Docs show Khelif was assigned female at birth, according to IOC.
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Now, the Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee and the IOC are speaking out about the misinformation on Khelif's gender and sex.Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, walks beside Italy's Angela Carini after their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France.
According to the IBA, neither athlete successfully appealed their disqualification and the decisions are legally binding. According to the meeting minutes in which the test results were discussed, the two failed to meet "one of the eligibility criteria." The organization's president, Umar Kremlev, told the Russian state-owned news agency Tass that the two women had XY chromosomes, however, ABC News has not independently confirmed this.
This means even though someone may genetically be born with the "XY" typical male chromosomes, their body may not produce or respond to testosterone and they would develop more closely to a typical "XX" female. The IOC slammed the IBA's 2023 decision in its recent statement. The organization argued that eligibility rules should not be changed during competition and rules should be based on scientific evidence.
The same rules have been applied at the boxing tournaments of the 2023 European Games, Asian Games, Pan American Games and Pacific Games, the ad hoc 2023 African qualifying tournaments in Dakar and two world qualifying tournaments held in Busto Arsizio and Bangkok in 2024 among others. "I am not here to judge or pass judgment," Carini told reporters after the match, according to NBC. "If an athlete is this way, and in that sense it's not right or it is right, it's not up to me to decide."
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