Chairman of the Coaches Council of the Russian Boxing Federation Edouard Kravtsov told that the Algerian victory Iman Khelif at the Paris Olympics arouses regrets compared to other athletes.
On Friday, Khelif defeated China’s Yang Liu in the 66kg boxing final at the 2024 Olympics.
“It only hurts me for the girls, their coaches, their teams as a whole, that the policy of Thomas Bach and his team allowed the theft at the Games. There is no other way to call it… They allowed a person with such tests to compete in women’s boxing,” Kravtsov told .
In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) suspended Khelif from the World Championships in India for failing to meet eligibility criteria. Following the gender test, it was proven that the athlete has XY chromosomes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) admitted Khelif to women’s competitions in 2024. Her results at the Games sparked strong reactions in the media and society. The Algerian woman complained of harassment on social media, her father showed her birth certificate to prove that the athlete was born a girl. IOC President Thomas Bach called for an end to discussions about boxers who failed the gender test.
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