Boxers Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria were cleared to compete
in this year’s Olympics, a spokesperson said this week, despite being disqualified from last year’s World Boxing Championships due to failed gender eligibility tests.
The different status of Lin and Khelif at the Olympics and worlds is fallout from the years-long dispute between the IOC and the Russian-led IBA over alleged failures of governance and integrity, plus reliance on funding from state energy firm Gazprom. Additionally, AP’s article says the boxers were “judged to have failed” the gender eligibility tests, while The Telegraph and others simply said they “failed the tests.”
For most other sports, the IOC relies on international governing bodies. In explaining its decision to use its own ad-hoc unit over the IBA, the IOC said its unit"endeavoured to restrict the amendments to those that increase transparency, fairness and credibility while limiting their impact on the actual sport practice for the Boxers."
Meanwhile, those concerns were the main angle on the right, with some going as far as describing the boxers as males competing against females.
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