IAAF on Caster: It's not true that we're targeting an individual athlete | Sport24news
"why are you targeting one athlete?""Some commentators have suggested that the regulations were directed at an individual athlete. That is not true. The IAAF is bound by strict confidentiality and so simply cannot - and will not - disclose the number of other athletes affected, or the identities of those athletes"We have seen in a decade and more of research that approximately 7.
"This frequency of DSD individuals in the elite athlete population is around 140 times higher than you will find in the general female population, and their presence on the podium is much more frequent even than this. The CAS accepted that this demonstrates, in statistical terms, that they have a significant performance advantage.
"The only genetic difference that elite sport does not celebrate is the genetic difference between men and women . That is because XY chromosomes produce testes , which produce testosterone in the typical male range , which is what produces men’s bigger and stronger bones and muscles and higher haemoglobin levels, which gives them a massive performance advantage over women.
"CAS accepted this, and therefore accepted that the main driver of the marked sex difference in sport performance is the physical advantages conferred by having testosterone levels in the male range rather than the normal female range ."
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