Olympics: Peter Badel joins Matty Johns and James Magnussen on the Matty and the Missile podcast to chat about the recent Boxing controversy as Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting continue their Olympic campaign.
Women's boxing controversy continues | 07:05The International Boxing Association claimed Monday at a chaotic press conference that tests on two boxers at the centre of aThe IBA said previously that it disqualified Algeria ’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan ’s Lin Yu-ting from its 2023 world championships after the fighters failed gender eligibility tests, without specifying what the tests were.
IBA officials including Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, the organisation’s president, who was on a remote video call, gave a series of contradictory statements to a room packed full of reporters. “The medical result, blood result, looks -- and the laboratory says -- that these boxers are male,” said Filippatos.
IOC president Thomas Bach and high-level officials from Algeria and Taiwan have strenuously defended Khelif and Lin, saying they were born and raised as women, and have passports saying that. “We do not recognise the IBA as a legitimate institution, and it has no connection with the Olympic Games.IOC president Thomas Bach and high-level officials from Algeria and Taiwan have strenuously defended Khelif and Lin, saying they were born and raised as women, and have passports saying that.
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