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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.
Instead, for the fourth consecutive day, the IOC’s briefing was dominated by questions about women’s boxing, gender tests, controversy, culture wars, a battle with the International Boxing ...
The IBA has no part in running Olympic boxing in fallout from a years-long dispute with the IOC. Paris Olympics boxing is being run by officials appointed by the IOC, which said Monday it is using ...
The IOC said the key criterion is the gender listed on the athlete's passport. [334] The IOC's decision was the subject of controversy and criticism, including from former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan and Australian boxing team captain Caitlin Parker. [335] [336] Controversy arose after Khelif defeated Italian boxer Angela Carini.
The boxing events in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics were managed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Paris 2024 Boxing Unit. [37] The IBA had been suspended by the IOC in 2019 due to governance issues under prior leadership; since then, Olympic boxing has been overseen by an IOC task force.
The IOC, however, stripped the IBA of its status as the global governing body for boxing years ago due to governance issues and judging scandals. As such, the IBA isn’t in charge of the Olympic ...
Qualification for the boxing events at the 2020 Summer Olympics is determined by the performances at four Continental Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (Africa, Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe) and at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament, all of which were scheduled to take place on two separate phases because of the consequent Olympic delay and the circumstances involved in the COVID ...
The IOC has relied heavily on the passport as an ultimate determinant of an athlete’s gender, but Adams allowed, in response to a question from Yahoo Sports, that there is a possibility that ...