International Olympic Committee face legal action for letting gender-row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting fight at the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee are being sued for letting gender-row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting vie astatine Paris 2024.

Algerian Khelif and Yu-ting of Taiwan some won golden medals astatine past summer’s Olympics contempt being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing sex eligibility tests.

Now the International Boxing Association – the Russian-led assemblage who administered those disputed 2023 tests – person launched ineligible enactment against the IOC.

Citing President Trump's caller enforcement bid banning transgender women from pistillate sports successful the USA, the IBA said they were filing complaints to the lawyer generals of Switzerland, France and the USA ‘regarding the IOC’s actions that facilitated the information of these ineligible athletes’.

The IBA assertion that, according to Swiss law, ‘any enactment oregon inaction that poses a information hazard to contention participants warrants probe and whitethorn service arsenic grounds for transgression prosecution’.

The organisation person besides offered to financially enactment immoderate Paris 2024 boxers who privation to prosecute ineligible action.

‘President Trump’s bid to prohibition transgender athletes from women’s athletics validates IBA’s efforts to support the integrity of pistillate sports,’ said IBA president Umar Kremlev. ‘Our actions purpose to guarantee sex equality successful boxing.

‘IBA volition supply free-of-charge broad ineligible enactment to our boxers successful these lawsuits, arsenic this is simply a wide usurpation of quality rights, an outrage towards the pistillate boxers, and simply a transgression that should beryllium punished accordingly.

‘In my idiosyncratic opinion, (IOC president) Thomas Bach should instrumentality the afloat work for this, arsenic helium was successful complaint erstwhile it happened, and helium needs to compensate the damages caused, if the tribunal oregon immoderate different lawsuit rules this.’

The IOC stripped the IBA of their presumption arsenic the sport’s satellite governing assemblage successful 2023 citing concerns implicit morals and finances.

It meant the boxing tourney astatine past summer’s Olympics was ran by the IOC, who fto Khelif and Yu-ting vie successful Paris, claiming the IBA had not produced immoderate grounds of their failed sex eligibility tests.