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Kenyan runner Anyango banned for six years for use of testosterone and EPO

Kenyan cross country runner Emmaculate Anyango has been banned for six years after failing a doping test for testosterone and the blood-boosting hormone EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. READ: New mixed 4x100m relay added to 2026 World Athletics Ultimate Championship She said that she had not deliberately taken or injected any prohibited substances but the AIU were …

Taapsee Pannu Reacts to Imane Khelif Gender Row at Olympics: 'Why Are Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps Not Banned?'

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Taapsee on Imane Khelif controversy: Why aren't Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps banned

Private prescriptions of puberty blockers for children to be banned

Private prescriptions of puberty blockers to children will be banned in one of the Government’s last acts, it emerged on Wednesday. Dr Helen Webberley, who runs the offshore clinic GenderGP, said children should be given cross-sex hormones in addition to puberty blockers to give them the “right puberty”. The doctor called puberty blockers “safe and life-saving” in her first public …

Paul Pogba banned for four years for doping

France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned for four years for a doping offence earlier this season, Italian media reported on February 29. Pogba was provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal in September after testing positive for testosterone — a banned substance. Pogba’s positive doping test was also confirmed in a counter-analysis on a second sample in …

Britain’s Cycling Time Trials banned transgender women from competing in the female category of competitive events on Wednesday, while renaming the men’s category to ‘open’ to “promote inclusivity and fair competition” in the sport. “The Board of CTT will create a new body - a Gender Tribunal, to decide gender eligibility issues and provide sensitive guidance to those affected by …

French sprinter Halba Diouf feels she is being marginalised and hounded after her dream of participating at next year’s Paris Olympics was shattered when World Athletics banned transgender women from elite female competitions. But her ambitions were dashed in March when governing body WA banned transgender women who have gone through male puberty from competing in women’s events, citing a …

Paris: World Athletics has proposed continuing to allow transgender women to compete in the female category of international events, taking a different approach from other sports that have banned transgender athletes from elite female competition. In a statement, World Athletics said its “preferred option” is to tighten the rules surrounding eligibility but that it wants to use limits on testosterone …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Caster Semenya is listed to compete at next week’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion who is still banned from her favorite race, and still at the heart of one of sport’s most contentious issues. Semenya was listed on Friday for …

Trans women set to be banned from women's rugby