IOC responds to boxing gender test scandal at Paris Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee has defended its decision to allow two boxers who failed a gender eligibility test to compete at Paris 2024.

Algeria’s Imane Khelif was disqualified hours before her gold-medal bout at the women’s World Championships in New Delhi last year after she failed to meet the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) eligibility criteria, that prevent athletes with male XY chromosomes competing in women’s events. Taiwan’s double world champion Lin Yu-ting lost her bronze medal at the same competition, after she too failed to meet the criteria.

But the IBA was stripped of its recognition by the IOC last year over governance and finance issues, with the Olympic body running the boxing competition in Paris itself, and it allowed both women to participate.

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In your opinion: Do both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting post testing, meet the required eligibility criteria to compete within the female category? (Why/Why Not)

That's not a matter of opinion, it's a fact that they meet the criteria set by IOC to compete in Olympics (unless revealed by tests otherwise).

The IBA has been stripped more than just IOC recognition. Among others, boxing associations of US, UK, Germany, Italy, Brazil, India, Nigeria and all Nordics have withdrawn and founded alternative organization World Boxing (that is hoped to run the sport in 2028 Olympics).

Also, IOC already ran boxing without IBA in Tokyo 2021, where also both of these women competed.