Session: Why This Is Everyone’s Fight: Protecting Sport From the Ground Up
Time: 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Date: Friday, August 7, 2026 Location: 0.6 - Keurzaal Track: Health & Wellbeing
Description
The rules written for elite sport never stay in the stadium. As the IOC moves toward genetic testing and eligibility bans, the effects travel downward into school gyms, local clubs, and the changing rooms where people first learn that sport is a place they belong. Genetic policing at the top gives permission to gatekeeping at the bottom: the harm lands hardest on those with the least protection. Representing a unified front, the Pride and Sports Foundation (P&S) convenes the following organizations for this session:
Henk Nijmeijer
Payoshni Mitra
Grace McKenzie
Jan Pieter de Lugt
Sarah Townsend
Docus Ajok