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Nadine Dorries welcomes FINA ruling on transgender athletes

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has urged other sports to follow the example of swimming’s world governing body FINA and bar transgender athletes who have gone through puberty from competing in women’s events. FINA announced the decision after an ...

20 Jun 2022 at 05:30

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Limerick's Fiona Doyle competes at World Short Course Championships

LIMERICK swimmer Fiona Doyle will compete in the heats of the 100m breaststroke later this Friday at the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Windsor, Canada. Twenty five-year-old Doyle is drawn in lane four in the fourth of seven ...

09 Dec 2016 at 08:00

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FIFA reviewing its gender eligibility regulations

FIFA has confirmed it is reviewing its gender eligibility regulations as world sports governing bodies scramble to establish policies that will make their competitions fair and inclusive across the board. The inadequacy or absence of existing ...

21 Jun 2022 at 15:37

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Laurens Bay lunges to unlikely Sandown success

Laurens Bay produced a remarkable finish to win the European Breeders’ Fund Betfair ‘National Hunt’ Novices’ Handicap Hurdle Final at Sandown. The Jamie Snowden-trained gelding had won one of his four previous hurdles, with the bookmakers ...

08 Mar 2025 at 14:40

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Transgender swimmers barred from female events if they went through male puberty

Swimming’s world governing body FINA has voted to ban athletes who have gone through male puberty from racing in women’s events. In addition, FINA will set up a working group with a view to establishing an open competition category, open ...

19 Jun 2022 at 23:24

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Nadine Dorries: Women’s sport must be reserved for those born female

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries says UK sport must follow swimming’s lead and ensure that only athletes born female are able to enter female competitions, saying the issue had been “ducked” for too long. FINA, swimming’s world ...

28 Jun 2022 at 20:11

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Sport-by-sport look at governing bodies’ stances on transgender issue

The decision by swimming’s world governing body FINA to ban transgender athletes from male and female competitions has put other sports’ policies in sharp perspective. The International Olympic Committee has indicated it will ...

21 Jun 2022 at 16:56

Lord Coe hints athletics could bar transgender women from female competition

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Lord Coe hints athletics could follow swimming in banning transgender women

World Athletics president Lord Coe has hinted track and field could follow swimming in banning transgender athletes from elite female competition. FINA, swimming’s world governing body, has voted to stop transgender ...

21 Jun 2022 at 10:04

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