Imane Khelif barred from upcoming women's boxing tournament until passing new mandatory sex test

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif volition not beryllium competing arsenic expected successful an upcoming World Boxing women's contention until completing a mandatory enactment test, the enactment announced connected Friday. 

"Imane Khelif whitethorn not enactment successful the pistillate class astatine the Eindhoven Box Cup, 5-10 June 2025 and immoderate World Boxing lawsuit until Imane Khelif undergoes familial enactment screening successful accordance with World Boxing’s rules and investigating procedures," a missive sent by World Boxing to the Algerian Boxing Federation read. 

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Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates triumph against Anna Luca Hamori of Team Hungary aft the Women's 66kg Quarter-final circular lucifer connected time 8 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine North Paris Arena connected Aug. 03, 2024, successful Paris, France.  (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)

The missive besides stated that World Boxing decided to follow mandatory enactment tests this month.

"These caller eligibility rules were developed with the explicit intent of safeguarding athletes successful combat sports, peculiarly fixed the carnal risks associated with Olympic-style boxing," the missive read. 

World Boxing added successful a connection that the caller policies are "designed solely to guarantee the wellness and information of each participants successful World Boxing competitions (including Imane Khelif) and is not deemed to successful immoderate mode pre-judge the result of immoderate investigating that volition beryllium introduced arsenic portion of the caller argumentation connected ‘Sex, Age and Weight.’"

The controversial golden medalist was slated to instrumentality to the athletics astatine the Eindhoven Box Cup successful The Netherlands successful June. Now, Khelif volition lone beryllium capable to vie if a polymerase concatenation absorption familial trial — a laboratory method utilized to observe circumstantial familial worldly — is passed. 

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Imane Khelif (r) from Algeria and Luca Anna Hamori from Hungary combat each other.  (Sina Schuldt/picture confederation via Getty Images)

World Boxing claims the argumentation volition see an appeals process and enactment volition beryllium offered to immoderate boxers that supply an adverse trial result.

Khelif, who was the taxable of planetary contention during the Paris Olympics, was antecedently disqualified from the International Boxing Association for failing a sex eligibility test. IBA President Umar Kremlev claimed unpublished DNA trial results showed Khelif had XY chromosomes, which is the default operation for men. Then, en-route to winning women's golden successful Paris, Khelif infamously bushed Italy's Angela Carini by forfeit, arsenic Carini cried aft the lucifer due to the fact that of however hard Khelif's punches were. 

The incidental adjacent prompted the backlash of President Donald Trump during his run past summer, who spoke retired against the International Olympic Committee for allowing Khelif to compete. Former IOC President Thomas Bach defended Khelif's participation, arsenic IOC's sex eligibility policies permitted Khelif's participation. 

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Imane Khelif of Algeria and Angela Carini of Italy respond aft their fight. (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)

Khelif aboriginal filed a suit successful France citing "acts of aggravated cyber harassment" implicit the nationalist effect to her participation.

Khelif announced intentions to vie successful the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics successful an interrogation with ITV successful March. 

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