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Olympics Boxer Imane Khelif Speaks Out Against Bullying Amid Gender Row
Olympics Boxer Imane Khelif Speaks Out Against Bullying Amid Gender Row Backlash
Her career has been under scrutiny following the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) decision to disqualify her from the Women’s World Championships in New Delhi in March 2023, alongside Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, on the basis that they had failed gender eligibility tests. The event only served to sew further seeds of confusion after IBA’s Russian president Umar Kremlev gave a rambling address via videolink, in which he stood by his description of Bach as a “sodomite” saying the IOC had insulted Christianity with its stance. Without revealing the details of the testing procedure or the exact results, IBA medical expert Ioannis Filippatos suggested that both boxers had the chromosomal make-up of a man, but added crassly they had been “not checked between the legs”.
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