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The participation of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting in the 2024 Summer Olympics in the female boxing event caused controversy as they had been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). The disqualifications came as consequence of the IBA stating that they failed to meet ...
Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting celebrates after defeating Bulgaria's Svetlana Staneva in their women's 57 kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Paris, France ...
They are both women’s boxing veterans, including at the Olympics, and do not win all of their matches. Khelif has fought other Italian opponents in the past. So why is this suddenly an issue?
Algeria's Imane Khelif, right, defeated, Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris.
The Paris 2024 organizing committee also made a statement, noting that “eligibility rules for athletes are set by the International Federations and by the IOC with regard to boxing for the Paris ...
The Russian-led International Boxing Association — the sporting body that disqualified Lin and Khelif from the world championships last year — reiterated its decision to bar both women from ...
Pursuant to the International Olympic Committee's mission of attaining full gender equality, the program continued to remain updated with the number of men's weight classes reduced by one weight category contrary to the women's side's increase by one weight category for a total of 7 men's and 6 women's events compared to 8 men's and 5 women's ...
The Olympic boxer who failed a gender test, but competed against women at the summer games in Paris was named among the top "Female Athletes of the Year" by the Associated Press. The move has ...