The Latest Breaking News from IOC

International Olympic Committee Allows Transgender Athletes to Compete After Initial Ban

For their part, transgender athletes who are biologically male and meet qualification standards will be able to compete in the male category.

Latin Times · Apr 18

Sir Craig Reedie obituary

Olympic administrator who helped secure the Games for London in 2012 and stood up to Russia over doping

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15

‘Disgraceful’: anger as World Aquatics allows Russia to compete under flag again

Ukrainian skeleton star Vladyslav Heraskevych expressed disbelief and said the sports body is acting as if the brutal war does not exist

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13

Chang Ung, North Korean ex-IOC member who brokered Olympic joint marches with South, dies

Chang Ung, a former North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee who once led sports exchanges with rival South Korea including joint marches of their athletes at the Olympics, has died at 87

The Independent UK · Apr 1

Is the Fitzroy River a suitable venue for the Brisbane Olympics, given it’s home to crocodiles?

Quite a few crocodile tears have been shed on the issue of the rowing and canoeing venue of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics.

The Conversation · Apr 1

The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new policy on the protection of the women’s category that will force thousands of elite women athletes from around the world to undergo genetic sex testing in order to compete.

The Conversation · Mar 31

Olympics Make a Disappointing Decision for the Los Angeles Games

A generalization that hurts all women.

The Mary Sue · Mar 30

Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

The International Olympic Committee announced a new policy on March 26, 2026, for women’s competitions: Every athlete must be tested for a gene called SRY, usually found on the Y chromosome. Males typically have a Y chromosome and females typically don’t, so the IOC says this requirement will exclude “biological…

The Conversation · Mar 30

France calls Olympic gender testing a 'step backwards' as other nations support policy

France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee's new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women's events a "step backwards", but other countries welcomed the move.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 27

Human rights experts raise concerns over IOC gender eligibility ruling

The Sport & Rights Alliance, along with over 100 other allied organisations, has called on the IOC to abandon its plans to mandate genetic sex testing

The Independent UK · Mar 27