By Warner Todd Huston – 5 Aug 2024 – Breitbart

The International Boxing Association (IBA) held a press conference Monday to defend itself for its ban of two controversial boxers from claims that its decisions were illegitimate leveled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

In 2023, the IBA President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.

However, despite the 2023 disqualification and the stated testing results, the IOC ignored the IBA’s findings and allowed Khelif and Lin to fight in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris this year.

To excuse its own decision to include the two controversial boxers, the IOC has called the IBA’s testing “illegitimate” and said that the tests “lack credibility.”

The IOC has also opposed the IBA on other matters, and last year, it stripped the latter of its title as the world governing body for boxing over finances and governance issues.

The IBA, though, is defending itself in Monday’s presser and laid out the facts that both Lin and Khelif submitted to the gender tests during the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships.

The organization says the tests were conducted by an independent lab in Istanbul, and both boxers failed the chromosome test requirements to be categorized as women.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif (left) is at the center of fierce controversy after being cleared to compete in the women’s category at the Olympics despite question marks over her gender

The group added that both boxers were informed of the test results in writing and were given the opportunity to appeal the decisions.

Lin did not appeal. Khelif, though, did file an appeal but soon withdrew the filing and closed the case.

Dr. Ioannis Filippatos, the former Chair of the IBA Medical Committee and an OB/GYN with three decades of experience, offered expert testimony.

“Medicine is knowledge, it is not opinion … One passport can give to us the opportunity to be men, and, tomorrow when I go back to Athens, I can go to my government and change my name from Ioannis to Ionnia. That means I am a woman tomorrow? Please. The nature and the biological world do not change.”

When aggressively challenged by belligerent media in attendance, Dr. Filippatos spoke plainly about the gender test results for Khelif and Yu-ting.

“The medical result — the blood result — looks and say, the laboratories, that this boxer is male.”

Khelif has secured at least a bronze medal in the Olympics and will be on the path to gold if victorious against Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand on Tuesday. Both Khelif and Yu-ting are guaranteed medals after multiple comprehensive victories over female opponents.

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Boxing Exec: Olympics Were Warned About Fighter Who Failed IBA Gender Tests

By Warner Todd Huston – 4 Aug 2024 – Breitbart

An official of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) now says that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was warned ahead of time that at least one of the two controversial boxers who are tearing through female opponents in Paris had failed gender tests.

Hungarian István Kovács, the European vice president of WBO and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association, told the media in his country that the IOC was told in 2022 that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif had failed the gender test and was a male as far as his group was concerned.

In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.

“The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male,” Kovács told Magyar Nemzet. He noted that five boxers had been examined and all of them “were indeed men,” including Khelif.

In fact, Kovács says that he reported the test results to the IOC himself. He added that Olympics officials ignored him, adding, “But as unbelievable as it is, they have not responded to this to this day.”

The official also said that he had urged Hungary’s Anna Luca Hámori not to fight Khelif because he did not feel that Hámori had been properly trained to fight a man.

“The biggest problem is that Hámori can only realize her big dream of winning a medal at the summer games at the first Olympics of her life if she beats a man. She was simply not trained for this,” Kovács told the media.

Regardless, Hámori has engaged in some pre-fight hectoring by calling Khelif a horned male devil on social media but was forced to delete the post after the Algerian team filed a complaint with the IOC.

Krelif easily defeated the Hungarian on Saturday and will go on to the finals.

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Olympic Boxer Who Failed IBA Gender Test Declares ‘I Am a Woman’ After Big Olympic Win

By Warner Todd Huston – 4 Aug 2024 – Breitbart

Controversial Algerian Olympics boxer Imane Khelif defied the detractors and declared, “I am a woman!” after defeating Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamoni earlier this week.

Both Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting have failed the International Boxing Association’s gender eligibility tests gender tests, and both failed to medal in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. But this year, they are tearing through their female opponents.

In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.

Immediately after defeating Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, Khelif made only that brief comment in preparation for moving into the semifinals, according to the New York Post.

After defeating Italian fighter Angela Carini in only 46 seconds, Khelif faced Hungarian Anna Luca Haroni on Saturday and broke down in tears after taking the decision.

At this point in the 2024 Paris Games, Khelif is guaranteed to win at least a bronze this year because the Olympics does not have a third-place match for women’s boxing.

Khelif previously defeated Italian boxer Angele Carini — who quit the match after 46 seconds in fear of her safety.

The second controversial boxer who also failed a gender test, Taiwan’s Lin, easily defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan on Friday.

Khelif will face Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in the semifinal on Tuesday afternoon.

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