Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting competed at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago but were disqualified from the 2023 World Boxing Championships.
Algeria's Imane Khelif and Italy's Angela Carini today. Alamy / Abaca Press Alamy / Abaca Press / Abaca Press
Neither Khelif nor Lin are men or transgender: they have never been recognised as men; nor have they ever identified as men, as transgender, or as intersex . Khelif this morning advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s 66kg category after defeating Italian boxer Angela Carini.Remarkable scenes as Italian fighter Angela Carini abandons her bout with Imane Khelif after 46 seconds #RTESport #Paris2024 #boxing— RTÉ Sport August 1, 2024 Carini also appeared to refuse to shake Khelif’s hand and dropped to her knees in tears after the fight.
This detail was not included in yesterday’s statement by the IBA, which said the “specifics” of the tests undertaken by both boxers “remain confidential”. “When the IBA refused to jettison Kremlev and reform, the IOC withdrew their recognition of the IBA,” said Cooney. Tweeting today, former Irish Olympic boxer Emmet Brennan said: “The gender test came from Russian-backed IBA, who have an agenda against the Olympics for banning IBA from taking over the boxing program, so it would be hard to take what they say as gospel. Again the IOC didn’t do enough to clear this up.”
The 42′s Gavin Cooney said that sports at the Olympics are ordinarily governed by their own bodies and that the IOC has become the “ad-hoc governing body for boxing at the Olympics for the Tokyo and Paris Games”. The latest IOC guidelines say measures should be put in place to welcome people of all gender identities and to prevent discrimination based on sex variations.
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