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Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport

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Abstract

The Paris 2024 Olympic boxing competition, featuring athletes with alleged male advantages in the female category, has reinvigorated controversy about eligibility criteria for women's sport. Recently, in this journal [1], we explained how endogenous testosterone production during male development leads to performance advantages arising from well-established sex-based differences in body size, muscle mass, endurance, speed, strength, and power. These physical advantages are so large that they necessitate a separate and protected female category that excludes male advantage to ensure fair and safe competition for female athletes. The unfortunate developments in the 2024Olympic Games compel these matters to be revisited

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Author(s): Tucker R, Hilton E, McGawley K, Pollock N, Grégoire M, Øyvind S, Howatson G, Gregory B, Carlson L, Chen M, Heron N, Kirk C, Murphy M, Pringle J, Richardson A, Santos Concejero J, Christiansen A, Jones C, Alonso J, Robinson R, Jones N, Wilson M, Parker M, Chintoh A, Hunter S, Senefeld J, O'Connor M, Joyner M, Carneiro E, Devine C, Pike J, Lundberg T

Publication type: Editorial

Publication status: Published

Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports

Year: 2024

Volume: 34

Issue: 8

Print publication date: 21/08/2024

Online publication date: 21/08/2024

Acceptance date: 10/08/2024

ISSN (print): 0905-7188

ISSN (electronic): 1600-0838

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14715

DOI: 10.1111/sms.14715

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/f0g2-nz74

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