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World Athletics has approved the introduction of mandatory cheek swabbing to determine an athlete’s gender, with the organisation’s president Sebastian Coe saying the decision was taken to "doggedly" protect the female category.
It is understood World Athletics’ intention is to have the testing in place for athletes wanting to compete in the female category at the World Championships in Tokyo from September 13-21.
Coe said on Tuesday: "It’s important to do it because it maintains everything that we’ve been talking about, and particularly recently about not just talking about the integrity of female women’s sport but actually guaranteeing it.
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