Overview
- AFI said Saturday it will start one-time SRY gene screening for women at next month’s Federation Cup in Ranchi.
- Screening will expand to national meets in Bhubaneswar, Ludhiana and Delhi, and will be required at events that award World Athletics ranking points.
- The federation cut the price to ₹3,500 per test by tying up with a World Athletics–accredited lab and will pay the lab directly.
- Results will be uploaded to the World Athletics database and then deleted, and AFI will check IDs during sampling to stop impersonation, a problem it called rampant.
- AFI will also collect athletes’ DNA for research on training and injury prevention, starting with top performers and keeping the data confidential, not for talent spotting.