In the case of the performance of an Algerian woman who failed the gender test Iman Khelif At the 2024 Olympics, it is important, in a political context, not to run away from the real problem, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the air of the program “There is a topic” on .
Khelif reached the final of the boxing competition at the Paris Olympics. In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) suspended Khelif and Lin Yuting of Taiwan from the World Championships in India for failing to meet eligibility criteria. Following gender testing, the athletes were found to have XY chromosomes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared them to compete in women’s competitions in 2024.
— Should we treat with respect a representative of the Global South from Algeria who failed the XY chromosome test? Were you surprised by what is happening at the Olympics?
— We must treat countries and peoples with respect. It is just important that politeness does not distract from the real problem. Sports and the world Olympic movement have become victims of this. At one time, about seven years ago, we raised the problem, but they laughed at us, they said that this could not happen, that children change sex, that neutrality in this regard would be imposed. And today the world is horrified, the world does not know how to get out of this monstrous network of lies and propaganda, which imposes on a person not only a false, but a distorted idea of himself.
“We have close relations with Algeria. But there are things that cannot be ignored,” Zakharova told .
The Olympic Games will end on August 11.
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