World Athletics says 95% of female athletes have completed sex testing ahead of world championships

TOKYO (AP) — Nearly all female athletes have completed sex testing ahead of the athletics world championships this month in Japan.

World Athletics said Tuesday that more than 95% percent of tests — a genetic screening to determine the athlete's sex at birth — have been completed in the lead up the world championships that will take place in Tokyo beginning this weekend.

The governing body for track and field said the remainder of the tests — for the French and Norwegian teams and some athletes based in France, both being countries where genetic testing for non-medical reasons is banned — will be done in Tokyo before the start of the competition.

"This has been a whole sport response to a principle that we all fundamentally believe in, which is to protect the female category,” World Athl