The Boxing Olympic champion, Imane Khelif, must undergo a genetic sexual projection to participate in the next events with the new governing body.
World Boxing announced mandatory sexual evidence for all athletes on Friday. The governing body specifically mentioned Khelif when announcing politics, saying the Algerian Gold Medal Winner It must be selected before being approved to fight at any nearby event, including the Eindhoven Cup next month in the Netherlands.
“The introduction of mandatory evidence will be part of a new policy on ‘Sex, age and weight’ to guarantee the safety of all participants and offer a competitive level play field for men and women,” wrote World Boxing in a statement. The National Federations of the combatants will be responsible for administering the evidence and providing the results to world boxing.
Khelif won a gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games last summer in the midst of her and Taiwan’s international scrutiny, another winner of the gold medal. The previous governing body for Olympic boxing, the International Boxing Association dominated by Russia, disqualified both combatants of their 2023 world championship after stating that they had failed an unspecified eligibility test.
The IOC made the last two Olympic boxing tournaments after the exile of the IBRS for decades of misdeeds and controversy, and applied the rules of sexual eligibility used in the previous Olympic Games. Khelif and Lin were eligible to compete under those standards.
Khelif intends to return to international competition next month in Eindhoven as part of his plan to defend his gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, but some boxers and their federations had already spoken to protest their inclusion.
Chromosomes tests were common in Olympic sports during the twentieth century, but was greatly abandoned in the 1990s due to numerous ambiguities that the tests could not be easily resolved, collectively known as differences in the development of sex (DSD). Many sports changed to hormonal tests to determine sexual eligibility, but these evidence requires that government bodies make difficult decisions about the eligibility of women with naturally high testosterone levels.
Three months ago, Athletics of the world – The governing body for athletics – became the first Olympic sport to reintroduce chromosomes, which require that athletes who compete in women’s events undergo the test once in their careers.
World Boxing has been provisionally approved to replace the GOVERNMENT ORGAN IN THE LOS ANGELS GAMES, but has faced a significant pressure of boxers and their federations to create sexual eligibility standards.
World Boxing announced that all athletes over 18 in their competitions must undergo a polymerase chain reaction genetic test (PCR) to determine their sex at birth. The PCR test detects chromosomal material through an oral swab, saliva or blood.
If it is determined that an athlete who intends to compete in the categories of women has male chromosomal material, “the initial projections will refer to independent clinical specialists for genetic detection, hormonal profiles, anatomical examination or other assessment of endocrine profiles by medical specialists,” World Boxing wrote. Politics also includes an appeal process.
The decision of the boxing body is the last development in a tumultuous period in the eligibility policy of the Olympic sex. The question of transgender participation in sports has become an international inflammation point, with President Donald Trump and other conservative world leaders involved repeatedly.
Earlier this year, World Athletics also proposed recommendations that would apply strict transgender rules to athletes who were born women but had what the organization describes as natural testosterone levels in the typical male range. In 2023, world athletics prohibited transgender athletes who had made the transition from man to woman and had passed through male puberty.
The president of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, said he felt sure that the new rules of the body would resist legal challenges.
Khelif, 26, had competed in female boxing events under the auspices of going without controversy to the 2023 World Championship. He had never gained an important international competition before his dominant performance in the Welter Women’s Weight Division in Paris.
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