Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif is difficult the world boxing federation’s resolution to mandate gender testing to find out the eligibility of female and male boxers.
In Might, World Boxing stated Khelif, an Algerian boxer, could be banned from all World Boxing competitions till she underwent the necessary check. The choice to mandate testing got here partly as a result of controversy surrounding Khelif after she received a gold medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
On Monday, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport stated in a press release that Khelif was difficult World Boxing’s resolution. It stated the attraction, filed on Aug. 5, additionally requested that CAS declare Khelif eligible to take part within the 2025 World Boxing Championships from Sept. 4-14 with no check.
CAS stated it had dismissed on Monday a request to droop the execution of the World Boxing testing till the case is heard.
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Khelif was one in every of two boxers who sparked a gender eligibility furor on the Paris Video games. The opposite was Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, who has entered to compete on the world championships that begin this week in Liverpool.
Each fighters received Olympic gold medals, however Khelif’s opening bout, when she left her Italian opponent in tears, sparked criticism from a spread of commentators, together with now-U.S. Vice President JD Vance and “Harry Potter” creator J.Ok. Rowling.
Khelif boxed for years on the worldwide stage with none gender points or questions till the yr earlier than the Olympics, when she was disqualified from the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation’s world championships.
Final month, she denied claims made by her former supervisor that she was placing her profession on maintain.
“I wish to make it clear to the general public that the studies of my retirement from boxing are false,” the 26-year-old wrote on Fb.
She accused her former supervisor, Nasser Yesfah, of “betraying (her) belief and (her) nation together with his false and malicious statements.”
“This individual now not represents me in any manner,” she stated.
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