Protest at IBA’s ‘publication of false information’, while IOC calls for new boxing body to run sport for LA 2028
Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei embraces coach Tseng Tzu-Chiang after winning her quarter-final match against Svetlana Kamenova Staneva of Bulgaria. Photograph: Richard Pelham/Getty ImagesTaiwan’s sports administration has threatened the International Boxing Association with legal action over its “continued publication of false information” in relation to the gender eligibility row at the Olympic Games.
The Russian head of the organisation, Umar Kremlev, said in a rambling video conference call from an office seemingly located in Moscow that the athletes had been found to have “men’s level of testosterone”. He also insulted the IOC president, Thomas Bach, and describing the Games’ opening ceremony as “something horrible for all Christians and Muslims around the world”.
Algeria's Imane Khelif in action against Hungary's Luca Anna Hamori during the Women's 66kg quarter-final. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA The IBA was stripped of its status as a regulator last year over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance and the IOC has described the organisation’s alleged tests as lacking credibility. It has said that both boxers are eligible to compete in Paris as they were registered as women at birth and have passports in which they are categorised as female.
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