Lord Sebastian Coe has supported the prohibition of Donald Trump of transgender athletes and promised to protect the 'integrity of female sport' if he becomes head of the International Olympic Committee (COI)
“Gender should not cancel biology, because … then you are in a really dangerous landscape,” COE said, the two -time Olympic gold medalist and current president of World Athletics.
The former British medium distance corridor, 68, is one of the favorites to take care of the IOC before the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
After his return to office, President Trump signed an executive order that confirmed that the United States government would recognize only two genres. Then, the president announced an order entitled 'Maintain men outside women's sports'.
He arrived after years of controversy around people like Lia Thomas and Blaire Fleming. Under COE, World Athletics already Forbidden athletes who have undergone 'male puberty' of competing against females
He has now warned that 'you would lose the sport of women … as simple as that' if you did not separate sexes in the Olympic Games.
The World Athletics Chief Lord Coe has supported the prohibition of Donald Trump of transgender athletes
The president recently announced an order entitled 'Keep men out of women's sports'
Swimmer Lia Thomas and volleyball player Blaire Fleming have caused controversy
The 68 -year -old man also addressed Trump's action during an interview in Piers morgan uncensoredsaying that “it appreciates the commitment to maintain the integrity of women's sport.”
“For me, this is absolutely the integrity of competition,” Coe said. 'When it comes to the female category in elite sport, it has to be sacrosanct.
“The reason, I think, is so important is that you cannot make young girls enter the sport and feel it or feel that at any stage there is a glass roof for their ability to act at the highest level.”
Swimmer Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win a title of Division 1 of the NCAA in 2022, while Fleming competed for the female volleyball team of the state of San José, with Several teams losing games against the Spartans.
'You just can't have this lack of clarity. So (at) world athletics, we were very clear, we follow science and I think that is critical. I think we have used moderate language. We are not rabid here, '”added COE.
'I am by nature a social liberal. I really do not choose, nor do I have any predisposition to tell people how to live their lives.
'But when it comes to the biology of sport, it is very, very clear. And I am really surprised that it has been such a controversial discussion as it has become.
COE does not believe 'at this time' that another category must be added for transgender competitors.
The Algerian boxer Imane Khelif (R) won gold at the Paris Olympic Games in the midst of scrutiny about its gender
The World Athletics Chief said he would pick up the Russian President Vladimir Putin
The 68-year-old man also said that the fury surrounding the boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-tin, who won gold in Paris in the midst of scrutiny about their gender, did it “uncomfortable.”
'There had to be more than a simple identification of sex in a passport, '' he said.
Russia and Belarus were prohibited by sending official teams from the Paris Games after the invasion of the country of Ukraine.
But Coe insisted that the phone would collect Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding: 'You have to talk to everyone … Of course you would. ”
Coe continued: “If you get to a situation in which you have a peace agreement (in Ukraine), then you would have to look very closely … (it is better) to have people in your sport instead of sitting out of it.”