraisal nan Olympic programme, nan Youth Olympic Games and commercialized partnerships and trading person besides been established.

Coventry, who became nan first female IOC president successful March, had promised to create a moving group for women's sports, saying nan organisation must "play a starring role" successful discussions connected gender eligibility.

The IOC said nan moving group will "look astatine really we tin champion protect nan female category".

However, while naming nan members of nan different 3 groups, it declined to opportunity who would beryllium connected nan Protection of nan Female Category Working Group.

"The group will dwell of experts and world federations," it said.

"The names of nan members of nan moving group will stay confidential for now to protect nan integrity of nan group and its work."

The IOC has antecedently near gender regulations to nan governing bodies of individual sports alternatively than applying a cosmopolitan approach.

A increasing number of sports federations person barred athletes who person undergone antheral puberty from competing successful elite female competition.

In February, US President Donald Trump signed an executive bid that prevents transgender women from competing successful female categories.

He specified nan bid would see nan 2028 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles, adding he will contradict visas for transgender athletes trying to sojourn America to compete astatine nan LA Games.

Coventry said nan groups "will let america to meet deadlines, and bring important method expertise to these analyzable and important discussions, while realigning wherever we consciousness that it is basal to fortify our movement".

The Zimbabwean added: "These groups will person changeless feedback to make judge that everybody is afloat aligned and that each recommendations are afloat integrated."

The IOC said nan Olympic programme moving group will research nan relevance of nan disciplines astatine nan Games arsenic good arsenic nan scope of integrating caller sports into it.

"It will besides see nan proposal that accepted summertime aliases wintertime sports could transverse over, nan timing of nan Games, and nan sports calendar," it said.

The Youth Olympic Games group will look astatine nan imaginable and relevance of nan younker arena and return complete nan process of selecting nan big for its 2030 edition.