Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting have become caught up in a power struggle between the IBA and the IOC
Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting are caught up in a power struggle between the IBA and the IOC
An interesting coincidence here was Khelif was disqualified from the New Delhi World Championships in 2023 three days after she won an early-round bout against Azalia Amineva, a previously unbeaten Russian prospect.Olympics day 13 live updates: Tebogo beats Lyles to win 200m goldThierry Henry the personality who will lend star wattage to Friday’s Olympic final against Spain
The organisation’s history is also opaque. In 2021, it was announced that the boxing federation had paid in full an outstanding $10 million debt to Azerbaijani company Benkons LLC. In the same announcement, we were informed of a $7 million round of development funding to national federations. The IOC wanted details but didn’t get them.
So, the IBA held their press conference in the room of mirrors. Throughout the event technical glitches and noise disrupted Kremlev, who did not attend in person. He brought zero clarity and stoked fresh doubts over gender eligibility. He also referred to the opening ceremony and hitched himself to the offended Christians wagon.
Well, no you can’t. The IBA didn’t achieve clarity, they achieved what they wanted to and that was bedlam by successfully dragging the eligibility dispute into a wider war over gender identity.“The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure, especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years,” the IOC said in a statement. Correct.
But the IBA intervention was not about fairness or safety or about caring for some of their women boxers. It was a surge of aggression in an increasingly dirty turf war between them and the IOC.
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