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Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif was embroiled in one other gender controversy over the weekend after World Boxing declared that the athlete can be unable to compete till a intercourse check was accomplished.
3 Wire Sports activitiesciting medical paperwork from chromosome assessments given by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) earlier than the 2022 and 2023 world championships, reported that Khelif’s DNA confirmed “markers with male karyotypes.”
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Gold medalist Imane Khelif of Algeria poses on the rostrum in the course of the medal ceremony for the ladies’s 66kg remaining boxing class in the course of the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris on Aug. 9, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“Chromosome evaluation reveals Male karyotype. No numerical or chromosomal anomalies detected at 450-550 banding decision,” a screenshot of the doc on 3 Wire Sports activities learn. The check was at an accredited lab in New Delhi, referred to as Dr. Lal PathLabs, earlier than the boxing championships.
Fox Information Digital reached out to World Boxing, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), the Algerian Olympic Committee and reps for Khelif for remark.
Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 championships earlier than a gold medal bout over gender eligibility points. IBA President Umar Kremlev launched a press release to Russia’s TASS Company about why Khelif was disqualified.
“Primarily based on DNA assessments, we recognized a variety of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as ladies. In keeping with the outcomes of the assessments, it was proved that they’ve XY chromosomes. Such athletes had been excluded from competitors,” Kremlev stated.
The Algerian Olympic Committee stated on the time that Khelif was disqualified for “medical causes.” Algerian media reported that Khelif was disqualified for prime testosterone ranges, in response to Reuters.
“There are some international locations that didn’t need Algeria to win a gold medal,” Khelif instructed Algerian Ennahar TV. “This can be a conspiracy and a giant conspiracy, and we won’t be silent about it.”
Khelif was thrust into the worldwide highlight after qualifying for the Olympics, with the gender controversy coming to mild. Khelif defeated Angela Carini within the preliminary battle in the course of the Paris Olympics, however the IOC defended Khelif.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif reacts previous to the match towards Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori within the ladies’s 66kg quarter-final boxing match in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the North Paris Area, in Villepinte on Aug. 3, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“Everybody competing within the ladies’s class is complying with the competitors eligibility guidelines,” stated IOC spokesperson Mark Adams. “They’re ladies of their passports, and it’s said that that is the case, that they’re feminine.”
Then, the IBA doubled down, saying Khelif – together with Taiwan’s Lin Yu-thing – had been disqualified from the world championships as a consequence of “a results of their failure to satisfy the eligibility standards for collaborating within the ladies’s competitors, as set and specified by the IBA Rules. This choice, made after a meticulous evaluate, was extraordinarily necessary and essential to uphold the extent of equity and utmost integrity of the competitors.”
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The IBA added that Khelif underwent two assessments: one in 2022 and the opposite in 2023. The IBA stated Khelif appealed the choice to the Courtroom for Arbitration of Sport however withdrew in the course of the course of, making the “IBA choice legally binding.”
Because the controversy grew, Khelif stored on successful and finally was awarded a gold medal.
All through all the controversy, Khelif has maintained that their gender is feminine. Khelif even filed a lawsuit towards detractors and critics on social media.
Earlier than World Boxing made its choice, Khelif was planning on collaborating within the 2028 Olympics regardless of President Donald Trump’s “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities” govt order was signed.
Imane Khelif, proper, from Algeria and Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary Struggle Every Different. (Scheldt/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures)
Khelif instructed ITV that the insurance policies don’t apply to the boxer.
“I offers you an easy reply: the U.S. president issued a call associated to transgender insurance policies in America. I’m not transgender. This doesn’t concern me, and it doesn’t intimidate me. That’s my response,” Khelif instructed the outlet.
“For me, I see myself as a lady, identical to some other woman. I used to be born a lady, raised as a lady, and have lived my whole life as one.”
World Boxing stated final week that Khelif should take a intercourse check earlier than with the ability to compete in sanctioned fights.
“Imane Khelif might not take part within the feminine class on the Eindhoven Field Cup, 5-10 June 2025 and any World Boxing occasion till Imane Khelif undergoes genetic intercourse screening in accordance with World Boxing’s guidelines and testing procedures,” a letter despatched by World Boxing to the Algerian Boxing Federation learn.
The letter additionally said that World Boxing determined to undertake obligatory intercourse assessments this month.
“These new eligibility guidelines had been developed with the specific objective of safeguarding athletes in fight sports activities, notably given the bodily dangers related to Olympic-style boxing,” the letter learn.
Imane Khelif, proper, and Angela Carini react after their battle. (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)
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World Boxing added in a press release that the brand new insurance policies are “designed solely to make sure the well being and security of all members in World Boxing competitions (together with Imane Khelif) and isn’t deemed to in any method pre-judge the end result of any testing that can be launched as a part of the brand new coverage on ‘Intercourse, Age and Weight.’”
Fox Information’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox Information Digital.
