As a row over eligibility continues to overshadow boxing at the Olympics, we take a detailed look at the background to the dispute.
Boxing at Paris 2024 has been overshadowed by a row about the eligibility of two fighters in the women’s competition.But last year they were disqualified from the World Championships.
Kremlev is seen as having close ties to the Kremlin. Under his leadership, the IBA has had Russian state-backed energy giant Gazprom among its chief sponsors.after Dutch boxing federation president Boris van der Vorst was declared ineligible. At the time, GB Boxing said of its decision to boycott the championships that the flags issues had “put further distance between IBA and the Olympic movement in addition to the significant, longstanding issues over sporting integrity, governance, transparency and financial management which the IOC has asked IBA to address to protect boxing's place on the Olympic programme”.Russian athletes like boxer Azalia Amineva are prevented from competing at Paris 2024 for their country.
As a result of Khelif’s disqualification, 21-year-old Amineva had the only loss in her now 22-fight career removed from the record.The IBA said the fighters had "failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in the women's competition, as set and laid out in the IBA regulations".The BBC has, as yet, been unable to determine what the eligibility tests consisted of. It is not known how tests were overseen.
"There's a difference between a test taking place and whether we accept the accuracy or even the protocol of the test."Imane Khelif: IOC responds to boxing gender controversy "The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure - especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years.The IBA insisted its decision was "necessary to uphold the level of fairness and utmost integrity of the competition".
"The boxers fully deserve to be governed by an international federation with integrity and transparency." "We cannot conceal the fact that today's decision is catastrophic for global boxing and blatantly contradicts the IOC's claims of acting in the best interests of boxing and athletes."A new body, World Boxing, wasAmong five pledges, the new organisation says it will "keep boxing at the heart of the Olympic movement" and "ensure the interests of boxers are put first".
This placed the responsibility on individual federations to determine eligibility criteria in their sport. However, the rules have been applied differently so there are sports in which transgender women or athletes with differences of sex development can compete.
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