The Worldwide Olympic Committee on Friday arrange 4 working teams, together with one on the safety of feminine sports activities and one other on industrial alternatives, because it appears to be like to reshape the Video games below new president Kirsty Coventry.
Coventry had already mentioned in June the IOC would spearhead discussions on gender eligibility standards in sports activities, 4 years after the ruling physique had urged federations to deal with the difficulty independently.
It mentioned on Friday the ‘Safety of the Feminine Class Working Group’, made up of specialists in addition to representatives of worldwide federations, will look into how greatest to guard the feminine class in sports activities.
The IOC didn’t present additional particulars or disclose the names of the members, saying they’d stay confidential to guard the integrity of the group and its work.
U.S. President Donald Trump has banned transgender athletes from competing in sports activities in faculties in america, which civil society teams say infringes on the rights of trans folks.
Trump has mentioned he wouldn’t enable transgender athletes to compete on the 2028 Los Angeles Summer time Olympics.
The IOC additionally arrange a working group to overview the Video games sports activities programme, the addition and removing of sports activities and the way doubtlessly winter and summer time sports activities might cross over.
“It’ll look to discover a stability between the scale of the Video games, the relevance of the sports activities and disciplines… It’ll additionally take into account the suggestion that conventional summer time or winter sports activities might cross over, the timing of the Video games, and the sports activities calendar,” the IOC mentioned.
One other group will concentrate on industrial and advertising and marketing alternatives, in an effort to reshape the organisation’s advertising and marketing plans whereas producing new sources of revenues. The IOC noticed a number of prime sponsors drop out in 2024.
The fourth group will likely be centered on the Youth Olympics and their relevance.
“They (teams) will enable us to satisfy deadlines, and produce necessary technical experience to those advanced and necessary discussions, whereas realigning the place we really feel that it’s essential to strengthen our motion,” mentioned President Coventry.
—Reuters
