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Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with International Committee president Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender athletes from competing at the Olympics. CBC | Sports News
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Olympics make seismic ruling to ban transgender athletes from all women’s sports
The International Olympic Committee have made a major decision for the future of Olympics Sports with transgender athletes banned from women’s sport Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy
Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women’s events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. CBC | Sports News
Read More »International Olympic Committee urged to drop reported gender test plans for female athletes
More than 80 human rights and sport advocacy groups have called on the International Olympic Committee to abandon reported plans to introduce universal genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose a blanket ban on transgender and intersex competitors. CBC | World News
Read More »IPC boss Andrew Parsons encouraging people to ‘focus on sport’ amid return of Russian, Belarusian athletes
While the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milano-Cortina mark a milestone 50th anniversary, the atmosphere at the Games is undeniably charged by the full return of athletes from Russia and Belarus. CBC | Sports News
Read More »IPC stands firm on Russian athletes competing amid boycott warnings
Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Winter Paralympics under their flags and with their national anthems following a decision by the International Paralympic Committee General Assembly, its President Andrew Parsons said Monday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Some of the special athletes who elevated these Olympics
The Olympics has many issues, but what always remains true as every Olympics concludes — the athletes save the Games every time. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Russian athletes have sporting ban lifted at Paralympics with anthem allowed to be played
Russian athletes have been forced to compete under a neutral flag since the invasion of Ukraine. Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Russia is still waging war in Ukraine, but door opening for more of its athletes to compete
Twenty athletes from Russia and Belarus are competing at the Winter Olympics as neutral. Moscow has asked for its athletes to be fully reinstated in international competition, and sporting bodies are beginning to open the door to those once completely banned from participating. CBC | World News
Read More »Fact check: Fake CBC video on Ukrainian athletes at Olympics
A fake video featuring CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault is spreading misinformation about Ukrainians at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. The CBC’s fact-check team breaks down how a real video was altered to create the fake. CBC | World News
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