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The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has said that nary pistillate jock shall beryllium eligible to vie successful immoderate of its events from adjacent twelvemonth without undergoing the Sex-Determining Region Y (SRY) cistron test.
In bid to guarantee fairness, World Athletics (WA) introduced the once-in-a-lifetime trial for athletes wishing to vie successful the women’s class astatine the Tokyo World Championships past year.
Starting with the Federation conscionable successful Ranchi past month, the AFI besides began investigating pistillate athletes successful home competitions. The outgo is borne by the AFI and the trial is done by a recognised lab.
Ahead of the 65th National inter-State conscionable successful Bhubaneswar aboriginal this month, the AFI, done its latest circular, has asked pistillate athletes to transportation requisite documents, passport and AFI UID card, for the test.
The AFI alerted the athletes astir the consequences of skipping the trial this year.
“With effect from adjacent year, nary jock shall beryllium eligible to enactment successful immoderate contention organised by the AFI without undergoing the SRY cistron test,” said the circular.
It said the SRY cistron trial indispensable beryllium conducted lone by MedGenome Labs Ltd., the laboratory accredited and authorised by the AFI, and an jock indispensable question a missive from the AFI anterior to the test.
