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Men to be banned from women’s Olympic sports · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The International Olympic Committee will ban
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  Speaker 1: men from competing in women's sport in time for the
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  Speaker 1: next Summer Games in Los Angeles. The IOC's new president,
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  Speaker 1: Zimbabwean former swimmer Kirsty Coventry, reportedly is to announce the
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  Speaker 1: ban in response to a report to the IOC by
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  Speaker 1: its own medical and scientific director, Jane Thornton, said there
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  Speaker 1: were undeniable physical advantages for athletes who were born male,
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  Speaker 1: which remained even if they had gone through hormone treatment.
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  Speaker 1: In February, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning men
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  Speaker 1: from women's sports. With this executive order, the war on
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  Speaker 1: women's sports is over. Trump also said at the time
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  Speaker 1: he would deny a visa to any transgender athlete who
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  Speaker 1: wants to compete at the twenty twenty eight Olympics in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Our system D. The Times in London is
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  Speaker 1: reporting the ban will also apply to athletes who are
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  Speaker 1: classified DSD differences of sex development, like boxes Imman Kehlief
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  Speaker 1: and Lynn Yuting, who won gold medals at the Paris
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Games. Both had been disqualified from Boxing
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  Speaker 1: World Championships the previous year after boxing authorities ruled they
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  Speaker 1: had failed to meet gender eligibility criteria. Imman Khalif, who
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  Speaker 1: is Algerian, says she was born female and has always
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  Speaker 1: identified and competed in female categories. Despite widespread reporting of
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  Speaker 1: the looming ban, Olympic officials say the IOC Working Group
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  Speaker 1: is continuing its discussions and no decisions have been made.
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  Speaker 1: Britney Higgins is likely to be declared bankrupt less than
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  Speaker 1: three months after she was ordered to pay former Senator
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  Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds well over a million dollars in defamation, damages
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  Speaker 1: and legal expenses. Reynolds, who was Higgins's boss at the
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  Speaker 1: time she accused Bruce Lamon of rape, a claim he's
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  Speaker 1: always denied, has filed a creditors petition against Higgins and
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  Speaker 1: will seek to have a trustee in bankruptcy appointed to
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  Speaker 1: take control of her property and financial affairs. Today marks
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  Speaker 1: fifty years since Governor General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister GoF Whitlam, and modern politicians are maintaining the rage.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi said earlier this week the dismissal
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  Speaker 1: was a partisan ambush. Liberal MP Julian Lisa has defended
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  Speaker 1: the actions of Kerr, who he said was acting in
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  Speaker 1: accordance with a widely accepted understanding of his powers as
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  Speaker 1: Governor General to execute and maintain the Constitution. You can
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