COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The new policy, announced Monday with a quiet change on the USOPC’s website and confirmed …
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U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee will comply with Trump’s ban on transgender women in women’s sports
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its policies to say it would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports. The committee made the change in an updated “Athlete Safety Policy,” posted to their website Monday, which does not mention the word transgender in any of its 27 pages. But the document …
Read More »Medals for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games revealed
On Tuesday, 15 July at 3.30 p.m., Milano Cortina 2026 unveiled the medals for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The medals, which were revealed during an event in Venice, (capital of Veneto, one of the host regions of the Games), presented by Olympian and Head of the Ambassador Programme for Milano Cortina 2026, Valentina Marchei, are a celebration …
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