International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.
Fumino Sugiyama, a transgender man and former fencer, is the latest addition to the Japanese Olympic Committee's (JOC) Board of Directors after being appointed yesterday.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given her support to transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard after she was selected to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
International Rugby League (IRL) has completed a consultation on transgender participation, with the organisation saying it will use the upcoming Women’s Rugby League World Cup to inform policy development and will adopt a comprehensive inclusion policy in 2022.
World Rugby has approved updated guidelines regarding participation of transgender people in sport; and have recommended that transgender women should not play women's contact rugby.
Transgender athletes could be banned from playing the traditional form of women's rugby because of safety concerns as part of a review being conducted by World Rugby.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) says it will discuss a bill passed in Idaho banning transgender athletes from competing in college events, with advocacy groups calling on the events to be relocated out of the state.
One storyline from last year’s Pacific Games turned a normally low-key continental event into an international talking point.
Existing International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines on the eligibility of transgender athletes will remain in place for Tokyo 2020, amid an ongoing consultation process.
World Rugby held a landmark workshop to help develop an equitable, safe and evidence-based, rugby-specific policy for transgender participation.
World Rugby will host a forum next week before undertaking a comprehensive review and evidence-based commitment to policies related to transgender players.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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