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Kenya’s world-record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum killed in car crash | Athletics News | Al Jazeera

Very sad beginning to an Olympic year. The marathon would have been 🔥 REST IN PEACE CHAMP 🙏🏾

#athletics #world athletics #kenya #rip #kelvin kiptum

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Please "like" this photo on @WorldAthletics Instagram page to vote for Ms. Shericka Jackson as Women’s World Athlete of the Year 2023 for her performances as World 200m champion and 100m silver medallist and Diamond League 100m and 200m champion.

The deadline to vote is October 28.

#shericka jackson #world athletics #athlete #olympian #jamaican #jamaican girl #jamaica #instagram #diamond league #diamond league champion

[carlosison]

Another bucket list item checked. I’m so filled with gratitude, it’s almost overwhelming.

#dreams really do come true #world athletics #indoor world championships #glasgow #scotland #2024 #personal #it me!

[gwydionmisha]

#World Athletics #Sebastian Coe Trans Inclusion #Sports #Trans Athletes #Trans #News

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He can still compete, he just can’t compete against women.

A trans-identified male runner took first place at a women’s race in France last weekend despite a recent rule change at an international level banning males from competing in female athletic competitions. 

Halba Diouf, 21, broke his personal record at the Nice Côte D’Azur Athlétisme (NCAA) Interclubs Open competition in Nice on May 7. His winning time made him the ninth fastest recorded “female” in French athletic history. 

He achieved a leading performance which nearly met the minimum time required for the Olympics, which Diouf has expressed interest in participating in as a “woman.”

However, due to recent rule changes proposed by World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics, male competitors who have gone through male puberty are not permitted to compete in the female categories of international competitions. 

World Athletics oversees regulations for a variety of race-related events, and previous guidelines allowed men to compete in the female division if they had suppressed their testosterone levels below a certain threshold – a standard which critics pointed out was set to as much as five times higher than the average amount of the hormone found in females.

Speaking about the decision by World Athletics Diouf in a recent interview, Diouf said: “I cannot understand this decision as transgender women have always been allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold … The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish and we are being refused that, we are being hounded … I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions.”

Diouf also took to social media to denounce his critics. On March 26, he posted a statement to Instagram asserting that he believed he had a right to compete against female athletes. 

“I am extremely angry, because I gave up too many things to come to this,” Diouf wrote. “If we have to fight to show our existence, we will! The hordes of angry people who moan that trans people are threatening the civilization they’ve built are right.”

Two weeks ago, Diouf appeared on France TV where he repeated his views on the World Athletics decision.

“The alleged intention to ‘protect women’ by exclusionary policies like this is insidious, even pernicious, and it is intended to deceive people, especially women!” he said. “In reality, these [regulations] are not protecting anyone and harm all women by continuing to monitor women’s bodies. They are indirectly being infantile without even knowing it, and that’s a pity.”

Diouf was born in born in Senegal, but his family immigrated to France when he was four years old. He has undergone cross-sex hormone therapy and legally changed his sex marker on his identification to read “female” two years ago. 

Diouf won a women’s 200m race in January 2023, just prior to the rule change by World Athletes. However, just days after winning the competition, his details were deleted from the list of participants. The French Athletics Federation (FFA) stepped in requiring more information about Diouf’s medical status and hormone levels to ensure they were in-line with World Athletics guidelines at the time for trans-identified males.

Diouf was found to have met the criteria. His endocrinologist, Alain Berliner, said the 21-year-old “is a woman, from a physiological, hormonal and legal point of view.” Only two months later in March 2023, World Athletics updated their guidelines. 

In a statement about their decision, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe argued, “We cannot in all conscience leave our transgender regulations as they were at 5nmol/L for at least one year when we were unsure about the impact of doing so across all our disciplines.”

“The decision that the council made is a primarily principled based decision about the over-arching need to protect the female category. This is what our sport is here to do. And I think the council has done that today.

“We continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations. We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years.”

After the decision, Diouf said in an interview that he was “shocked” but would continue to present himself to female competitions despite the rule change. 

The French Athletics Federation (Fédération Française d’Athlétisme – FFA) granted permission for Diouf to compete “up to the departmental level”, but his performances cannot be taken into account for an international selection, meaning he has been permitted to participate in national championships or for French women’s records. This allowed him to compete in the open competition on Sunday, where he won the women’s 200m race. 

World Athletics are not the only sporting governing body to update their policy on males competing in women’s sports. FINA, the international swimming world’s governing body, voted to ban trans-identified males from elite female competitions if they had undergone male puberty.

By Shay Woulahan

Shay is a writer and social media content creator for Reduxx. She is a proud lesbian activist and feminist who lives in Northern Ireland with her partner and their four-legged, fluffy friends.

#France #save women’s sports #Nice Côte D’Azur Athlétisme (NCAA) Interclubs Open competition #World Athletics

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So apparently, the mascot of the world athletics championship '23 in Budapest will be a racka sheep called YOUHUU (on the left) so I couldn't resist to make this meme.

(Although I must add: this is not even half bad as all the previous mascots (see this reddit thread), it's just that Pina-kun is too beautiful. And I definitely must add that I wish SO HARD this shit were Hungary's biggest problem. *sigh*)

PS: image sources.

#english post #beastars #pina #world athletics #de amúgy nem vagyok furry #mém

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mood

#i want to know what that's like #but i couldn't do pole vaulting if you held a gun to my head #i'm pissing myself in the run up and slipping #world athletics

[gamesandrings]

Ten random photos from Days 8 & 9 of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon this weekend.

#world athletics championships #oregon22 #wch oregon 2022 #yohan blake #isaac makwala #kelsey-lee barber #filippo tortu #marco arop #Kevin Mayer #noah lyles #nzubechi grace nwokocha #janek oiglane #haruka kitaguchi #track and field #world athletics

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WHY?

It’s an old question, and a frustrating one, too. But maybe a moot one, just the same: why can’t Athletics (track & field) break through into the U.S. mainstream?  Let’s begin with just the minor stuff, like nomenclature. As you can see by the use of parentheses in the opening graph, everyone else calls the sport “athletics”. But in America, we still call it “track and field.” Everyone else uses…

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#Dalilah Muhammad #Emma Bates #Eugene `22 #Keira D&039;Amato #Sara Hall #Valarie Allman #World Athletics

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World Record.

Hobbs Kessler's mile record (roads) of 3:56.13 is gone.

But maybe in setting a new world record of 3:54.56, the men's 800m world silver medallist just found his true calling- the mile and not just the road mile.

And while the 800m WR remains unassailable for now, surely El Guerrouj's mile World Record is vulnerable to this generation of milers?

#world athletics #track and field #athletics

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World Athlete of the Year Awards: Know all winners - the complete list

Winners list from 1989 to 2022 👏🏾👏🏾

#world athletics #awards #2023

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Women's U20 Race | World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst ...

#youtube #World Athletics #Women's Athletics #Women's Cross Country #2023

[gwydionmisha]

#World Athletics #Transgender Women #Trans Athletes #Sports #News

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

The amount of gold medals the US got amazes me

#like we're just so talented #world athletics

[meatculture]

both 4x100 finals in one evening is too much for my little bisexual heart

#world athletics