World Boxing is to announce the decisions updated of the eligibility between the sexes in “two to three weeks”, following a consultation on the way the sport addresses a problem that threatened to derail the Olympic Games from last year.
President of the Sports Director, Boris Van der Vorst said that world boxing intended to have a “extremely complex problem” before the CUP boxing, the event starting on March 31 in Brazil.
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A row broke out in Paris Olympic Games On the presence of two boxers in competition in the female category, Algeria Imane khelif and taiwan yu-te lin. The two athletes had grown up and were still in competition as women but would have failed the tests of eligibility of the sexes Before the games of the former Boxing Disgrarity Director, the International Boxing Association (IBA). No evidence of these complaints has been provided publicly.
The two women had contributed without problem in the Tokyo games In 2021 and won gold medals in Paris despite the fury.
Boxing of the two Olympic Games was under the control of the Olympic International Committee (Ioc)After IBA was actually exiled due to alleged governance failures. THE Cio has no general criteria for gender eligibility, allowing individual sports to decide on the measures they use.
“I am for all boxers,” said Van der Vorst The guardian. “What happened in Paris was very sad, and I thought there was no appropriate procedure based on the accusations of the previous international federation (IBA). It seemed very inappropriate to me. ”
Imane Khelif was at the center of a gender row that threatened to overshadow the 2024 Olympic Games (Getty Images)
Van der Vorst explained that World Boxing had trained a working group by advice from medical experts and the independent female sports council to determine his new guidelines, and he warned the politicization of what has become an extremely thorny problem.
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“The main objective is to have a fair playground that ensures the safety of all participants,” he added. “We await the policy of our experts, but the priority for me is sports integrity and security.”
World boxing has recently cemented its status as a single sporting body after the The IOC has officially welcomed boxing in the Olympic foldWith a unanimous vote granting him the right to manage the competition in Los Angeles in 2028.
Khelif – who won gold in the 66 kg category in Paris – said this week that she was aiming to defend her title in Los Angeles, despite Donald Trump Adding her voice to the dispute and wrongly pretending that she is transgender.
“I am not transgender”, The 25 -year -old said in an ITV interview on Wednesday. “It doesn't concern me and it doesn't intimidate me.”
