Athletics-Coe confident gene testing will be completed for Tokyo worlds

Athletics - Diamond League - Final - Zurich - Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland - August 28, 2025 World Athletics president Sebastian Coe is pictured REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

(Reuters) -World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is confident that all female athletes at this year's world championships in Tokyo will have undergone gene testing, after snags left some of them scrambling to meet the September 1 deadline.

Athletes who arrive at the September 13-21 global event without having being tested can complete the process in the Japanese capital.