By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The names of experts appointed to an Olympic panel looking at female gender issues ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are not being revealed, the IOC said on Friday.
A working group on “Protection of the Female Category” in sports was promised by the International Olympic Committee’s first female president Kirsty Coventry when she was elected in March.
A key campaign theme was the IOC taking more strategy-setting responsibility in fallout from the furor around women’s boxing at the Paris Summer Games that was widely used then and since as a culture war issue , including by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The governing bodies of boxing and track and field now require female athletes to take sex tests , and the U.S. Olympic a