Imane Khelif's gold medal win in the 2024 Olympics boxing event has been under a lot of scrutiny
The International Olympic Committee has made its decision on Imane Khelif potentially return the gold medal that she won at the 2024 Paris Games after calls were made for her to 'give it back'.last summer. However, her position was put in to the spotlight after the International Boxing Association questioned her eligibility to compete in the women's event.
After Bach's 12 year tenure at the top of the IOC, today Kirsty Coventry was announced as the president of the committee. In her very first meeting where she held a press conference, she seemingly gave the IOC's verdict on Khelif and the calls around her gold medal.this week, Kremlev was critical of Khelif's gold medal win in Paris and asked her to return it. He said: "The IOC is not fighting for the fairness in sport.
SPORTbible reached out to IOC for comment, but were told there was nothing to add further from what was said in the press conference.In her first meeting as president, Coventry announced that a new policy is expected to be introduced which would ban transgender and athletes with a difference of sex development from competing in female category events at future Olympics.The IOC suspended its recognition of IBA in June 2023 after recommendations from its executive board.
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