“Everyone has the right to practice sports without discrimination“. Thus begins the long press release with which the International Olympic Committee (That is) officially takes a position on the case of ImaneKhalif. The IOC defends the Algerian boxer, who won her boxing match against Angelacute to the Olympic Games Of Paris 2024: the blue one has chosen to to withdraw After a few seconds. The Prime Minister GeorgiaMelonsas well as all the right Italian, he relaunched his accusations: “It was not a match on equal terms”. According to them, the Algerian boxer should not have participated in the Games. According to the IOC rules, however, she should: Khelif – as far as we know – is an intersex athlete And hyperandrogynous. That is, a woman with an excessive production of male hormones (androgens), particularly testosterone. The International Boxing Federation (IBA) excluded the Algerian from the 2023 World Championships because she had “XY chromosomes”, while according to the tests required by the International Olympic Committee her values respect the thresholds established to compete in fieldfemale.
In its long statement, the IOC contests precisely those test carried out by theIBAwhich excluded from the World Cup both Imane Khelif That Lin Yu-ting. “All athletes participating in the boxing tournament of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games respect the regulations Of admissibility and of registration from the competitionas well as all the medical regulations applicable rules established by the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit (PBU)”. The IOC recalls that these rules “were also applied during the qualification period”, thus defending once again the choice to allow Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting to participate in the Games. “The PBU used the boxing rules of Tokyo 2020 as a basis for developing its regulations for Paris2024. This is to minimize the impact on the athletes’ preparation and ensure the consistency among the Olympic Games. These Tokyo 2020 rules were based on the Post-Rio 2016 ruleswhich were in force before the suspension of the International Boxing Federation by the IOC in 2019 and the subsequent withdraw of his recognition in the 2023“.
So the ridecrucial of the statement: “We have seen in the reports misleading information on two female athletes competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The two athletes have been competing for many years in international competitions of boxing in the women’s category, including the Tokyo Olympics 2020i World Championships of the International Boxing Association (IBA) and tournaments sanctioned by the IBA. These two athletes were victims of a decisionsudden And arbitrary by the IBA. Towards the end of the 2023 IBA World Championships, they were suddenly disqualified without any due process,” accuses the IOC.
Indeed, the press release continues, “according to the IBA minutes available on their website, this decision was initially taken only from the General secretary and from theCEO of the IBA. The IBA Governing Council ratified it only later and only later requested that a procedure to be followed in similar cases in the future be established and reflected in the IBA Regulations. The minutes also state that the IBA should ‘establish a clear procedure on gender tests’. The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this decisionarbitrarytaken without any proper procedureespecially considering that these athletes had been competing at high levels for many years.” “Such an approach is contrary to the good governance“, the IOC attacks again. Which then underlines again: “The rules of admissibility They must not be modified during the ongoing competition and any changes to the rules must follow the appropriate procedures and be based on scientific evidence.” The statement concludes: “The IOC is committed to protecting the human rights of all athletes participating in the Olympic Games, as per the Olympic Charter, the IOC Code of Ethics and the IOC Strategic Framework on Human Rights. The IOC is saddened by the abuse that the two athletes are currently undergoing”.
