2024 Summer Olympics boxing controversy
The boxing controversy at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris involved two female boxers: Algerian Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan. Their eligibility to compete in the women's boxing events at the Paris Olympic Games was questioned after allegedly failing unspecified sex verification tests, a decision that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) subsequently criticised as "sudden and arbitrary". Both athletes had previously been disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women's World Championships by the Russian-run International Boxing Association (IBA). The IBA claimed the disqualifications were based on unspecified "gender tests", which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later determined were "completely arbitrary", "illegitimate", and "lacked credibility." In the lead-up to the Paris Games, the IOC cleared both athletes to compete.
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