Athletistic / Boxing. Former head of the International Boxing Association (IBA) medical commission, Dr. Ioannis Philippatos, spoke about the performance at the Olympic Games in Paris (France) of boxers who failed the gender test. Recall that Algerian Iman Khelif and Taiwanese representative Lin Yuting will perform at the games.

Previously, they were not allowed to participate in the World Championships, but they managed to get permission to participate in the Olympic Games.

According to the doctor, we are talking about men.

We learned what the Hungarian boxer said during the fight with Khelif, who failed the gender test.

“The medical results, the blood test results say that these boxers are male. We are trying to understand why this happened. Khelif is a very good boxer, we have nothing against him. The problem is not that, but the fact that we have an answer from the laboratories. And this answer is not equivalent to the criteria, the technical rules of the IBA, I cannot tell you if they were born female,” the doctor said at a press conference.

Let us recall that both athletes reached the semi-finals of the Olympic Games.



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