The Ski Director of Ski approves the eligibility test policy between the sexes

The skiing director of skiing approved a gene test policy for gender eligibility in female events on Wednesday, but delayed a decision to let certain Russian athletes try to qualify with neutral status for the winter Olympic Games next year.

The International Federation of Ski and Snowboard (FIS) said that it would work with the leaders of the national team on the implementation of the policy, which follows the example taken by the world athletics athletics.

“The conditions of eligibility presented in the policy are based on the presence or absence of the so-called SRY gene, the gene determining the sex present on the chromosome y of the man,” said FIS in a press release.

It was not clear to what extent the athletes with the Sry gene had previously participated in female events in FIS disciplines, which include alpine skiing and cross -country skiing, ski jump, snowboarding and freestyle skiing.

The president of the FIS, Johan Eliasch, and the head of the world of athletics, Sebastian Coe, campaigned as candidates for the international elections of the Olympic committee promising this year to protect the women’s category.

“This policy is the cornerstone of our commitment to protect the sport of women,” said Eliasch on Wednesday in a FIS press release, “and we are convinced that there is only one fair and transparent way to do so: based on science and biological facts.”

The IOC now has its first wife president, twice the Olympic swimmer, the swimmer Kirsty Coventry from Zimbabwe, who supervised the creation of an expert working group to examine gender problems in sports.

A problem for athletes in France and Norway, which are both strong in winter sports, is that the two countries have national laws prohibiting gene tests for non -medical reasons.

Before the world athletics championships in Tokyo this month, French and Norwegian athletes were tested after their arrival in Japan.

Fis did not publish a calendar for a test program. The Milan-Cortina winter games of Ampezzo open on February 6.

Russian athlete policy

FIS prohibited Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions in the days following the complete military invasion of Ukraine from February 2022. The war began four days after the closing ceremony at the Beijing Winter Games, where the Russian athletes won 32 medals, including five gold medal, and the Biélarus team won two money.

The FIS ruling council discussed Wednesday but did not make a decision on the extent of the ban or approval of a policy of neutral status for individual athletes before the next Olympic Games. The council then met on October 21.

The IOC prohibited Russia and the Bélarus of team sports in summer matches and winter matches. It was advisable to the Olympic sports guiding bodies to give some of the athletes at the war of country athletes – if they had not publicly supported the war and were not linked to military and state security services.