How the Paris Olympics volition beryllium remembered
Olympic gold-medalist Algerian Imane Khelif will beryllium banned from each World Boxing competitions until the boxer undergoes recently mandated familial enactment testing, World Boxing said. The organization announced Friday that it volition present mandatory enactment investigating to find the eligibility of antheral and pistillate boxers who privation to instrumentality portion successful their competitions.
World Boxing said Khelif would beryllium taxable to enactment investigating aft concerns arose from the boxer's imaginable information successful the upcoming Eindhoven Box Cup successful June. The enactment said it contacted the Algerian Boxing Federation to fto it cognize Khelif volition not beryllium allowed to enactment successful the pistillate class astatine immoderate World Boxing lawsuit until undergoing enactment testing.
"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 from World Boxing to the Algerian Boxing Federation states.
The determination to mandate investigating came successful portion owed to the contention surrounding Khelif after the boxer won a golden medal astatine the Paris Olympics.
Algeria's Imane Khelif reacts aft beating China's Yang Liu successful the women's 66kg last boxing lucifer during the Olympic Games astatine Roland-Garros Stadium, successful Paris connected Aug. 9, 2024.
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Khelif came nether aggravated scrutiny implicit misconceptions astir gender, fueled by claims from the International Boxing Association, which has been permanently banned from the Olympics, that some Khelif and different boxer failed unspecified eligibility tests for the women's contention astatine past year's satellite championships.
Khelif boxed for years connected the planetary signifier without immoderate sex issues oregon questions until the twelvemonth earlier the Olympics, erstwhile they were disqualified from the IBA's satellite championships.
World Boxing said athletes request to instrumentality a polymerase concatenation absorption (PCR) familial trial to find their enactment astatine commencement and their eligibility to compete, the enactment said. The test, which tin beryllium conducted by nasal/mouth swab, saliva oregon blood, reveals the beingness of the Y chromosome. The results volition find the biologic sex.
Studies person shown the PCR trial to find enactment is highly accurate. A 2023 study published successful Genes recovered enactment appraisal achieved an accuracy of 72% connected non-adults and 97% connected adults.
"World Boxing respects the dignity of each individuals and its overriding precedence is to guarantee information and competitory fairness to each athletes," the enactment said successful the statement.
CBS News reached retired to the Algerian Boxing Federation for comment.
Mandatory investigating procedures volition statesman July 1, 2025.
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