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National Post
01-07-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Boxer Imane Khelif breaks silence over IOC's new rules to protect women
Article content Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif spoke out after the new International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry announced policies to ' protect the female category ' at future games. Article content Khelif, 26, won the gold medal in the women's 66 kg division at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but the Algerian's victory was marred by controversy over reports that she allegedly failed gender eligibility tests, resulting in the athlete being one of two competitors — the other, Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting — barred from the 2023 World Championships. Article content Article content Article content Khelif has maintained that she is female, and not transgender, but a recently leaked medical report summarized the findings on the boxer as 'abnormal,' stating: 'Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.' Article content While there have been calls for Khelif to return the gold medal, Coventry said in her announcement last month that despite the rules change, the boxer would be allowed to keep her Olympic title. Article content However, the boxer took to Instagram to share a selfie and defiant message: 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.' Article content The Olympian also included lyrics from Sia's song 'I'm Still Here,' which speaks of perseverance and survival, in the post that has since been deleted. Article content Article content 'It was fully agreed that as members that, as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on protection of the female category,' Coventry said in the livestreamed meeting, according to Fox News. Article content 'But it was fully agreed that as members that, as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on the protection of the female category,' Coventry continued. Article content 'We have to do that to ensure fairness. And we have to do it with a scientific approach. And with the inclusion of the international federations who have done a lot of work in that area.' Article content Khelif's boxing future remains uncertain. Article content World Boxing, which has since been recognized by the IOC as the sport's international federation, has introduced mandatory sex testing and said Khelif would not be able to compete in the female category and defend her Olympic title until she undergoes the test. Article content
News.com.au
01-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Imane Khelif speaks out after Olympic gender test bombshell
Imane Khelif, the Olympic boxer who was at the centre of controversy surrounding her gender and her gold medal boxing victory at the Paris Olympics, has spoken out for the first time after the International Olympic Committee announced new rules to 'protect the female category' in Olympic sports. Questions about Khelif's gender popped up during her run to Olympic boxing gold last summer, stemming from a failed test result from a gender eligibility test she took that barred her from the 2023 World Championships, the NY Post reports. Khelif appeared to respond to the IOC decision days ago to form a working group that will be tasked with safeguarding women's sports, and the new IOC policy is expected to ban transgender athletes as well as those with differences of sexual development from taking part in the female category. In a post on Monday, Khelif wrote in an Instagram Story, ​​'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.' The post also included the song 'I'm Still Here' by Sia. Khelif was assigned female at birth and is not transgender, but faced questions about her gender during the Olympics, causing some to question the fairness of the boxer to compete in the sport's female category during the Paris Games. She has faced calls for her to be stripped of her gold medal recently, which included the president of the International Boxing Association. The controversy was brought back into the spotlight earlier this month as well, after 3 Wire Sports published leaked test results from 2023, which appeared to show she had male XY chromosomes. New International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry said during her first meeting that there would be no action taken 'retrospectively' in regards to past results that were in question. It was during that same meeting that Coventry announced her plan to have the IOC address the issue of transgender athletes competing in female sports. 'It was agreed by the members that the IOC should take a leading role in this,' Coventry said during the livestreamed meeting, according to The Guardian. 'And that we should be the ones to bring together the experts and the international federations and ensure that we find consensus. 'We understand that there will be differences depending on the sports. But it was fully agreed that as members that, as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on protection of the female category.'
The Independent
26-06-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Kirsty Coventry vows that IOC will ensure fairness for female athletes
Retrospective action will not be taken over the controversial Olympic boxing tournament in Paris last summer but ensuring fairness for female athletes in future has the 'overwhelming support' of International Olympic Committee members, new president Kirsty Coventry has said. The event in Paris sparked controversy after two athletes – Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting – won gold medals despite having been disqualified from the previous year's World Championships for allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria. World Boxing, which has since been recognised by the IOC as the sport's international federation, has introduced mandatory sex testing and said Khelif would not be able to compete in the female category until she undergoes the test. Khelif has always insisted she was born a woman, has lived as a woman and has competed as a woman. The IOC faced criticism for its handling of the row in Paris and for a perceived failure to lead on this issue more widely. Now Coventry, in one of the first acts of her presidency, said there was unanimous backing from IOC members to establish a broad consensus, and announced a working group was being formed to focus on the protection of female sport. She insisted however that nothing the group came up with would have any impact on events in Paris. 'It was very, very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category. First and foremost, we have to do that to ensure fairness,' Coventry said at a briefing on Thursday. 'There was overwhelming support from all of the members… that we should protect the female category. 'It was agreed by the members that the IOC should take a leading role in this, and that we should be the ones to bring together the experts, bring together the international federations and ensure that we find consensus. 'We understand that there will be differences depending on the sports, but it was fully agreed that as members and as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on the protection of the female category. 'We're not going to be doing anything retrospectively. We're going to be looking forward. From the members that were here (the sentiment) was 'what are we learning from the past, and how are we going to leverage that and move that forward to the future?'' Many sports, including athletics, cycling and swimming, have tightened their rules at the global level to bar competitors who have been through any stage of male puberty from the female category. In March, World Athletics gave the go-ahead for swab tests to determine biological sex and eligibility for its elite female category. Coventry added that World Athletics would be one of the global federations that would have 'a seat at the table' in the discussions. 'Every sport is slightly different, but it was pretty much unanimously felt that the IOC should take a leading role in bringing everyone together to try and find a broad consensus, so that really is what will be guiding the working group,' she added. Coventry, who officially became IOC president on Monday, said the working group membership and terms of reference would be decided in the next few weeks but said it was too soon to set further timelines on when any recommendations might be brought forward. United States president Donald Trump said earlier this year he would deny visas to transgender athletes seeking to compete in female categories at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028. A UK Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, which clarified the wording of the 2010 Equality Act, has already led a number of sports governing bodies to amend their transgender inclusion policies, including the Football Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board. Coventry said members had also called for a review of when and how future Olympic Games hosting decisions would be taken, saying there was a desire from IOC members to be more heavily involved in the process. She said the review would not have any impact on existing dialogue with countries which had expressed interest in hosting future events.
Fox News
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
You Got Suckered
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Reuters
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
World Boxing's membership list grows past 100
May 22 (Reuters) - World Boxing now counts over 100 national federations as members after its executive board approved 17 more applications to increase its list to 106, World Boxing said on Thursday. World Boxing, established in 2023 amid concerns over the governance of the International Boxing Association (IBA), was granted provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in February, and will run the boxing competitions in the 2028 Olympics. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, boxing was run by the IOC after it stripped the IBA of recognition following its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance. Boxing was included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics programme after in March a unanimous vote from the IOC, ending years of doubt over the sport's Olympic future. The latest national federations to join World Boxing include those of Cuba and Ireland, two of the most successful countries in Olympic boxing, along with Spain, Mexico, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. "It means that (with the exception of Russia and the Soviet Union) World Boxing's membership now includes the 10 most successful countries of all time in Olympic boxing and 10 of the top 11 medal winning countries from Paris 2024," World Boxing said in a statement. World Boxing is set to host its inaugural world championships in Liverpool in September.
