Imane Khelif controversy: Boxing chief takes dig at Thomas Bach, demands apology for ‘abuse of women’ at Paris Olympics

It was astatine these Olympics successful Paris that the information of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif became a flashpoint arsenic the IBA had barred 2 boxers (Lin Yu-ting from Chinese Taipei too Khelif) from competing successful the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 successful New Delhi. But the IOC deemed some boxers to beryllium eligible.

Now a leaked aesculapian report, published successful Le Correspondant, allegedly seems to backmost the IBA’s findings. The study stated that Imane Khelif has a information that impacts intersexual development, often resulting successful ambiguous genitalia and limiting secondary antheral characteristics. The study was accessed by French writer Djaffar Ait Aoudia. It noted that Imane Khelif had interior testicles and an XY chromosome makeup, which whitethorn awesome a familial information known arsenic 5-alpha reductase deficiency.

After the study became public, the IBA was speedy to propulsion a punch astatine the IOC with IBA President Umar Kremlev demanding that Thomas Bach apologise for the maltreatment of women astatine the Olympic Games 2024 successful Paris.

“Everyone already knows the news. The International Olympic Committee has violated each sports rules by putting a antheral against a woman. Tests person again confirmed that Imane Khelif is so a man. Today, arsenic the President of the International Boxing Association, which upholds sex equality and protects some women’s and men’s boxing, I request that Thomas Bach and his squad some verbally and successful writing, apologizse to the planetary boxing community. Thomas Bach himself bears nonstop work for this, arsenic helium personally lobbied for this to hap – for men to vie against women. On behalf of each boxers successful the world, I request them to kneel and apologise to the boxing assemblage and to those girls who person been beaten and abused. Thomas Bach, I americium present waiting, arsenic is everyone successful IBA, for your authoritative apology,” IBA President Umar Kremlev said.