Former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe has said the International Olympic Committee needed clear-cut policies to protect women’s sport to avoid controversies such as the one in boxing at this year’s Paris Games. Coe is one of seven people in the running to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee after Thomas Bach and made it very clear he would push for immediate change in the participation of trans athletes and those with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) in women’s events, reported Reuters. Athletics was at the forefront of formulating a policy that largely excluded them, but the IOC failed to follow suit, instead handing the responsibility to individual sports federations. When the IOC took over the running of amateur boxing for the Paris Olympics, however, that lack of clarity was thrust into the spotlight by the gold medal success of Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who had previously been banned after adverse sex chromosome tests. “I felt uncomfortable with that,” Coe said. “I think the lesson was that you need clear-cut …