Sebastian Coa has told DW that if no action is taken against transgender athletes, the game of elite can “lose” the game.
The most powerful job in the COE World Sports is one of the seven candidates who died to change Thomas Bakh as the Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The issue of transgender athletes has come in a sharp focus in recent times, even at the pre-wanted rally of US President Donald Trump this month, Trump has “promised to keep men out of women’s game. “
Asked by DW whether the transgender athletes were threatened to women’s game, the UK’s Coa replied: “At the elite level, yes, they are.
“For me, the element of integrity around the game of elite women is really important because if you lose that trace, you lose women’s game. And this is not something that I am ready for counting . “
In their campaign manifesto, Koa clarifies her desire to “defense and promote” of the female category, indicating that the inclusion should not be preferred on fairness. As the chairman of world athletics, he decided to ban transgender athletes, who have gone throughout the puberty from the elite women’s competition.
However, the 68 -year -old would issue an empty ban at the Olympics if he is elected as IOC president on 20 March.
“This would be clearly a discussion for international (sports) associations,” said. “The way I have always operated is in cooperation. But while international associations and national Olympic committees have to maintain primacy on policies, it is greatly imported that the International Olympic Committee shows leadership and guidance at that place.
“I think (rules) must be clear, and they are not clear. And it has left many international spring in the country of any person of one type.”
Should the Olympic sex test be resumed?
A gender dispute attacked the boxing competition at the 2024 Paris Games after two-ting-two of Algeria and Taiwan, of which the IOC said that the women -ware said that the women’s -ware failed to fail unidentified tests in 2022 and 2023.
Critics of current policies have called for revival of compulsory sex tests, a practice that closed in the Olympics before the Sydney Games in 2000.
Referring to what happened in Paris, Koa said: “The examples we have seen in the past are examples that we should not face.” But he refused to prepare at the details of the sex test.
“There should be more verification to assess, but certainly to be done within global and international agreed medical compliance and functioning,” Koa said.
Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order, saying that the US government would now recognize only two sexes – men and women – and this thesis was “not variable.”
In response, Koa said that it was not for him “The way anyone had to take a decision to choose to live his life.
“If you want to do morality, do not be in politics, go to the church,” Hey said.
“I have neither a philosophical nature nor to prevent jurisdiction, nor I want to stop, by competing transgender athletes and enjoying the materials of the game. This is very clear.
Wada ‘confidence’ in Wada despite Chinese doping scam
A gold medal winner in 1,500 meters in the sports of 1980 and 1984 claims in the influential CV in sports administration. A former chairman of the British Olympic Association, he ran a successful 2012 Olympic dialect of London before becoming head of world athletics, known as IAAF in 2015.
If he gets a top job in IOC, he was running in Ukraine, in the midst of this, issues including Russia’s involvement in international sports would have to be dealt with; Reducing tension between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the US government; And the effect of climate change on the Olympic calendar.
Asked if he could guarantee whether there would be no Russian athlete under his watch in Owood 2026 Winter Olympics. If the war continues, Koa replied: “I think a systematic situation.”
On the issue of Wada, COE is more sympathetic, saying that it has “confidence” in a hugged organization.
The US government had helped cover positive tests of 23 Chinese swimmers before the Tokyo Games in 2021, amid the allegations, the US government has withdrawn its funds. The allegations emerged last year and a bitter war of words broke out between the United States and Anti. ,
“It is important that governments support Wada’s ambitions,” Koa said. “It is absolutely important that Wada’s work is in a very broad picture. It is about the integrity of the game. We believe in such a way that we work with Wada, and I have no reason to move that relationship forward. Looks. “
Climate Change is a challenge for the Olympic calendar
Meanwhile, as the temperature rises worldwide, COE indicated that it is open to search for alternative dates for the Summer Olympics.
“Sport is not hermetically sealed,” Heer said. “My own game depends on the events of endurance, and if we are real for our words about the welfare of athletes, we’re not going to continue to keep them in the summer months. And it is not just not. Is the summer months in Bay or Asia or South America.
Edited by: Matt Pearson
