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Interesting tidbit buried inside the reporting.

Coe added that a working group would be set up to do further research into transgender eligibility guidelines and insisted that 'we're not saying 'no' forever'.

He also announced stricter rules on athletes with differences in sex development (DSD).

Under previous regulations, DSD athletes only faced restrictions in events ranging from 400 metres to a mile, which prevented double 800 metres Olympic champion Caster Semenya from competing.

However, DSD athletes in all other events must also now reduce their testosterone levels to 2.5 nmol/L for at least six months, meaning Christine Mboma, the Olympic 200m silver medallist, is ineligible to compete at this summer's World Championships in Budapest.

They’ve finally decided that the farce of having doped athletes that just happen to have natural doping organs are not going to be able to compete without reducing their testosterone levels to that of a normal woman. Eminently sensible and a good decision.

The Caster Semenya situation was ridiculous.