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Imane Khelif expelled from women's world boxing championship, has "high testosterone levels"

2025-02-06 21:21:15Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Imane Khelif expelled from women's world boxing championship, has
Imane Khelif

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been banned from the women's competition of the World Boxing Championships, which will be held in Serbia from March 8 to 16 in the city of Niš. This is a decision taken by the International Boxing Association (IBA) based on the "gender suitability" test carried out on the athlete in 2023, which would indicate the presence of XY chromosomes as well as a higher level of testosterone in his body.

This fitness test was not considered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which even called it "flawed and illegal" and excluded the IBA as the governing body of Olympic boxing.

Thus, Khelif was able to participate in the women's boxing competition in Paris 2024. The Algerian managed to take the gold medal, but also drew criticism from her rivals for her supposed advantage given by those higher testosterone levels, which even allowed her to finish matches in just 46 seconds, as against Angela Carini. The Italian was one of those who criticized Khelif's presence in the Olympic ring, believing that they were attacking "women's sport."

Already in Paris, during the boxing competition, the IBA showed the results obtained by both Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-Ting, also present in the women's competition.

“We shared the lab results with the IOC last year. Since 2022, there have been doubts and concerns from some boxers, at which time we did blood tests and gender tests on both boxers. We repeated the tests in 2023. These tests showed that the boxers did not meet the eligibility criteria and were therefore excluded from the World Cup,” said Chris Roberts, director of the IBA. And it was Dr. Ioannis Filippatos, former head of the IBA medical commission and a gynecologist, who clarified that neither Khelif nor Lin were biologically female and who criticized the IOC for using passports as proof of gender determination. “Medicine is knowledge, not opinion. A passport can give us the opportunity to be men and tomorrow I can change my name. Does that mean I am a woman? Nature and the biological world do not change,” he said.

However, Khelif has defended her status as a woman both in the ring, as Olympic champion against China's Yang Liu, and outside of it, going so far as to sue a French newspaper that revealed medical documents suggesting she had internal testicles, claiming they were fake. Six months after this triumph in the ring, and outside the Olympic arena, the International Boxing Association is once again questioning her fitness to compete in the women's category, barring her from competing at the World Championships in Serbia, a decision they had already made earlier, for the 2023 and 2024 world championships.

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