TOKYO (AP) — The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ultimately, not worth keeping, said she was faced with “a sadness that I could not share” after results from that test upended her life.

The man who discovered the gene that led to that test being developed called it “surprising that, 25 years later, there is a misguided effort to bring the test back.”

In a recent major policy overhaul, World Athletics brought back the test this year , requiring any athlete seeking to compete in the female category at world championships, which opened Saturday, to submit to the test by Sept. 1.

The federation portrays implementation of the SRY gene test, designed to detect a ‘Y’ chromosome found in males, as a common-sen

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